Senior UI Designer

Critical Mass - Bogota, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Bogota, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior UI Designer is responsible for the execution of UI strategy projects. The Sr. UI Designer works integrated into a larger team and is capable of handling complex user experience projects efficiently under minimum direction from either a Creative Lead or a UI Manager, but also has proven ability to handle interaction experience projects independently exceeding expectations.

Responsibilities

• Works closely with clients, business partners, industry experts and the development team to achieve the business goals.
• Conducts discovery sessions and exercises with business stakeholders and partners to understand the business, product/app background, limitations and the ecosystem surrounding the product or application with minimum lead's direction.
• Carries out complex user experience and user behavior testing to determine needs, feelings, desires and pain points with minimum lead's direction.
• Structures user research insights using design-thinking exercises with minimum lead's direction.
• Prepares handoff for the development team including design comps, design assets, redlines and UX documentation.
• Applies usability best practices.
• Applies accessibility best practices.
• Applies agile and iterative design best practices.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in visual design, interface design, UX, or product design
• Experience in UI prototyping
• Experience managing and creating UI design systems
• Extensive knowledge of Figma
• Solid understanding of interactivity and animation principles and best practices
• Solid understanding of visual design principles, trends, systems and structures
• Solid understanding of UX principles, trends and theory
• Knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite
• Understanding of productivity and remote collaboration tools: MS Office, Word, Excel, Outlook, Jira, Trello, Slack, Zoom, Acrobat, Drive, Box, Paper, Notion
• Knowledge of design systems frameworks such as Material Design and Human Interface Guidelines
• Experience with international clients and global brands preferred
• Understanding of digital marketing, online advertising and business strategy concepts
• Comfortable on the iOS environment

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with international clients and global brands preferred

Benefits

• Competitive benefits packages
• Vacation, compassionate leave, sick days, and flex days
• Access to online services for families and new parents
• End of year closure days (not deducted from vacation balance)
• Diversity and Inclusion Board with 12 affinity groups
• Internal learning and development programs
• And more…