Job#: 2054637
Job Description:
DETAILED DESCRIPTIONYou are a design professional living at the crossroads of empathy and technology. You will develop thoughtful solutions, taking business needs, technological capabilities, and user feedback into account. You will focus on information architecture, user flow design, and interaction design in support of delivery of high quality, accessible and optimally usable experiences for our end users. You will independently manage your UX work with a given workstream and collaborate on UX activities and deliverables with Technical Product Managers, Project Managers and Engineer partners. You will work closely with a design strategist and/or lead designer to align with our holistic strategy and vision. You will work with Agile sprint teams championing human-centered design and help shape design practices and processes that work best with Agile Methods.
You'll be expected to:
* Be a change agent evangelizing and bringing awareness to human-centered methodologies and practices across the company, supporting cross-functional product teams at different stages of understanding
* Solve complex design problems and drive multiple efforts simultaneously
* Approach each project with consideration for the larger platform experience and business model
* Deeply understand how products connect beyond your own product area and be mindful of touchpoints in the overall user journey across the platform.
* In collaboration with the UX Research team, dive into existing user research, metrics and balance with intuition and sensibility and translate user needs into tangible experiences for our solutions
* Design and build user flows, wireframes, concepts, and interactive prototypes that will be used as the stimuli for research events and will help define development requirements and inform technology decisions
* Confidently present designs to peers, stakeholders and leadership, and articulate rationales behind design decisions
* Build presentations and lead discussions about experience-related aspects of the solution with different stakeholders throughout the organization, focused on feedback and action towards next steps
* Design consistent approaches to patterns founded in research and best practice established from both inside and outside of the organization
* Embrace and evangelize pattern-based system design - UX standards, best practices, styles, patterns and guidelines - as well as contribute to our design system by introducing high-quality, accessible and usable patterns and their appropriate usage
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Required Experience and Skills
* Portfolio that demonstrates your design work in web and mobile solutions. We want to see and understand your process and how you collaborate across functions within the Product Development Lifecycle.
* Bachelor's degree in HCI, Visual Communication, Digital Design, Product Design, Human Centered Design, or related field required. MFA or advanced degree a plus.
* 5+ years work experience in product development, user experience design, product design, creative, or marketing industries.
* Knowledge in software usability principles and current trends and advances in interface design.
* Demonstrated success leading design efforts across multiple products to achieve a central solution.
* Extensive experience creating low and high fidelity sketches and design documentation.
* Strong communication, presentation and analytical skills.
* Advanced knowledge of UX wireframe, visual design, and prototyping software (e.g. Figma, Lucid, Miro, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.)
* In-depth understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
* Deep understanding of responsive design approaches
* High-level understanding of accessibility guidelines and designing for optimal accessibility
* Demonstrated experience working in an Agile environment.
* Understand a target audiences needs and other motivating factors, and translate them into concepts for
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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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