User Experience Designer (Remote)

UX Designer (Remote)

Experience – 6 to 10 years

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

· Partner closely with Product and Engineering to distill complex problems and propose simple, elegant design solutions 

· Design impactful user interfaces, clever and effective interaction patterns which help establish digital process familiarity

· Research, define and maintain user personas, user mental models, and user journey maps  

· Develop and maintain design principles, style guide and pattern library to be used in all design, prototyping, and front-end engineering functions 

· Translate from sketch to specs complex business workflows into user flows, wireframes, interaction models, hi-fi user interface prototypes, and engineering ready delivery assets following the Agile development process.

· Be the customer advocate to drive relentless focus on the user and their desires, thinking, constraints, opportunities. 

· Plan appropriate type and execute necessary customer research including: Concept, Heuristic, Usability, A/B Testing

· Using design thinking techniques collaborate across various stakeholders to influence strategy and roadmap 

· Constantly improve technical acumen to maintain awareness of current and emerging front-end code capabilities and constraints across all standards to ensure technical business needs are met while maintaining a strong focus on the user experience

Qualifications, Skills, and Requirements:

· Worked to design UX/UI software solution for backend business like retool, wix, wordpress, webflow etc

· Very strong data visualization skills

· Ability to present design ideas clearly and effectively to help stakeholders make decisions.

· Understanding and hands on experience with UX research methodologies and ability to execute them if needed.

· Working experience either Figma, Sketch, Adobe CS, and InVision

· Practical understanding of the latest technologies used to build rich web, desktop, and mobile apps (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, React, APIs) 

· Extremely high attention to detail in planning, managing, producing, and polishing design deliverables 

· Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills

· Ability to prioritize effectively 

· Excellent organizational and time management skills

· Enjoys being part of a small team with a big mission

Education, Training, and Experience:

· Hands on Designer Experience with solid technical background

8 to 12 years of demonstrated experience solving complex design problems for Web or software solutions for data intensive and transaction-oriented applications

· Deep understanding of Design principles and their application

· Experience in direct, hands-on collaboration with developers, business analysts, product managers 

· Expertise in defining and implementing user experience design and brand guidelines

· Experience in conceptual development and rapid creative prototyping as well as tactical UI design and implementation

· Solid experience with all phases of UX process: sketching, wireframing, prototyping, site mapping, user journey mapping, user flows, user testing