User Experience Designer
King of Prussia, PA, USA
If you like working in a friendly, flexible, collaborative environment, this is the place for you! Our client near King of Prussia is looking for a User Experience Designer to create the user interaction experience for their software products and online solutions for an international community. The ideal candidate will be an accomplished visual and interaction designer who understands the subtleties behind improving software interface usability. The person in this role works as part of a team with Experience Analysts, Design Technologists, Developers and Product Managers to create and improve digital experiences. He/she will join a fast paced environment utilizing agile design and development processes, on a beautiful campus with offices with a modern, open floor plan.
The User Experience Designer:
- Works with the User Experience Architect, taking high-level information architecture direction along with user research and business strategy to form end user experience
- Designs and iterates proposed user experience with team of User Experience Analysts, Design Technologists, Developers and Project/Program owners
- Possesses a refined sense of visual design
- Presents designs in clear and understandable manner to project stakeholders and team members
- Delivers appropriate user-centered design artifacts such as wireframes, aesthetics, behavioral prototypes, and style guides necessary to describe interaction to product stakeholders, end users and developers
- Educates partners on user centered design best practices
- Develops user experience best practices into standards to be applied across multiple solutions
Qualified candidates must:
- Offer at least 4 years of user experience design experience with robust software-like, highly-interactive interfaces
- Have worked in roles similar to Information Architect, Interaction Designer, Visual Designer, Graphic Artist, Prototype Developer
- Possess portfolio of excellent user interface design and intelligent process approach and artifacts
- Proficient in last design documentation and development programs
- Be comfortable with agile software development processes
- Thrive in a fast-paced, multitasking environment
- Coordinate multiple projects, facilitate meetings across business lines and vendors, and meet scheduled and unscheduled deadlines
- Work under minimum direction, and use independent judgment in decision-making
- Display outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Persuade and influence in a manner that is tactful and assertive
- Demonstrate a high level of personal initiative by setting and achieving challenging goals and exhibiting a strong entrepreneurial spirit
- Remain flexible within a geographically dispersed team (domestic and international), and manage in an active, changing environment
For more information on this and other User Experience opportunities:
Meg Metz | mmetz@missionstaff.com | (215) 545-1600
Received: 08-Aug-08
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