Senior User Experience (UX) Designer

The job overview for the Senior User Experience (UX) Designer position at VSA Partners is to lead the conceptualization, design, and activation of next-generation marketing systems, messages, and interfaces. The Senior UX Designer will collaborate closely with teammates in visual design, strategy, and technology to create sophisticated and dynamic experiences across multiple channels and devices. They will be responsible for defining big ideas and translating them into detailed interaction designs, while advocating for design choices based on clear strategy or heuristic principles. This role requires strong stakeholder collaboration, user research and design experience, and the ability to communicate recommendations through visualizations and user testing.

• Work with stakeholders to collect user needs, plan solutions, and define the vision for digital experiences in content marketing, service design, or retail innovation.
• Lead driven assessments, heuristic reviews, contextual inquiries, and synthesize findings from analytics to optimally support a vision or strategy.
• Direct and build journey maps, ideation sketches, wireframes, site maps, and prototypes.
• Produce compelling diagrammatic visualizations to communicate recommendations through user testing and use findings to inform additional iterations.

• Work with Stakeholders to collect user needs, plan solutions, and define the vision for digital experiences in content marketing, service design or retail innovation.
• Lead driven assessments, heuristic reviews, contextual inquiries and synthesize findings from analytics to optimally support a vision or strategy.
• Direct and build journey maps, ideation sketches, wireframes, site maps and prototypes.
• Produce compelling diagrammatic visualizations to communicate recommendations through user testing; and use findings to inform additional iterations.
• 4+ years of UX research and design experience.
• M.S. in HCI, UX, interaction design, human factors or industrial.

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunity to work with a dedicated and collaborative team
• Focus on human-centered and insight-inspired work
• Emphasis on design thinking approach
• Opportunity to work on branding, digital, marketing, and advertising projects
• Family-like work environment
• Chance to contribute to the conceptualization and design of next-generation marketing systems, messages, and interfaces
• Involvement in crafting sophisticated and dynamic experiences across multiple channels and devices
• Ability to lead smaller projects or significant components of large-scale projects
• Opportunity to work with stakeholders and collect user needs
• Chance to lead assessments, reviews, inquiries, and synthesis of findings
• Involvement in directing and building journey maps, sketches, wireframes, site maps, and prototypes
• Use of design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, InVision, Axure, Adobe InDesign, or Omnigraffle
• Equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity and inclusivity