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The Design Research Manager will oversee and execute a variety of UX research programs ranging from contextual inquiry, in-depth interviews to interface evaluations and usability testing.  This position will plan and oversee a variety of UX research efforts and will also be expected to provide thought leadership and innovative ideas to drive improvements across the customer experience lifecycle.

SPINS is seeking a dynamic UX Designer to join our SPINS design team. Who we are. For 20 years, our mission has been to increase the presence and accessibility of natural and organic products to encourage healthier and more vibrant living. By leveraging SPINS’ industry-leading proprietary data and analytics, our technology enables deeper, more engaged relationships between Retailers, Brands and Consumers through our platform, web, and mobile

As a UX Developer, you will help us research, design, and build the UI for a platform for discovering nutritional data and analyzing it to provide valuable nuggets to our customers. You will be a vital part of the engineering team in owning the User Experience for the product we are building. You need to be part engineer, researcher, and creative.

Create conversion optimization strategies and have full ownership and accountability for successful execution of key projects. Create journey maps, navigation flows, sitemaps, user stories, wireframes, concept diagrams and personas. Own documentation and tracking of all CRO action items and workflow. Collaborate with cross functional teams (executives, product, creative, content, technology). Think holistically about the entire brand and consumer experience. Continually improve UX/CRO process in collaboration with the business. Leverage metrics, optimization, qualitative and quantitative research to inform and validate design decisions. Analyze results and identify successes, failures and trends, and effectively communicate these findings. Identify and suggest ways to improve efficiencies.

We are looking for an individual who can come in and help drive an overall shift in how Software development is done. Quite often UX is an afterthought at most companies and we are looking for someone who has proven experience in making it one of the key pieces of the conversation from the first conversation with our clients. We realize this type of change has many challenging aspects, it is not only ensuring you have a seat at the table as a part of the initial conversations but also educating Developers, Product Managers, Project Managers on the importance of thinking around UX throughout the entire SDLC.

We are looking an experienced freelance designer, able to fully embrace our company’s brand and design philosophy and translate this to critical sales and marketing design projects. We create powerful tools and data for healthcare and need help telling the world about it.