Senior UI/UX Designer
Velocia
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design and deliver compelling, end-to-end user experience solutions for multiple products and platforms, from assessing and defining customer needs to delivering concepts, to prioritizing features, to presenting and evaluating prototypes, to validating user experience feedback
- Develop conceptual models, personas, workflows, design prototypes, and user interface specifications to demonstrate effectiveness of usability
- Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
- Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering
- Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
- Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
- Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders
- Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards
- Contribute to our external thought leadership efforts (for example: blog posts on cutting-edge practices in UX/UI for blockchain applications)
- Maintain high utilization and report activities into our resource management systems on a timely basis
What You'll Need To Be Successful:
- 6+ years of proven experience in UX and UI experience
- Previous experience in client facing roles at a creative agency
- A detailed portfolio that demonstrates a high level of creativity and an understanding of conversion optimization and user experience (websites, UI, interface designs)
- Skilled at juggling multiple projects while maintaining quality of work
- Ability to run discovery workshops with clients, including defining the process
- Enjoys presenting your designs and selling your solutions to various stakeholders
- Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
- Ability to adapt design to a wide variety of target audiences
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
- Strong communication (written and verbal), time management and interpersonal skills
- Proficiency in Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, or other design and prototyping tools
- Strong understanding of HTML and CSS, particularly as they relate to design
- Solid knowledge of responsive design, such as how elements react to each device
- Proficiency JavaScript for rapid prototyping is a plus
- Graphic design and illustrator skills are a plus
- Up-to-date with the latest UX and UI trends, techniques, and technologies
- Preferably a BS/MS in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or related