Job: UX Designer
Location: Merrimack NH or Smithfield RI (2 weeks onsite in a month)
Long term contract
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
Experience
- 7-10+ years of UX or related experience is preferred
- A degree in a related field such as interactive design, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, or human factors is preferred.
- Experience working on agile teams delivering value in digital products preferred.
- Experience running and/or using research to support evidence-focused design decisions preferred..
- A digital portfolio we can review online is required.
Skills
- An array of design skills, which might include visual, conversational, information architecture, prototyping, strategic design methods (such as design thinking), user research.
- Ability to design across all channels including web, native.
- Effective communication as a writer, presenter, and facilitator; equally at ease speaking with developer partners or executives.
- A foundation of development knowledge, both web and mobile
- Familiarity with the value of design systems, understanding reuse and scale, and knowing when to contribute to make them better.
- Partnering with user research to understand the customer problems to tackle.
- Distilling qualitative and quantitative feedback to unearth recurring themes and promote data-driven design decisions.
- An unwavering curiosity to ask why.
- Design brings you happiness.
Principal UX Designers typically:
- Lead definition of the design work and deliver business outcomes across multiple product teams, with minimal guidance and coaching.
- Partner with the product owner to help inform product strategy.
- Partner with developers to collaborative solve problems.
- Work across the organization to drive consistent customer experiences.
- Contribute to the culture of the UXD group.
- Coach and mentor junior designers across the group.
- Provide design and product thought leadership.