Senior User Experience Designer

We are recruiting a Senior User Experience Designer to join our team on a remote opportunity.

Senior User Experience Designer will lead a growing team of talented design professionals, providing mentorship to broaden their skills and manage their career growth. Proficiency with Sketch, InVision, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Zeplin,â?¯etc.

 

Essential Qualification:

• 6 years or more design experience
• Grad Bsc / BTech, BA (Post grad strongly recommended)
• Computer science
• Psychology
• Cognitive and/or Behavioral Science
• Information Technology
• Portfolio of UX-focused work samples for web and mobile applications

Preferred Qualification:

• Professional HCI / UX / Design Thinking certifications are advantageous
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, and modern JS libraries/frameworks
• Experience designing for omni-channel services a big plus
• An advanced degree in a relevant field, e.g. design, innovation, etc.
• Experience spreading the gospel of design through teaching, publishing, speaking etc.

Experience required:

• 6 years or more design experience
• Design certification from accredited design school
• Portfolio of UI-focused work samples for web and mobile applications
• Professional HCI / UX / Design Thinking certifications are advantageous
• Knowledge of Java script and other modern JS libraries/frameworks
• Experience designing for omni-channel services a big plus
• An advanced degree in a relevant field, e.g. design, innovation, etc.
• Experience spreading the gospel of design through teaching, publishing, speaking etc

Essential functions:

• Proficiency with Sketch, InVision, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Zeplin,â?¯etc.
• Lead a growing team of talented design professionals, providing mentorship to broaden their skills and manage their career growth
• Collaborating on user experience planning with technical leads and product owners
• Build strong relationships with client stakeholders 
• Understand scope, requirements, and drive innovative solutions aligned with business goals and metrics
• Crafting UX and Service design strategies, processes, policies and methodologies
• Champion user testing, surveys, and formal evaluations, as well as iterate work based on quantitative data and qualitative feedback
• Demonstrate expertise in creating compelling design artefacts (user stories, personas, sitemaps, wireframes, prototypes, storyboards etc.), that bring complex solutions to life creatively, efficiently and powerfully
• Reinforce consistent design patterns across platforms and adherence to principles
• Lead/drive projects, anticipate challenges, and meet deadlines
• Advocate for the end-user throughout the development process and work effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure that designs are successfully created and implemented to achieve the user goals 
• In-depth understanding of product development life cycles and methodologies (Agile, Lean, etc.)
• Self-motivated, a good communicator, and able to balance quality deliverables with tight deadlines
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and enthusiastic about working in a culture of critique and iteration with all team members
• Excellent written and verbal communication in order to present your ideas and communicate every aspect of your designs
• Flexibility and adaptability - as a UX designer you will be required to wear many hats
• Empathy for users an absolute must
• Ability to work as a team with fellow UI/UX designers, developers, stakeholders and the like
• Problem-solving ability with a knack for both creative and critical thinking
• Passionate and intimately knowledgeable about design standards in UX and service design both for web and mobile
• Entrepreneurial bias for action with ability to resolve problems with limited resources and input

Travel:

• Remote work