Designer - Production (Web and Digital)

ManpowerGroup - Saint Paul, MN

Full-time - Mid 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 St Paul, MN for an 11-month contract. The UX Designer will provide subject-matter expertise and direction on leveraging new user interaction technologies to create compelling user experiences that solve customer needs. This role involves participating in exploratory design research to identify user needs and opportunities, creating experience journey maps, storyboards, wireframes, and other UX design deliverables. The designer will translate 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 UX 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 position also requires the development of prototypes to explore and validate product design concepts, as well as participation in usability testing, documenting findings, and making design recommendations. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in user-interface design, particularly in commercial product development, and will be adept at interaction design, wireframing, and rapid prototyping. They should possess strong conceptualization abilities and visual communication skills, along with experience in information architecture for software design, including embedded software. The UX Designer will be expected to iterate designs based on insights and leverage data to inform design decisions, utilizing design and prototyping tools such as Photoshop, Adobe XD, InDesign, Sketch, and InVision.

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.