Sr UX Designer
Greenwood Village, CO
3-6 months Contract & Hire ( C2H)
Visa: GC/USC/GC-EAD/H4EAD
 
What the client is looking for : - UX designer is someone that has a really strong background on research. Ideally have someone doing usability studies, analysis, spreadsheets, surveys.
 
How will you add value on a day-to-day basis?
In this position, you’ll create intuitive modern interfaces. A passion for research and a desire to work with data-driven complex workflows is a must. You should have a knack for simplifying complicated interfaces.
As our ideal candidate, you will have a creative mind and impeccable instinct about what people want. Additionally, you should have a strong understanding of what makes a powerful user experience and pull from common problems to find a pleasing, inspiring solution.
 
How will you add value on a day-to-day basis?

• Ship amazing features, work with team members to stay ahead of issues and make sure projects are delivered on time.
• Conduct research through stakeholder interviews, user research, market research, analytics, observation, surveys, etc
• Stay current on emerging industry trends, and the competitive landscape to provide insight on ways to improve usability, and product functionality
• Lead and facilitate a multi-disciplinary team through each stage of the design process to create visually compelling designs of interactive content and navigation for online and mobile solutions.
• Create interaction models, user task flows, screen designs, and UI details that promote ease of use and optimize task flows.
• Collaborate with project team to clearly define user experience requirements, personas, user scenarios, journey maps.
• Contribute to ideation and sketching sessions, storyboards, prototyping and usability testing to create comprehensive wireframe system.
• Excellent interpersonal communications and presentation skills at review meetings and fosters a friendly critique session in order to come up with a great design. Defends and provides rationalization for design choices to stakeholders.
• Creates and delivers UX design documentation to aid with cross-team communication, collaboration and development.
• Plays an active role in the identification and recommendation of future product improvements through awareness and understanding of metrics, site-wide information architecture and industry best practices.

 
What will make you the ideal candidate?

• BA/BS or MS in Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Cognitive Science
• or equivalent practical experience.
• 2-5 years’ experience as an information architect, interaction designer, or experience designer (or similar role) with application, web and mobile interfaces
• Experience working with Agile methodologies.
• Ability to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization
• A thorough understanding of user-centered design methodologies and processes, including but not limited to, usability testing, persona creation and customer research experience
• Ability to identify opportunities for change, ideate on concepts, advocate for the needs of our customers, and lead design from empathy to iteration to deliver human-centered solutions
• Experience solving complex UX challenges, creating wireframes, and high-quality visual designs
• Solid proficiency with a variety of rapid prototyping and visualization tools (e.g., InVision, Photoshop, Axure, Sketch, Balsamiq, Omnigraffle, etc.)
• A thoughtful communicator as well as outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate and manage expectations to team members on external/internal team needs, deliverables, deadlines, and general technical topics.
• Passion for quality work with an understanding of how to prioritize and make tradeoffs.
• Passion for the field of User Experience; detailed and practical understanding of best practices in user experience design.
• Experience facilitating activities to gather insights on user needs and goals and conducting usability testing.
• Experience finding simple, innovative solutions for complex problems.
• A sense for prioritization and can manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• An understanding of iOS and Android interface design and fundamental patterns along with web
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design for multiple devices