Role: UX Designer
Contract:4+months
Location: Seattle, WA
In partnership with the AWS Marketing Insights team, Aditi is seeking a talented, passionate User Experience Designer for developing a web-based portal for internal stakeholders. We are leveraging internal framework to build a best-in-class product that enables our internal stakeholders to consume competitive intelligence produce by the team. This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated person interested in designing innovative, intuitive web applications used by internal customers to discover and consume competitive intelligence analyses and research produced by the team. The ideal candidate knows how to build analytic portal to integrate data, analysis, and research to provide a unified web-based experience. An unfailing passion and capacity to advocate on behalf of our users is an absolute must; this role will significantly impact the user experience of thousands of internal customers to.
Responsibilities
• Quickly yet thoroughly create process flows, wireframes, and visual design mockups as needed to effectively conceptualize and communicate detailed interaction behaviors.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to help define business and feature requirements via empirical online data, usability findings, market research, and proven UCD principles.
• Assess and optimize the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in usability testing and interpreting analytics data.
• Present design work to the user experience team, product team,executives for review and feedback
• Contribute to user interface design and development best practices and standards.
• Provide leadership in the area of competitive intelligence, web application design, and user interface innovations.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills including the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
• Self-starter who is a customer-obsessed, detail-oriented, and enthusiastic team player.
• Ability to work with highly technical teams and handle multiple projects in an agile, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to prototype in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, or Flash highly desired.
Basic Qualifications
• 6+ years industry experience providing interaction design solutions for web and/or software applications.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.
• Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Visio, and Dreamweaver.
• A strong online portfolio demonstrating past work experience and relevant, user-centered design solutions is required.
