User Experience Designer

We are seeking a talented user experience designer with a passion for creating compelling, innovative, and enjoyable user experiences. You will lead design efforts on a variety of products in a collaborative, fast-paced environment. You will work closely with product owners, usability researchers, engineers, other designers, and developers to create and improve next-generation online experiences.

- This position gives you the chance to innovate and design new products and services. You will define the customer experience for existing and new web and mobile experiences, establishing and/or adhering to conventions and standards.
- You must be able to understand the balance of user experience, business case, and time-to-market, and make trade-offs where appropriate, as you must understand customer needs as well as business and functional requirements.
- You will work closely with user research and product management team to define user experience, user interaction model, workflow, and information architecture. You will work with usability researchers to gather data on the design and iterate, and collaborate with visual designers, content strategists and engineering teams to implement your designs.
- Create storyboards, detailed and comprehensive wireframes, workflows, prototypes, and requirements that effectively communicate the information design and interaction design. Deliver high fidelity schematics, workflows, interaction storyboards, and design deliverables that guide creative, content, and development efforts.
- Confidently present design decisions to teams and stakeholders, articulating and rationalizing needs against user insights and business goals.
- Maintain an awareness of industry and UX trends, sharing with peers and the broader community and leveraging them within the design life cycle

SKILLS:

MINIMUM REQUIRED SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:

- 2+ years working as an interaction designer or information architect for web or mobile software applications.
- BA/BS/Certification in HCI, HCDE or design-related field required, or equivalent work experience in UCD.
- Solid understanding of the fundamentals of user interface design; experience working through the entire product life cycle and direct experience in User-Centered Design process and methodologies.
- Robust knowledge of web and mobile design constraints and nuances. Direct experience designing for multiple platforms.
- Strong verbal and writing skills, with the ability to communicate the value of UX to product, business, and technology leaders. Clear, organized writing, communication and presentation skills. Able to operate in self-directed capacity with minimal oversight.
- Deep experience with broad range of UX research, design and implementation tools (Axure, Balsamiq, Lightroom, Visio, Omnigraffle, Morae, Adobe CS, Invision, etc.)
- Need someone with leadership skills and a good personality. Need to be able to get along with people.