Senior User Experience Designer

We are a custom software design and development company. We help clients succeed by measurably impacting the world around us through technology.

Primary Responsibilities (Project Work)

• Provide strategy and execution for a variety of clients and project types
• Craft project plans and complete design effort scoping
• Lead projects of all shapes and sizes independently or as a team for multiple clients.
• Ensure a high quality of work from each designer on a project team
• Collaborate effectively with developers and other designers to craft solutions for a variety of different platforms and industries
• Work effectively within technical, creative, and budgetary constraints
• Conduct business discovery and user research to understand requirements and generate insights that shape the UX strategy and design decisions
• Facilitate collaborative client discovery and design workshops
• Analyze, evaluate, and organize digital content based on users’ mental models of a system or domain
• Design usable and compelling interactions for websites, mobile applications, native applications, and more
• Prototype, test, and iterate on designs
• Evaluate the usability of existing systems as well as preliminary designs
• Present research, strategy, and design work to clients for review
• The Senior UX Designer may be expected to perform job-related duties and requirements not listed above

Secondary Responsibilities (Company Support)

• Provide assistance to sales during the up-front information gathering process by crafting the UX approach for client opportunities
• Mentor fellow team members on client work
• Support hiring efforts by participating in candidate interviews, design challenge reviews, and design challenge workshops
• Experiment with new tools and design methods to help us continually evolve our design practice

Skills and Qualifications:

• Track record of successfully leading and managing complex project engagements
• Ability to quickly and efficiently identify and prioritize requirements across multiple projects
• Possesses critical and creative thinking skills while maintaining close attention to detail
• Ability to pivot and provide varied project approaches as necessary
• Can communicate clearly and concisely through both written and verbal means
• Demonstrated understanding of user-centered design principles
• Ability to facilitate client interactions
• Ability to conduct research techniques such as: usability testing, card sorting and contextual inquiry
• Experienced in developing prototypes at varying levels of fidelity
• Portfolio showcasing experience in designing digital products and/or services
• Expert-level proficiency with a variety of design tools including Adobe Creative Suite, Keynote, OmniGraffle, Axure or equivalent software programs
• Possess a high aptitude for learning

Education and Experience:

• Five or more years of user experience design for software, Web applications, and other emerging technologies.
• Academic background in a related field, such as Design, HCI, Psychology, or commensurate work experience.