Senior User Experience Designer

Collabera; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Collabera is seeking a User Experience Designer for a location in Austin, TX. This position involves delivering user-centered design solutions for self-service applications across web and mobile platforms. Candidates must have strong experience in Agile development and design principles, with a Bachelor’s degree in Design.

As part of a geographically diverse team, you’ll be responsible for gathering requirements, creating wireframes and high-fidelity mock-ups, and ensuring effective communication with engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of expertise in Agile development, usability testing, and user research.
• Strong interaction designer background.
• Ability to communicate effectively with product owners and development teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver user-centered design solutions in a fast-paced environment.
• Gather requirements and produce style guides.
• Create high-fidelity mock-ups and wireframes.

Skills

Agile development

Usability testing

User research

Interaction design

Verbal and written communication

Problem solving

Adobe products

Sketch

HTML

CSS

Education

Bachelor degree in Design-related field

Job description

Are you passionate about conceptualizing, nurturing, developing and proving new ideas and developing them into new solutions? Would you like to help create the next major innovation in and around the payment landscape pioneering and leveraging the most advanced devices, hardware and software in the world, anything and everything in and around world’s largest payment ecosystem? Smart phones, connected devices, Internet of things, future of payment, smart POS, iBeacons, are you passionate about any of these. Are you looking to join a start-up or an incubator so that you could convert your ideas into real products? Come join us. We will provide the tools, the environment, the eco-system and the support you need. You will find an informal, innovation friendly environment at 1 Market St in the middle of San Francisco downtown, overlooking some sweeping views of the Bay and Bay Bridge.

Job Description

Position Details: Location: Austin, TX Duration: 08/21/2016 with extensions for the right candidate and possible conversion for the right candidate Interview: Phone then onsite. # of Positions: 1

Seeking a User Experience Designer to provide analysis and design of consumer-facing self-service applications for web/mobile.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor degree in Design-related field
• 3+ years of experience required

Major Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conceptual Problem Solving
• Requirements gathering and production of style guides.
• Wire-framing a wide range of experiences not limited to web, mobile and tablet.
• Creation of high-fidelity, pixel perfect mock-ups
• Deliver user-centered design solutions in fast paced environment, with quick iterative cycles
• Willing to work with a geographically diverse team of product owners, UX designers, developers
• Capable of communicating effectively with engineers and problem solving UX issues

Qualifications

Must Have Skills:

• 3-5 strong years of Agile development or knowledge, usability testing, user research.
• This candidate must have a strong interaction designer background.
• They must be comfortable speaking to product owners and development teams, a self starter, take/run with the project

Responsibility level:

• Exercises independent judgment with minimal direction from supervisor. Serve as a design lead and work with our product partners to drive design decision making.
• Capable of leading meetings and speaking to design decision making clearly and intelligently.

Skills:

• Conceptual design
• Able to maintain a high attention to detail in a fast paced, quick turn-around setting
• Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills (Required)
• Ability to interpret and design based on written style guides. (Required)
• Expert ability to work independently and manage one’s time (Required)
• Expert knowledge of Adobe products (Required)
• Working knowledge of Sketch (Required)
• Expert knowledge of design techniques and principals involved in the production of prototypes, wire-frames and high-fidelity mock-ups
• Strong visual design
• Strong aptitude for usability
• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS desired

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.