200016467 - Sr. Interaction Designer

JOIN THE TEAM AS A SENIOR INTERACTION DESIGNER
Global User Experience Team


About This Opportunity
Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. To begin with, you will start as Senior Interaction Designer for our consumer and business web, desktop and mobile applications. As a UX designer you'll take the lead as you…

• Are expected to work as a facilitator and constantly help facilitate discussion around business value and user stories and help agile development team with backlog creation and prioritization.
• Will be responsible for your UX teams' velocity and produce rich deliverables keeping up with the fast paced sprints and twice a week stakeholder UX reviews meetings.
• Help lead the development of the holistic vision, strategy and roadmap for our User Experience, across multiple technology platforms, focusing on innovation and user/customer centric strategies
• Partner with other user experience practitioners, user interface developers, product management, marketing and more within Global User Experience and across our channels to implement best practices and ensure visual, functional and conceptual unity.
• Work with key partners within the company to conduct design studios, specify business requirements and user stories
• Create best in class user experience deliverables, including wireframes, prototypes, personas, heuristic evaluations, usability research plans, to best implement the intended user experience

Aquent is the only global staffing company dedicated to creative, marketing, and digital roles exclusively for Fortune 1000 companies. The world’s most renowned global brands come to Aquent for high-caliber freelance talent. Its new division Vitamin T, provides mid-sized and ad agency clients with faster, easier access to in-demand interactive talent. Aquent and Vitamin T have built an impressive global network of marketing and creative services professionals, including print and interactive designers, UX designers and developers, copywriters, brand managers, market researchers, and more



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Requirements

• 7+ years of the following experiences: User Experience Design, Information Architecture (IA), Interaction Design, Visual Design or related fields in the design of web applications, creation of IA documents such as wireframes, customer journey maps, user stories, personas, and other user-centric documentation
• B.S., or higher in HCI, Industrial Engineering, Graphic Design, Marketing, Psychology, Human Factors or related field
• Proven ability in UI design, Interaction Design, and for Enterprise Web/SaaS Applications
• Fluent with Agile techniques such as task mapping, storyboarding, sketching, low and high-fidelity mockups and wireframes
• Familiar with the latest points of view on responsive design and design for cross-platform & mobile devices
• Practice in user research techniques and tools, including customer interviews, usability testing, contextual inquiry, A/B testing and unfacilitated techniques
• Self-driven to keep up with & learn/use the latest design tools, methods, and techniques, particularly those which can most seamlessly be consumed as code.
• Fluent with software tools for wireframes and high fidelity prototypes such as Adobe Fireworks or Axure plus Visio, Omnigraffle or Balsamiq.
• Experience working with remote teams and the use of remote tools
• Proven conceptual skills, a critical eye for detail, and the ability to translate complex concepts into a clear visual representation
• Must be able to provide portfolio of user interface design work and demonstrate track record of bottom line impact resulting from user interface design.

Experience with the following a plus (but not required):
• Other Adobe Creative Suite products including Photoshop, Dreamweaver, among others
• Visual Design Expertise
• HTML/HTML5
• CSS/CSS3
• Comfortable on PC or Mac
• Must be willing to work in an Agile development environment, with excellent customer/user focus.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, drive for results and have a strong bias for action
• Must have excellent communication skills, a can-do attitude, and the confidence, passion and bravery to push the limits of mobile-first thinking for UI and UX. This team will be delivering high visibility products, collaborating on bleeding edge projects & will release industry-first solutions.