User Experience Designer III - UX Design

US Tech Solutions - Urbandale, IA

Full-time

Urbandale, IA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

As a User Experience (UX) Design Lead, you will play a crucial role in supporting projects of varying complexity by developing user interaction task flows, wireframes, and prototypes, leading to the final production of both new and existing products. This position requires strategic design decisions and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure user-centered system requirements are met, while also mentoring less-experienced UX designers.

Responsibilities

• Support projects of moderate and high complexity through the development of User Interaction task flows, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to features and develop user-centered system requirements.
• Plan, coordinate, and perform UX interaction design and validation activities for a variety of projects of highly automated systems.
• Collaborate with UX designers on solution concepts derived from user-centered system requirements.
• Work closely with engineering and development teams to ensure features are implemented according to specification.
• Mentor and coach less-experienced UX Designers.

Requirements

• Four or more years of experience planning, executing, and analyzing UX design projects.
• Four or more years of visual interface design as applied to web and mobile.
• Four or more years of experience applying User-Centered Design principles to complex interface problems.
• Four or more years of experience working with cross-functional teams, such as engineering, software development, marketing, and business leaders.
• Three or more years of experience communicating research methodology, design concepts, data analysis, and test results to a broad range of stakeholders.
• Three or more years of experience with technology and product development processes.

Nice-to-haves

• Two or more years of visual interface design as applied to in-vehicle displays.
• Demonstrate ability to champion end user experience and to influence digital product designs across product areas.
• Demonstrate experience in product discovery, design research, and concept validation to inform experience definition and design concepts.
• A strong portfolio of UI visual design, task flows, and designing to solve user problems.
• Experience using UX metrics and a user-centered design process to provide insights to product engineering groups.
• Experience applying design principles in terms of user flows, accessibility, visual hierarchy, and brand influence.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize prototyping, user flows, storyboards, and/or existing research to provide insights to design ahead of high-fidelity design delivery.
• Experience designing for agriculture in-vehicle interfaces.

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer
• Consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran