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RQ10163 - UX Designer - Senior

Responsibilities:

  • Create effective, user-friendly, and visually appealing interfaces.
  • Design the overall functionality of the product to ensure a great user experience, iterating upon it in accordance with user testing.
  • Design user interfaces for various projects such as digital displays, publications, media, and other creative materials as required.
  • Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate the designs.
  • Conceive and conduct user research, interviews, and surveys, translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.

General Skills:

  • Relevant experience creating GUI designs based on user interaction and performance.
  • Experience as a UX designer, interactive designer, UI designer, or similar role, designing for web and mobile applications.
  • Proficiency with design and prototyping tools.
  • Thorough understanding of the limitations and appropriate use of web development technologies.
  • Experience in designing online programs with emphasis on the emotional aspects of human experience.
  • Experience conceiving and conducting user research, interviews, and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, user journey maps, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
  • Experience designing the overall functionality of the product, iterating upon it in accordance with user testing.
  • Experience designing and delivering wireframes, user stories, user flows, user journeys, mockups, and prototypes optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
  • Experience facilitating the clients product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping, and user-testing experiences for digital products.
  • Experience identifying design problems and devising elegant solutions.
  • Experience making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core and new functions and features.
  • Experience gathering user feedback to configure existing interfaces.
  • A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, managing competing priorities, and client relationship management experience.

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:
  • Facilitating user experience design research through various methods, such as user interviews, diary studies, usability testing, tracking usability metrics, A/B testing, and card sorting.
  • Synthesize research findings into insightful and concise user research documents, such as user journey maps, personas, service blueprints, and affinity maps.
  • Conduct design thinking workshops and activities to lead project teams in ideating on solutions to complex product and service design-related problems.
  • Knowledge about service design methods to provide high-level documentation of both the front-end user experiences and the back-end infrastructure and service processes that support them.
  • Strong communication skills to prepare documentation, including reports, reviews, and assessments.
  • Experience working in an agile, sprint-based development environment.
  • Understanding and working knowledge of iterative product development cycles (Discovery, Agile, Beta, Live).
  • Experience with Figma user interface design software.
  • Experience designing interfaces with a design system.

Skill Set Requirements:

User Experience / Product Design:
  • Facilitating user experience design research through various methods, including user interviews, diary studies, usability testing, tracking usability metrics, A/B testing, and card sorting.
  • Synthesize research findings into insightful and concise user research documents, such as user journey maps, personas, service blueprints, and affinity maps.
  • Conduct design thinking workshops and activities to lead project teams in ideating on solutions to complex product and service design-related problems.
  • Knowledge about service design methods to provide high-level documentation of both front-end user experiences and back-end infrastructure and service processes.
  • Lead design ideation and deliver design deliverables such as service design blueprints, information architecture, wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes.
  • Deliver functional, accessible, usable, and aesthetically-pleasing user interfaces.
  • Collaborate with Business, Product, and Development teams by facilitating product and service design vision and concept.
  • Practice ego-free design, being open to giving and receiving feedback, and supporting other designers.
  • Utilize pragmatic, thoughtful design approaches; think critically about the value design activities bring to a project, strategizing based on organizational needs rather than textbook solutions.
Communications:
  • Strong communication skills to prepare documentation, including reports, reviews, and assessments.
  • Ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively, maintaining a high level of customer service to both internal and external clients.
  • Ability to communicate designs and development clearly and understandably.
  • Ability to communicate with technical experts and business subject matter experts to elicit key information relevant to user experience and service design.
  • High emotional intelligence skills, with the ability to discern between various stakeholders interests and find reasonable compromises.
  • Strong mentoring and coaching abilities; ability to convey design concepts and methods to team members and stakeholders outside of design professions.
Agile Product Development:
  • Experience working in an agile, sprint-based development environment.
  • Understanding and working knowledge of iterative product development cycles (Discovery, Agile, Beta, Live).
  • Experience collaborating and sharing design tasks with multiple designers on complex product deliveries.
  • Ability to conceptualize design tasks as part of a greater product development team, understanding the impacts design deliverables have on other aspects of product delivery.

Experience:

  • Experience with medium-to-large sized product development/service design projects.
  • Experience dealing with designing services and products that deal with large organizational complexity.
  • Experience with leading strategy and execution on product/service discovery.
  • Experience with Figma user interface design software.
  • Experience designing interfaces with a design system.