Job Summary

We are looking for a UI/UX Designer to work with our design team. Our designers are responsible for understanding user needs, advocating for the customer, and rapidly ideating variations in order to meet user needs. Our ideal candidate is proficient at distilling complex processes into simple diagrams, user flows, wireframes, and is practiced at documenting design thinking. They follow best practices, validate their hypotheses with data and/or research, and value engineering and product input on iterative approaches to product design. You are passionate about improving the utility, usability and desirability of software and can juggle working on multiple products. We are looking for team members who value exploration and variation, who speak candidly, obsess over the details, and who fiercely advocate for the user.

Duties & Responsibilities

• UX strategy, documentation, execution, validation and UI implementation.
• Collaborate on task teams, playing to individual strengths, to support multiple products
• Design ideal customer-centric experiences while also providing iterative short-term approaches.
• Advocate for the user. Develop deliverables such as sketches, wireframes, mockups, user flows, and interactive prototypes in order to meet business needs and user requirements.
• Translate business, technical and user requirements into compelling, usable designs for web responsive and mobile app solutions.
• Implement the strategy, planning and execution of UX and UI related design activities.
• Use lightweight research methods to test and validate macro and micro interactions.
• Participate in strategic planning as well as talent recruitment and development.
• Understand the user, the content, and the context to deliver good UX then leverage user feedback, site analytics and industry best practices to improve upon that experience.

Requirements & Skills

• 3+ years of product design and UX experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in visual design, human computer interaction (HCI) or related field or equivalent work experience.
• A portfolio of your work.
• Examples of UX process documentation.
• Experience building prototypes with Sketch and Invision.
• Proficient with Agile tools (Atlassian, Jira and Confluence).
• Expert with design tools (e.g. InVision, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.).
• Expert in responsive and adaptive design. Experience with software accessibility and or WCAG accessibility standards a plus.
• Excellent instinct with digital copy.