UI/UX Designer (Senior Associate) at GVA Partners

Responsibilities

• Create and design web elements that optimize user interaction and experience.
• Lead creation of wireframes, storyboards, and conceptual models for testing and building a clean UI for the best user-experience.
• Lead building of wireframes and storyboards to conceptualize design.
• Collaborate on scenarios, end-to-end experiences, and screen designs.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience.
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
• Lead user research and evaluate user feedback.
• Lead user testing of applications, software, and websites with Test Engineers.
• Modify existing, create new and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards.
• Provide guidance and recommendations on software design and development best practices to both software developers, key leadership and the customer.
• Help define UX performance metrics and perform post-development usability testing to validate business needs and user goals.
  

General Skills

• Analytical capabilities, strong writing skills, and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.
• Good written and oral communication across business and technical stakeholders
• Able to comfortably manage multiple tasks, communicate status, escalate issues and juggle competing priorities
• Experience in leading teams to deliver UI/UX designs

Background:

• 3-5 years of experience developing user interface solutions for complex, multi-platform enterprise-level software applications and projects.

Preferred skills:

• Use automation tests and/or frameworks such as Selenium, Postman, JMeter, SoapUI, etc.
• Use analytical skills to uncover root causes to issues.
• Experience using one or more of the following wire framing tools: Mockplus, Axure, Balsamiq, Mockups, Justinmind, Fluid UI, MockFlow, UXPin, Proto.io.
• Experience working within the Agile Scrum methodology.
• Experience designing web-based solutions and cross browser compatible solutions.
• Experience working with end user stakeholders at various levels of the organization to design effective user interfaces and work with developers to implement design
• Designing mobile specific solutions with various platforms (iOS, Android, mobile web).
• An eye for great UI / UX Design.
• Working knowledge of quantitative, behavioral analysis and statistics