User Experience Architect

e.biT Consulting is a boutique-style IT Staffing Company specializing in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placement opportunities. Our focus is understanding your technology, business, environment and company culture, in order to best identify the right fit between our candidates and your staffing needs.

The User Experience Architect will support and report to UX Managers and will work with a multi-discipline design team including user researchers, usability testers, visual designers and front end developers. This critical role will play a key part in defining, shaping and crafting digital solutions by delivering outstanding user-centered designs in support of web and mobile experiences.

* Provide input on plans for delivery and release schedules for the UX disciplinary track * Perform competitive analysis, market assessments and heuristic evaluations of the business-to-business marketplace * Ability to quickly capture and assimilate information from a variety of sources; responsible for translating business requirements and user needs into innovative design solutions that are engaging, valuable and usable. * Distill goals, constraints and risks into well thought-out plans. Prioritize tasks, manage expectations, mitigate risks and offer creative approaches to achieving design solutions even in the context of challenging constraints. * Create project briefs, presentations, user flows, site maps, taxonomies, wireframe specifications and other necessary documentation to communicate the recommended user experience to internal stakeholders and development teams. * Collaborate with user research on activities like usability studies to understand customer behavior, refine design approaches, and validate solutions. * Strategize with team members and product managers to take action on research findings. * Brainstorm, research, wireframe, design, and iterate user experiences within specified product requirements and deadlines. * Work closely with a cross-functional team that includes developers, system architects, product managers, subject matter experts and program managers.

* 3+ years experience in user interface design, information architecture, interaction design, human factors, and other related UX disciplines. * BS/BA degree in design, technology, psychology, human factors or HCI is preferred. * Experience with complex e-commerce businesses, must have a strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience and deliverables (eg: wireframes, user flows, site maps, research, etc.) * Demonstrated ability to develop big ideas, and execute flawlessly against them in a highly collaborative environment. Ability to define and lead strategic and complex transactional interfaces. * Ability to employ pragmatic and effective approaches to UX. Keen understanding of usability principles, web standards, UI patterns and their application. Experience using web analytics data to inform design decisions. * Proven ability to diplomatically advocate for the user, communicate informed design rational and value, as well as manage related expectations, culture and process changes.