UX/UI Designer
Summary/Objective:
As a UX/UI designer, you will be working on the product experience for Travelers Haven, our full-service corporate relocation software application. You will use your skills in interaction design, visual design, and usability testing, to create various UX designs, from lo-fi wireframes to hi-fi prototypes, to create solutions for our customers. You will be a member of the newly formed product team working with various stakeholders across the company to translate customer feedback into intuitive, user-friendly solutions to create a better online customer experience. Our design department is small and nimble, and you will have an immediate impact on the future of our products.
Essential Functions:
- Take complex design problems and translate technical requirements into simple, elegant UX solutions.
- Collaborate with agile team members from story requirements to development deliverables by creating wireframes, prototypes, low-fidelity and high-fidelity mockup to present solutions to our product and engineering teams to get buy-in on your UX solutions.
- Develop cross-platform web, mobile, and app wireframes.
- Collaborate with Marketing to deliver webpages and customer journeys that drive maximum engagement and lead generation for their campaigns.
- Support the Brand Creative Director to achieve brand goals by assisting in defining, enhancing, and utilizing branded components to create on-brand UI. Be the enforcer and quality control for brand guidelines from a product execution perspective.
- Work and communicate with in-office and remote team members.
- Create usability testing plans to evaluate designs.
Competency:
- High-fidelity wireframe and prototyping experience (i.e. Invision)
- Skilled in using design, wireframing, and use case tools (i.e. Adobe Creative Cloud, Axure RP, usertesting.com)
- Excellent interaction design skills
- Experience moving designs throughout an agile development process, including monitoring and reporting progress in an Agile software program (i.e. Jira)
- Strong interpersonal skills that bridge business stakeholders and product development process
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, to drive the entire team to success
- Tenacity and ability to thrive in situations where one must efficiently make sense of chaos
- Ability to work independently with minimal guidance in a rapidly changing environment
- Service oriented attitude with rapid responsiveness to internal and external requests
- Strong facilitation skills, drive for results, attention to quality and detail, and a collaborative attitude
Required Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in graphic design, marketing, computer science, or other related fields
- 4+ years of UI / UX, graphic, and visual design in a corporate or agency context
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery or AngularJS a plus)
- Experience with Project Management software (i.e. Atlassian stack JIRA)
- Previous experience with IT projects or software projects