We have partnered with our client in their search for a Senior UI / UX Designer in Columbus, OH or Wilmington DE
Responsibilities
Shape the future of user experience with strategic design initiatives that blend business needs and user insights. As a Senior User Experience Designer within the Operations team, you will help to create meaningful and cohesive end-to-end experiences for our contact center employees. Success in this role comes from understanding the customer and business needs, strong collaboration with your peers, thoughtful planning and coordination across product development teams, taming complexity for our users, and participating in the full range of design practice, from up-front research, insights, and strategy, though to ideation, prototyping, and testing, and to delivery of final designs.
Job responsibilities
Develop and execute design/research strategies for complex projects and ensure alignment with business objectives and user needs across multiple product areas
Participate in upfront user research to better understand user needs and behaviors, and usability testing to see how your solutions work for users, with the support and guidance of Experience Researchers
Develop strong relationships with Sr. Designers, Sr. Content Designers, Sr. Researchers, and Product partners to ensure we think critically about the why, what, and how of project development: Why are we doing this design, what are the problems we need to solve, and how will we do it?
Comfortable in fast-moving, productive daily environment: Able to focus and prioritize tasks, lead projects, set standards, cut through and organize ambiguity to achieve results aligned to business priorities
Collaborate directly with engineering peers, advocating for the user’s perspective
Ideation and prototyping to explore different options, landing on elegant, and even unexpected, solutions that satisfy requirements
Diagram service flows and product features, design wireframes, and prototype interactions for key touchpoints as you lead end-to-end design initiatives within a specific domain.
Present work, connecting design decisions to desired business impact
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate user experience design into the product development processes and ensure seamless and customer-centric solutions
Skills Required
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
7+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in user experience design or similar roles
Can direct self and others in both planning and structuring the work, and executing on expected levels of quality
Prior work involves collaboration within design teams (with other designers, UX researchers, and content designers) and cross-functionally with product managers and software engineers
Advanced skills in Interaction Design, Visual/UI Design, and Information Architecture; Intermediate ability in adjacent skills such as User Research, UX Writing, and Prototyping
Advanced technical literacy, including an advanced understanding of client-side technologies, APIs, microservices, and the components of the technology stack, as well as their impact on user experience
Proven ability to develop experiences that meet or exceed the initial proposal of a product or experience, including the development of transformational innovation strategies and the creation of 'north star' representations to drive customer-centric decision-making
Familiar with system level thinking and design
Comfortable and confident when presenting work to executives
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills
Advocate for Accessibility Guidelines and Inclusive Design practices
Has led design work on successful digital products, demonstrating user- and human-centered design approaches
Familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, frameworks such as React, and mobile UI standards
To be considered for this position, you must have a portfolio available for review.
