Lead a small UX team to design user-centered interfaces for enterprise web and Windows desktop applications. Conduct research and usability testing, create wireframes, prototypes, visual designs, and maintain design systems and component libraries while collaborating with product and engineering through the product lifecycle.
- Were looking for a UX Lead with strong skills in UX/UI Design, excellent communication, and team leadership skills to help us make the performance of complex tasks an intuitive, elegant, and satisfying user experience.
- You will be leading a growing team of innovative and dedicated UX designers and work alongside product teams focused on creating B2B software that is powerful, feature-rich, yet easy to use. What You ll Be Doing: Create user-centered designs for applications and tools through research, user interviews, and usability testing.
- Work with product teams and engineers to design or refine solutions throughout a product lifecycle from concept to launch to continuous improvements.
- Design and develop key interactions, wireframes, user flows, mockups, visual design comps, interactive prototypes and user interface design specifications in a fast-paced environment.
- Efficiently and intelligently iterate designs, adjusting to technical requirements, and incorporating usability findings into the designs. Work within and help refine product brand design guidelines. Create and maintain UX component library, pattern library and style guides. Lead a small team that consists of a product designer and UX researcher.
- Manage UX tools, develop processes, and track projects. 7+ years of experience designing UI/UX improvements for Enterprise Web and Windows Desktop Applications. 2 years of UX lead experience. Portfolio of completed professional design projects that show hands-on UI/UX track record. Bachelor s Degree in design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), or related field.
- Extensive experience conducting user research (observational studies, surveys, and user interviews), performing research analysis, creating supporting UX documentation, building mockups and interactive prototypes, user testing, defining design requirements and maintaining a product design system.
- Demonstrated experience having translated abstract requirements into user workflows, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences. Excellent conceptualization and visual communication abilities. Expert knowledge of Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, Zeplin and other design tools. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Comfortable working remote while collaborating with global remote product teams.
- A solid grasp of user-centered design and testing methodologies, best practices, and usability principles, interaction design and accessibility concerns.
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects. Preferred skills: Experience designing for enterprise applications and/or testing tools with data-intensive UI s. Experience designing for products with large, established customer bases. Experience working in waterfall and Agile development cycles.
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