Position: UI Designer
Job Purpose: Own the User Experience for major product areas and, working with others, help shape the overall UX direction.
Key Result Areas:
• Gather requirements by talking to users/stakeholders and rapidly creating wireframes that represent the concepts being discussed. Help direct discussions to conceive and later validate UI concepts and metaphors.
• Create low-fidelity wireframes and prototypes. As the project progresses, develop more refined UI representations, including detailed UI specifications.
• Work with Engineering to ensure the technical feasibility of designs and guide the interface through the development process.
• Work with other UI Designers and apply your own UI design skills to the building of proof of concepts and prototypes in a “skunk works" environment, rapidly producing multiple possible approaches for internal use, usability testing, presentation to customers, and sales demos.
• Organize and run usability testing to elicit requirements and verify designs.
Critical Competencies
Functional Expertise:
• 5-8 years of successfully designing enterprise-scale, multi-tier, web-based commercial software applications. Experience with rich-client interfaces; preferably browser-based.
• Past involvement in all phases of the Development process. Capable of being leading contributor to brainstorming sessions to elicit business requirements, creating wireframes, producing finished screens, writing UI specifications, and building prototypes.
• Capable of thinking at a conceptual level, identifying unifying UI metaphors, and working on a dynamically generated, multi-product UI framework.
• Proven track record of producing tangible results, informed by an understanding that commercial software isn’t an academic exercise.
• Experience mentoring and reviewing the work of outside consultants and vendors and working collaboratively to develop UI artifacts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are mandatory. You must be able to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.
• Experience working in an Agile Software Development environment.
• In-depth knowledge of User Interface Design principals, Human Factors, User Centered Design Processes, Interaction Design guidelines, Usability Methodologies, industry standards and trends, platform standards, and the software development process. Equally important is an innate sense of how people perceive and interact with software.
• Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Microsoft Office, and Photoshop/Illustrator or similar.
• Strong desire to learn and develop additional skills and expertise over time.
• Development experience is a plus.
• Degree in a related field is a plus.
Behavioral and Interpersonal:
• Thrives in a collaborative, team-oriented, cross-functional environment.
• Ability to communicate across multiple organizational levels with wide variety of personalities.
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast paced environment.
• Flexibility/adaptability (ability to change direction based upon team and stakeholder consensus).
• Ability to listen and interpret communication into product design.
• Role modeling.
Supervisory Responsibility:
Could be asked to mentor more junior team members
Sphere of Influence:
The successful candidate will be working in a cross functional environment with overlapping responsibilities across multiple internal departments including Product Management, Engineering, Sales and Marketing.
