Job description
Lead UX DesignerSalary Range: $120-170K
Hybrid Role: 2-3 days/week on-site
Location: ATL or NYC
This team is helping to set a new standard in big data and FinTech and they are looking for a Lead UX Designer to help small businesses. This company has the best of both worlds: backed by a huge company, but you'll function as a start-up - new ideas welcome!
This particular product's team has a Director of UX, Lead UX, 3 Senior UX Designers and 1 Junior
What you’ll be responsible for:
- Delivering future-thinking, customer-focused designs
- Providing the user experience perspective to product partners
- Leading a design workstream and providing art direction for junior designers
- Leading ideation and creating innovative concepts that meet the product’s business objectives and requirements while helping our customers achieve their goals
- Prioritizing and delegating tasks to other designers
- Presenting and defending your decisions to colleagues with clear explanations, analytics to back it up, and clever reasoning skills
- Understanding of an agile, collaborative process and how to execute when the time comes
- Speaking multiple “languages” while working closely with creative, product, business, strategy and tech from intake to launch and beyond – this means being able to see the big picture, and figure out the small details simultaneously
- Creating POV/review presentations on any user experience, user planning or other UX related topic with appropriate supporting research
- Ensure quality and consistency of UX deliverables including developing site maps, process flows, wireframes, functional specifications; preparing and conducting user validation and/or usability testing sessions and other forms of qualitative and quantitative customer research; and developing user profiles, personas and scenarios
Education/Experience:
- 5+ years of experience designing digital interfaces
- Has been the user experience lead on several major enterprise-level web site projects, from start to finish
- Shows leadership examples and user experience documentation on several major enterprise-level web site development efforts
- Knowledge in experience planning, conducting and performing user experience study activities such as one-on-one interviews, paper-prototyping, concept testing, card sorting, surveys, usability testing, etc. as well as evaluating and compiling the results
- Experience creating design systems, style guides, pattern libraries, and other design solutions that drive design across large organizations
- Experience in information design, interface design, flowcharting, storyboarding, human factors or human computer interaction and usability
- Knowledge of current digital technologies and interactive capabilities across devices
- Experience mentoring junior designers, growing their skillset and charting their career paths
- Thrives in a delivery-focused environment
- Bachelors degree in Design or related field
- Prefers sketching first, computer later
- Have a current understanding of responsive design, mobile interfaces and content management systems
- Be well read in the masters: Krug, Morville/Rosenfeld, Cooper, Nielsen, etc.
- Have a good understanding of general marketing and advertising principles
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