What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior User Experience Researcher position at Diversified Systems.com?
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Description:
Diversified Systems is searching for a Senior User Experience Researcher to design and lead discovery and usability testing sprints identifying opportunities for innovation to improve the caseworker experience and workload under new work requirements in eligibility and compliance processes at Client and county offices. This includes conducting user research through interviews, shadowing, and observation of frontline staff; analyzing current systems and data flows; and mapping the end-to-end user journey. The goal is to uncover pain points and inefficiencies, and produce actionable outputs including a journey map, user stories, and research artifacts to inform a prioritized roadmap of automation opportunities to reduce staffing burdens and modernize operations in anticipation of upcoming federal regulation changes.
The expert will communicate insights to cross-functional teams; working with the project, design, and development teams, product managers, and program staff on implementing the modifications to production.
Develop strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders to understand their challenges and constraints in a unique, public-sector environment; represent the voice of the user.
Requirements:
Founded in 1990, Diversified Systems is an award-winning Technology Services corporation providing all levels of IT project consulting services nationwide. DSI is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with regional offices in the American Midwest and East Coast. We offer our consultants a number of flexible and competitive compensation benefit packages.
Diversified Systems is committed to the principles of equal employment. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
DSI values authenticity and is committed to making sure our employees and partners are valued and respected. At DSI, we believe building a diverse culture is important because we know when people work together, we can achieve better results as a team. DSI realizes that everyone comes from various backgrounds. We celebrate these differences because our employees are our greatest asset as we strive to best meet the needs of those we serve. As part of our ongoing efforts, DSI is focused on advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion by setting high standards to continually evolve our culture. This includes but is not limited to recruiting, community involvement, client delivery, and career development.
Description:
Diversified Systems is searching for a Senior User Experience Researcher to design and lead discovery and usability testing sprints identifying opportunities for innovation to improve the caseworker experience and workload under new work requirements in eligibility and compliance processes at Client and county offices. This includes conducting user research through interviews, shadowing, and observation of frontline staff; analyzing current systems and data flows; and mapping the end-to-end user journey. The goal is to uncover pain points and inefficiencies, and produce actionable outputs including a journey map, user stories, and research artifacts to inform a prioritized roadmap of automation opportunities to reduce staffing burdens and modernize operations in anticipation of upcoming federal regulation changes.
The expert will communicate insights to cross-functional teams; working with the project, design, and development teams, product managers, and program staff on implementing the modifications to production.
Develop strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders to understand their challenges and constraints in a unique, public-sector environment; represent the voice of the user.
Requirements:
- Experience in Health and Human Services or Benefits Delivery on Federally funded programs including SNAP, Medicaid, TANF or Unemployment Insurance.
- Deep technical subject matter experience in User Experience (UX) Research and User Centered Design practices.
- 2 years of UX experience, with a focus on building and designing products, platforms, or services at scale.
- Experience building successful product design based on research.
- Experience across the full UX design spectrum, from ideation through execution, including
- information architecture, low-fidelity design, high-fidelity design, design systems, accessibility prototyping and user research.
- Experience building alignment with stakeholders.
- Experience leading design for a product, platform, or service.
- Experience with iterative or agile development methodologies.
- Experience communicating complex information or ideas in an effective manner to foster
- understanding and acceptance of findings and recommendations.
Founded in 1990, Diversified Systems is an award-winning Technology Services corporation providing all levels of IT project consulting services nationwide. DSI is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with regional offices in the American Midwest and East Coast. We offer our consultants a number of flexible and competitive compensation benefit packages.
Diversified Systems is committed to the principles of equal employment. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
DSI values authenticity and is committed to making sure our employees and partners are valued and respected. At DSI, we believe building a diverse culture is important because we know when people work together, we can achieve better results as a team. DSI realizes that everyone comes from various backgrounds. We celebrate these differences because our employees are our greatest asset as we strive to best meet the needs of those we serve. As part of our ongoing efforts, DSI is focused on advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion by setting high standards to continually evolve our culture. This includes but is not limited to recruiting, community involvement, client delivery, and career development.