Designer - Production (Web and Digital)

ManpowerGroup - Saint Paul, MN

Full-time - Entry Level

Saint Paul, MN

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

Our client is seeking a User Experience (UX) Designer to join their team in Saint Paul, MN. This position is a contract role lasting 11 months, where the designer will provide subject-matter expertise and direction on leveraging new user interaction technologies to create compelling user experiences that solve customer needs. The designer will participate in exploratory design research to identify user needs and opportunities, creating experience journey maps, storyboards, wireframes, and other UX design deliverables. The role involves translating user needs into product design concepts and usability requirements, leading creative concept processes, and contributing to the creation, prioritization, and selection of alternative concepts. Additionally, the designer will create UI designs for embedded and web software systems that meet customer and business needs, solidifying and refining design concepts with design specifications to communicate effectively with internal partners. The UX Designer will also develop prototypes to explore and validate product design concepts, participate in usability testing, document findings, and make design recommendations. This role requires a strong background in user-interface design, particularly in commercial product development, with a focus on interaction design, wireframing, and rapid prototyping. The designer should have experience in information architecture for software design, including embedded software, and possess strong conceptualization and visual communication abilities. The position also requires familiarity with UX analysis methods and deliverables, such as personas and user journey maps, and the ability to iterate designs based on insights and data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject-matter expertise and direction on leveraging new user interaction technologies to create compelling user experiences.
• Participate in exploratory design research to identify user needs and opportunities.
• Create experience journey maps, storyboards, wireframes, and other UX design deliverables.
• Translate user needs to product design concepts and usability requirements.
• Lead creative concept processes and contribute to the creation, prioritization, and selection of alternative concepts.
• Create UI designs for embedded and web software systems that meet customer and business needs.
• Solidify and refine design concepts with design specifications to communicate concepts and designs to internal partners.
• Develop prototypes to explore and validate product design concepts.
• Participate in usability testing, documenting findings and making design recommendations.

Requirements

• M.S degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Interaction Design, Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline.
• 2+ years of relevant user-interface design experience (e.g., UX / Interaction Design / Visual Design / Digital Product Design) in commercial product development.
• Strong experience in interaction design, utilizing wireframing and rapid prototyping.
• Experience in information architecture for software design, including embedded software.
• Strong conceptualization ability and strong visual communication ability.
• Experience with UX analysis methods and deliverables, to structure user research insights - e.g., personas, user journey maps, affinity diagrams.
• Experience with conceptualizing and developing new concepts for addressing user insights and unmet user needs.
• Experience in iterating design based on insights and leveraging data in a way that informs design decisions.
• In-depth knowledge of design and prototyping tools, e.g., Photoshop, Adobe XD, InDesign, Sketch, InVision.
• Strong creative problem-solving skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Expertise in planning, conducting, analyzing and reporting design research and usability testing, summarizing results and synthesizing insights.
• Experience in medical device development.
• Able to manage ambiguity, work autonomously, keep organized, and multitask.
• Ability to quickly assimilate complex domain knowledge.