Job description
Our client is looking for a Senior Interaction Designer to join our team on a 60 – 90 day contract. You have at least 5 years of relevant design experience, including designing for mobile, voice, and emerging technologies and feel comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative, creative agency environment. You are well versed in modern user research methodologies, understand how to craft a research plan, and have experience leading user research.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
-Serve as Interaction Design Lead on client-facing projects and direct the work of Interaction Designers on your team
-Apply user-centered design process to solve problems in contexts that have little precedence Inspire teams with your vision for future user experiences
-Uncover key user motivations, needs, tasks and expectations
-Lead brainstorming and concepting sessions internally and with clients
-Lead lab-based and ethnographic user research and analysis activities
-Develop user experience strategy, vision, and conceptual UI models
-Develop use cases, personas, scenarios and storyboards, detailed specifications, and prototypes
-Collaborate closely with visual and motion designers
QUALIFICATIONS:
-5+ years designing effective interfaces for mobile experiences.
-Experience designing for voice, virtual and augmented reality, or wearables is a plus.
-Undergraduate degree in relevant field and/or equivalent work experience.
-Masters degree is a plus
-Experience leading user research (creating test plans, recruiting participants, facilitating field studies, synthesizing results, and extracting insights)
-Able to create clear, concise, innovative design solutions out of ambiguous requirements
-Able to seamlessly communicate designs in different fidelities from sketching to prototypes using tools or code
-Strong interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills
-Sense of humor, positive attitude, humility
WHY US?
We are a human interface design and innovation company headquartered in San Francisco. For fifteen years, we’ve worked with the world’s top companies to envision, design and launch connected products and services that engage customers and transform businesses. We also love the diversity, challenge and satisfaction that come from our projects. Whether envisioning the next autonomous vehicle or working closely with engineers on next year’s hottest wearable, We designs the future. What are you waiting for? Come design the future of everything. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. LOCATION San Francisco, remote COMMITMENT Full-time Come design the future of everything!