Sr UX Interaction Designer

unication of design - via wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and user stories

• Champions user research and constantly evaluates of emerging design concepts, technology, industry, and market trends

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Interaction, Graphic, or Industrial Design preferred or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)

• A minimum of 3-5 years of professional experience in product or service design

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be willing to travel

Desired Characteristics:

Technical Expertise:

• Uses participatory design activities (e.g., paper (or digital) prototype co-creation, card sorting) to understand vision, business model and assumptions and tacit knowledge about user needs and behaviors.

• Understands how to work within an established design system and how to extend and an establish new standards in a collaborative environment.

• Conducts user research to understand user needs, mental models and working contexts

• Synthesizes output of stakeholder research & creates visualizations that effectively summarize key insights related to user and customer needs and behaviors, product definition.

• Creates annotated prototypes or wireframes of user interface designs that visually and textually communicate the behavior of a software application.

• Skilled in standard design & wireframing tools (Figma, Adobe CC, Balsamiq), hand drawing, whiteboarding, and visual communication, time-based and interactive prototyping tools (Figma Prototyping, Miro, Smaply).

Business Acumen:

• Develops knowledge of industrial business domains, products, key processes, suppliers, customers, and market/competitors.

• Understands and stays up to date on the industry's technology landscape; brings new ideas to the team. Maps industry technology trends to internal vision.

• Understands principles of lean design, design thinking, what it is and why it is important. Explores all ideas, regardless of their source.

• Works to create an understanding of how individual people and things fit within larger structures (like systems or organizations), as well as the relationships between parts of a system and the organizations they are within.

Leadership:

• Understands the value of a rigorous, collaborative, and transparent decision-making process.

• Demonstrates sensitivity to key cultural issues.

• Uses generative techniques (sketching, brainstorming, etc.) to establish a variety of possible design decisions and decision scenarios.

• Expresses UX and design concepts to collaborators on cross functional teams. Goes beyond merely presenting designs, explains the story of the rationale and benefit of design ideas.

Personal Attributes:

• Acts and decides appropriately when all available information may not be possible to obtain.

• Is a user centered designer that strives to gather and integrate user feedback in their designs.

• Demonstrates the ability to extract and communicate how customer (user) groups are thinking and feeling.

• Asks questions appropriate to translating an abstract problem into a roadmap for identifying solutions.

• Captures specific information from the audience and validates it back to them for acceptance.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position