TalentMovers

• Title: UX designer
• Location: Chicago, IL (3 Days On-site in a week)
• Rate: On c2C
• Need Portfolio (Mandatory)

Job Responsibilities:

·       Lead collaborative efforts to define and frame complex product concepts or needs with peer roles and generate multiple potential compelling solutions to advance the product direction.

·       Contribute to the development of both business metrics and experience success metrics, promoting harmony and alignment between them.

·       Actively collaborate with PMs to implement highest value improvement opportunities ascertained from customer and market insights that help users connect more effectively with products.

·       Analyze and synthesize complex research and test findings to identify novel insights, considering multiple sources of information before drawing conclusions.

·       Appropriately weigh research and test findings against other data points (e.g., technical, business) to make informed design decisions and determine the right solution.

·       Design user interactions that optimize user engagement, product performance, and business impact.

·       Find and implement creative solutions that  enhance accessible and inclusivity to address diverse user needs.

·       Use awareness of visual, interaction, and UI design trends to create innovative design concepts and narratives, adapting the design process as-necessary to accomplish goals.

·       Define simple, elegant, trustworthy experiences and hold the team accountable to a high quality bar.

·       Collaborate strategically with developers to ensure seamless implementation and understand the nuance between hard tech-contraints and opportunities to challenge conventions.

·       Demonstrate expertise in utilizing latest design tools, technologies, and best-practices.

·       Contribute reusable and scalable components to the design system, including inventing new components, and drives consistency in brand experience across all touchpoints.

·       Comprehensively evaluate the system of connections and the library of tools and methodologies available to arrive at the optimal solution.

·       Convincingly communicate narratives through storytelling, lead cross-functional collaboration, and influence decision-making and senior stakeholders.

Job Description:

• Degree in User Experience Design or a related design field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 6+ years of professional experience working in User Experience Design or a related design field.
• Experience translating product requirements into design strategy and then acting on that strategy to deliver proposed design solutions which meet those requirements.
• Experience partnering with UX Researchers and leveraging research insights to inform design decisions.
• Experience mapping customer journeys and leveraging user stories and personas to inform design strategy.
• Experience crafting design deliverables at various fidelities, including wire frames. mockups and prototypes.
• Experience leveraging design systems and shared component libraries to ensure consistency and increase velocity.
• Experience collaborating with and presenting to a range of diverse stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Content and Research.
• Ability to work successfully through ambiguity.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong attention to design and visual detail.
• Knowledge of current design tools and software.
• Experience in designing for human diversity (internationalization, localization, accessibility, etc.)A portfolio showcasing design skills representative of your work at each stage of a product life cycle, from conception to release, that details the team, thought processes, successes, and pivots along the way.