Senior UI/UX Designer

Rapinno Tech; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a Senior UI/UX Designer for a contract role in Oakland, CA. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in user experience design for web-based applications and a strong grasp of responsive web design principles. Responsibilities include leading the design process for digital products, defining product goals, and collaborating with various teams to enhance user experiences. Familiarity with tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite is essential. This position requires US citizenship or valid work authorization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in user experience design for web-based applications.
• Able to translate business requirements into intuitive interface solutions.
• Experience working in a matrixed environment with designers and developers.

Responsibilities

• Lead design for various digital products in a collaborative environment.
• Define product goals, user journeys, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Validate and present design concepts to stakeholders.

Skills

User experience design

Responsive web design

Agile development process

Figma

Sketch

Adobe Creative Suite

Microsoft Office

Slack

Jira

Education

Bachelor's degree in HCI, Graphic Design, or related field

Job description

Note: Need Only US Citizen, Green Card, EAD-GC, J2 EAD, H4 EAD, L2 EAD, and TN Visa.

Job Title: Senior UI/UX Designer

Location: Oakland, CA

Duration: 06+ Months Contract

Client: DISYS

Job Description:

The Senior UX/UI Designer leads the design process for various online products, working with visual designers, user research, engineering, business analysts, content specialists and business stakeholders in a fast-moving agile environment to deliver high quality experiences.

Designers leverage a wide variety of hard and soft skills and techniques to best visualize and validate designs.

Responsibilities

This role has an approximately 60/40 split in leading the design for various digital products and supporting the development and delivery of these products.

• Work with business analysts and the user research team in product discovery.
• Collaboratively define the product goals and metrics, user journey, wireframes, high fidelity mock-ups and prototypes.
• Validate design concepts and present designs and rationale to senior stakeholders for approval.
• Support and participate in user testing and guerilla testing.
• Support and participate in delivering specifications.
• Collaborate to improve design processes and share best practices.
• Mentor more junior designers on the team.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in user experience design for web-based applications.
• 3 to 5 years of experience with responsive web design.
• Able to translate business requirements into intuitive interface solutions while maintaining established brand look and feel.
• Experience working in a matrixed environment with other designers, product managers, developers, QA, user research and extended stakeholders.
• Able to understand and design complex workflows.
• Adept at presenting designs and design rationale to stakeholders.
• Experience working in an Agile development process.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of backend systems capabilities.
• Able to work independently and build strong relationships with functional team partners.
• Expert with Figma/Sketch, Invision, and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Comfortable with Microsoft Office, Box, Slack and Jira.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HCI, Graphic Design, or related field.
• Experience in health care, or other complex, highly regulated environment.
• Experience working in large matrixed corporate environments on distributed teams and stakeholders.
• Experience working with design systems and style guides.
• Information architecture experience (strategic planning and diagrammatic skills).
• Good understanding of HTML and CSS (ability to code is not necessary).