Description:
About Ascendion
Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next. Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life
We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:
- Build the coolest tech for world’s leading brands
- Solve complex problems - and learn new skills
- Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
- Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience
- Experience a community of change makers!
Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.
About the Role:
Job Title: User Experience Designer
Requirement Qualifications:
- Visualize ideas using professional design tools as well as sticky notes, sketch boards, whiteboard markers or whatever tools are necessary to rapidly work through ideation and move to the next stage.
- Initiate and respond to ideas for innovation/improvements based on research, analysis, and competitive reviews.
- Identify user needs and business requirements.
- Substantiate design approach with analysis & projections for improvements.
- Ensure digital customer touch points become and remain consistent with United’s user experience and brand standards.
- Develop intuitive, usable, and engaging interactions.
- Drive the design of next generation, navigation schemes, patterns, components and templates across the company’s products, insuring a consistent, appealing, and dynamic customer experience.
- Create low and high fidelity interactive prototypes adhering to a rapid, iterative and collaborative process.
- Work with usability researchers to design test plans and iterate designs throughout user testing. Translate usability research findings into design improvements.
Qualifications:
- Solid grasp of web design principles and a good understanding of front-end web technologies required.
- Excellent understanding of user experience design for the Web, mobile, and touch devices required
- Ability to coordinate, prioritize, and accomplish multiple tasks in a fast-paced atmosphere with minimal supervision required.
- Experience in writing detailed design specifications (IA, work flow, page functionality and layout, etc.), which technology developers use to build the product required.
- Must be a self-starter that can create schedules and define scope of work even when there are no clear requirements and direction required.
- Strong ability to communicate your design, defend your design decisions, and respond quickly to business needs required.
- Proven ability to set the design direction for your projects and to collaborate with other designers working in the space required.
- A team player who can easily adapt in a rapidly changing environment required.
- 5+ years professional UX design experience required
- 8+ years professional UX design experience preferred
Skills:
- Experience with best practices for User Interface Design, Information Architecture, and Interaction Design
- Great communication skills and experience working in multi-disciplinary highly collaborative teams
- Experience working with digital entertainment and media technology development companies
- Experience designing for accessibility and inclusivity
- Working knowledge of Figma and other related software
Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid)
Salary Range: The salary for this position is $120k - 130k annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits: We offer a professional work environment, training, growth and advancement. Competitive compensation and a benefits package including a medical, dental, and vision plan, voluntary benefits including life, short-term and long-term disability, 401(k) savings plan with company match, holiday pay.
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