About KG Lewis

KG Lewis is built on 16 successful years of helping businesses of all kinds navigate change, challenge, and transformation. Our consultants are pros in agile project delivery, program offices, post-M&A integration, and a wide range of technology disciplines. When our customers can’t afford to fail, we’re at our best.

Cultural impact. Business impact. Career impact. What unites our diverse team of professionals is a passion for constant learning, solving problems, transforming businesses, and making the world a better place inside and outside the office. If this sounds like you, let’s talk!

KG Lewis offers a great benefits package as well as a culture that supports continuous learning and career development. We offer all of our employees access to industry-leading training platforms and technology-focused research tools to help them personally and professionally in their careers.

Position Location

Denver, CO

Position Title

User Experience Lead

Position Summary

KG Lewis is seeking a temporary, project-based talented User Experience Lead. The ideal candidate should have an eye for clean and artful design, possess superior UI/UX skills, and be able to translate high-level requirements into pleasing, user-friendly, intuitive, consistent, and functional user interfaces. This is a temporary project-based role that may require some short-term travel. This is an ideal role for a candidate who is established as an independent User Experience Lead with experience interfacing with clients.

Responsibilities

• Shadow and interview users to understand their pain points and needs
• Be the advocate of the users
• Craft journey maps of the user experience (consistency, # of clicks, conformity of field names, response times of screens, record level of happiness, etc.) across process design and from the results of testing of the new applications during the sprints
• Advocate for the users while partnering with the development/integration teams to achieve consistency based on the journey maps
• Work with the change lead, process design lead and trainer to inject user experience consistency into deliverables
• Collaborate with engineering to implement solutions for the UI/UX design and experience
• Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering
• Conceptualize ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
• Effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
• Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders
• Partner with team members to conduct user research and evaluate user feedback
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven UI/UX experience
• Strong user research experience
• Demonstrable design skills with a strong portfolio
• Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
• Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, or other visual design and wire-framing tools
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for rapid prototyping
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction
• Ability to work with all levels of the organization, from billing and payroll to schedulers, field staff, corporate employees, HR, IT, Finance, dev, etc.
• Ability to present designs and sell solutions to various stakeholders
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
• Up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
• BS/MS in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or related
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Consulting or client project-based work experience preferred
• Healthcare industry experience preferred
• Must be detail-oriented, highly organized, and a self-starter
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Professional and poised appearance and demeanor
• Ability to travel for brief periods of time
• Ability to carry a flexible workload – this position may have part-time weeks and full-time weeks

KG Lewis is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of age, race, sex, color, religion, veteran status, genetic information, national origin, disability or any other status protected by state or local law. It is KG Lewis’s intention that all qualified applicants are given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for non-U.S. citizens.