User Experience Designer

Major Purpose Leverages user experience research insights and recommendations to accelerate discussions and decisions early in the product development process. Applies internal/external standards and best practices to create tangible visualizations that serve as the blueprint for product team to turn a concept into a solution, while ensuring they stay consistent with brand standards.

Work at this level is of moderate complexity covering either a single user class with several personas or multiple user classes with a limited set of personas per user class. Designs cover multiple product lines in a single platform and enable moderately complex but serial user interactions. Designs typically consist of moderately complex modifications to existing solutions.

Major Duties

• Creates and designs elements or components resulting in high quality user experience designs.
• Incorporates branding and common design guidelines into products.
• Creates wireframes, mock-ups, prototypes and specifications.
• Maintains style guides for varying methods of delivery.
• Follows appropriate design methodology, tools, and protocols to conduct user-centered design.
• Translates analytics data into visual designs to support interpretation and generation of insights or vice versa.

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge

• Possesses working knowledge of core user interface languages.
• Technical skill and knowledge in a specialized area of engineering, e.g., design, analysis, test, evaluation, etc.
• Skill in interpersonal communications, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to deliver production-ready, clean and usable digital user interfaces across multiple form factors.
• Figma experience is needed

Education

• Degree in an Information Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
• Degree in a Marketing discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
• Miscellaneous degree or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)

Work Experience

• Product design experience. (1 - 3 years)
• Work experience in a team environment. (1 - 3 years)
• Internal or external industry specific experience in relevant discipline. (1 - 3 years)
• Experience facilitating workshops on specific need(s) for the job, discipline, function, unit, etc. (Less than 1 year)