UX Designer

Company: Vitamin T
Location: San Diego
Posted on: May 16, 2022

Job Description:

OverviewUX DesignerOur client is seeking a UX Designer to join a diverse group of creative thinkers and doers.Within the department, they see user experience being at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful product experiences that people love to use and welcome into their home or business. We strive to learn and understand our users' needs, behaviors, and emotions to yield insights that inform product strategy and guide the design of the experiences we create.User Experience Design is the discipline of designing both digital and physical experience frameworks. These frameworks provide deep and relevant user-centered insights to drive meaningful experience maps that drive organizational alignment and kickstart physical and digital solutions. It's about putting the user at the center of every decision with insights that meet and exceed user requirements and expectations. The goal is to provide user-relevant experience by helping make the product and solutions fit into their life.UX Designers define and design end-to-end experiences. Their responsibilities can span all the way from user research to final design execution. They are usually involved in the early and middle design phases, leading design research efforts, defining experience objectives and design principles, and driving design directions. Deliverables produced by UX Designers can vary depending on their roles in a project, which typically include competitive analysis, personas, scenarios and use cases, journey maps, storyboards, experience objectives, design requirements and guiding principles, and high-level information architecture.Responsibilities:Leads multiple project teams of other designers and internal and outsourced partners responsible for all stages of user experience design and development for a portfolio of complex products and platforms, including experience/information architecture, validation, and specifications.Manages and expands relationships with internal and outsourced partners on user experience design and development.Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with user experience design and development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and user experience.Provides domain-specific expertise and overall user experience design leadership and perspective to cross-organization projects, programs, and activities.Drives innovation and integration of new technologies and design language into projects and activities in the user experience design organization.Leads a project team of other designers and internal and outsourced partners to drive innovation and integration of new technologies into projects and activities in the design organizationProvides guidance and mentoring to less- experienced staff members.Education and Experience Required:Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Design, Human Factors Engineering, Social Sciences research, or equivalent.Typically 4-6 years experience.Knowledge and Skills:Broad experience with application of design theories, principles, and concepts to a portfolio of multiple information technology and consumer products and services designs.Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.Broad understanding and experience in designing and implementing research and data collection plans for user experience testing and acceptance.Reviewing and evaluating designs for alignment with overall product architecture; recommending and implementing changes to designs and technology to improve product quality and overall user experience.Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language.Ability to effectively communicate user experience data, design proposals and product specifications and negotiate options at senior management levels.

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