User Experience/User Interface Designer

Reference Nr.:
9154JM

Industry:
Food Industry

Location:
Lausanne and Region

Start:
ASAP

Duration:
Until end of the year +

Introduction:
For one of our clients near Lausanne we are looking for an experienced User Experience/User Interface Designer.

Role:
Your main tasks will be:

- Lead aspects of user experience and interface designs including: research, business & user needs analysis, wireframing, usability testing, high fidelity mockups and post-deployment.
- Act as a user experience evangelist within diversely skilled project teams
- Align interactive and design initiatives with business vision, strategy and deployment
- Initiate, drive and deliver effective experiences in partnership with cross-functional teams to ensure all aspects of the programs are communicated, supported and delivered to the highest standards
- Align business requirements, user centered design methodology and technology factors to help create low and high fidelity interactive prototypes for the purposes of validating business requirements and conducting usability testing
- Develop wireframes, screen-flow diagrams & UI specification documentation as needed
- Engage business and technical team stakeholders for feedback and validation
- Assist with validating and measuring user experience success via usability testing and post deployment evaluations
- Innovate: Build things that people will blog and Twitter about
- Establish strong link with all bioscientists, bioinformatics analysts and other software and vendor partners, and deliver documented designs to the NIHS

Requirements:

Must-Have:
- 5-7 years background in Human-Computer Interaction, Information Science, Computer Science required with a portfolio demonstrating UX and UI work
- Proficient in one or some of the following applications and systems: Visio, Adobe Photoshop, Omni Graffle, QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Illustrator
- A solid understanding of user centered design principles

Nice to have:
- Outstanding creativity. Ability to help colleagues define and solve the most complex communication problems.
- Relentless attention to detail, a gifted eye for aesthetics, and the ability to quickly grasp and distill highly complex matters
- Demonstrated ability to define new approaches to complex design problems and convey solutions in the form of presentations, wireframes, click through prototypes, and design specifications.

Languages:
- English (speaking/writing)
- French is an advantage