Senior User Experience Designer

Kelly; Urbandale (IA); Hybrid; USD 74,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group in Urbandale, IA, is seeking a Senior UX Designer to support projects of moderate to high complexity, developing user interaction flows, wireframes, and prototypes through to production for new and existing products. Remote or on-site work with occasional on-site visits is expected.

The role requires portfolio submission and demonstrates ability to prototype elegant UX solutions.

Qualifications

• Four or more years of experience planning, executing, and analyzing UX design projects.
• Four or more years of visual interface design for web and mobile.
• Four or more years applying User-Centered Design to complex interface problems.
• Four or more years working with cross-functional teams (engineering, software, marketing, business).
• Three or more years of communicating research, design concepts, data, and test results to stakeholders.
• Three or more years of experience with technology and product development processes.

Responsibilities

• Make strategic design and UX decisions in collaboration with UX Lead related to features and system requirements.
• Plan, coordinate, and perform UX interaction design and validation activities for projects of highly automated systems.
• Create and maintain project and system design artifacts.
• Work with engineering and development teams to ensure features are implemented per specification.

Skills

UX design

Portfolio

User-Centered Design

Cross-functional collaboration

Prototyping

UX research methods

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field (Hum Factors, Graphic Design, Interaction/Visual Design)

Job description

Title: Sr. UX Designer

Location: Urbandale, IA, 50322 OR REMOTE

W2 Contract (No C2C)

Pay rate: $65 per hour

This person could work in Urbandale or remote. Must be willing to come onsite occasionally.

Please have portfolio link in resume

Note: A portfolio demonstrating ability to prototype and design elegant UX solutions (website URL or attachment) is REQUIRED upon application.

As a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer for the John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group (ISG Urbandale), you will support projects of moderate and high complexity through the development of User Interaction task flows, wireframes, prototypes through to final production for new and existing products.

In addition, you will:

• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions in collaboration with UX Lead 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
• Create and maintain project and overall system design artifacts
• Work closely with engineering and development teams to ensure features are implemented according to specification

What Skills You Need

• 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

What Makes You Stand Out

• 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

Ideally, you will have a degree or equivalent work experience in the following:

• Bachelor's degree in a Human Factors, Graphic Design, Interaction / Visual Design, or related field discipline or equivalent experience