Senior UX / UI Designer

Title: Senior UX / UI DesignerDuration and job type: 6 months (Contract-to-hire / FTE)Remote ( must reside in any of these states - CA / CO / DE / FL / GA / IN / MA / MD / MN / NC / NH / NJ / NY / OH / PA / TX / WA )

• The UI Designer will be responsible for creating the best user experience and product design in collaboration with product managers and engineers.
• Deliverables include various UX Design artifacts such as user behavior research, personas, customer journeys, pain point analysis, sketches, wireframes, user testing, information architecture, design comps, and prototypes.
• In addition, this position will be responsible for educating various departments across the organization in user experience design, methodologies and design thinking.

• Take ownership and improve the User Experience for our suite of Software as a Service products.
• Advocate and responsibly educate across the organization in UX design methodologies and design thinking.
• Lead UX Design activities such as contextual inquiry, user testing, user analytics, and workshops.
• Deliver intuitive flow diagrams, sketches, wireframes, mockups, prototypes interaction storyboards, and other web and mobile design deliverables that guide creative, content, and development efforts.
• Practice a highly efficient, iterative design process with light documentation
• Drive design discussions and collaborative workshops with teams and stakeholders, helping generate concepts and inspire peers and teams.
• Play a senior role in the delivery of outstanding experiences and results, working collaboratively within a cross-disciplinary team that includes product management, product engineers, and developers.
• Provide interaction/visual guidelines and specification with wireframes and comps to development teams including working with offshore teams.
• Confidently present design decisions to teams and stakeholders, articulating and rationalizing needs against user insights and business goals.
• Assist in the planning and estimating of design activities, participating in broader work stream coordination and expectation setting.
• Maintain an awareness of industry and UX trends, sharing with peers and the broader community and leveraging them within the design lifecycle

• Six or more years of progressive as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role.
• UX design experience for software and web applications which leverage emergent technologies and mobile devices
• An exceptional portfolio demonstrating design thinking, expertise and innovation, including customer journey diagram, sketches, comp designs, and wireframes for multiple form factors and platforms (Please share a link to your portfolio when submitting your resume.)
• Experience designing for complex, interactive web based software products and mobile apps/
• Expert to create wireframes as well as visual design comps.
• Expert knowledge of user-centered design principles, web design best practices, visual trends and emerging web technologies.
• Experience in leading and facilitating design thinking workshop, collaborative design, or sketching workshops.
• Experience designing for multiple devices and responsive design.
• Expert at Adobe Creative Suite, Invision, Axure, Sketch, and/or other UX design and prototyping tools.

• Ability to convert design comps to HTML5 and CSS is a plus
• Experience with agile software development methodologies, in particular Scrum.
• Knowledge of the agile/lean UX methodologies and keep up to date on your craft and practice.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• B.S. degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human Factors & Usability, or related field or other relevant experience; Master's Degree preferred