Sr. Experience Strategist (Contract)

CourtAvenue Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

CourtAvenue, INC. is seeking a seasoned UX researcher/experience designer to help drive human-centric design across client engagements.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate user insights into actionable architecture, journeys, and interactive prototypes. The contract role offers 20-40 hours per week for 4-5 months, with emphasis on research methods, synthesis, and presenting strategic recommendations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of agency or consultancy experience in UX research and design.
• Samples demonstrating ability to articulate strategy, architecture, and recommendations.
• Proficiency with design tools to produce architecture and experience documentation.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on business, brand, and user experience goals.
• Research problems, identify user needs, and recommend client opportunities.
• Lead diverse research methods (contextual inquiries, interviews, usability studies, competitive analysis).
• Synthesize findings into compelling narratives and actionable recommendations for design and development.

Skills

UX research

Experience design

Stakeholder collaboration

Usability testing

Tools

Figma

Miro

Illustrator

Job description

CourtAvenue is a company of industry experts accelerating digital transformation for the world’s most ambitious companies.

At CourtAvenue, you will be a part of a culture powered by entrepreneurs, technologists, data scientists and the habitually restless dedicated and energized to design products and services that transform businesses while optimizing them for growth. You will have the opportunity to learn and grow within a culture that values innovation while focusing on redesigning the experience between consumer and service (or product) by leveraging a fluid, seamless, and thoroughly transparent engagement.

Qualities for Success

You thrive in an environment where innovation is the primary focus. You enjoy considering your assignments through macro and micro views. You are adept at determining which perspective is appropriate to use in a situation. You also love to drive clarity; ambiguity is a space of comfort. You are excited about creating valuable, meaningful experiences for fellow humans. You also love advocating for their needs and aspirations. Figuring out how emerging technologies might strategically apply to user experience and then collaborating to bring experience design to life is your idea of fun.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to drive alignment and create human-centric experiences that deliver on business and brand strategies, user insights, and technology requirements.
• Research the problem space, identify user needs, and recommend client opportunities.
• Lead, facilitate, and conduct research through various methodologies, including contextual inquiries, interviews, workshops, moderated and unmoderated usability studies, as well as competitive UX analysis, feature audits, heuristic evaluations, etc.
• Synthesize research and strategic recommendations into a compelling presentation narrative.
• Translate data analysis and strategy recommendations into experience architecture (e.g., sitemaps & wireframes) and articulate research findings and strategic recommendations for design application (e.g., consult with design and development).
• Create experience journeys and roadmaps that bring the brand to life in a way that is meaningful to users.
• Collaborate closely with creative counterparts for copy and visual design as well as development to bring the experience to life.

Requirements

• 5+ years of agency or consultancy experience with an understanding of a startup environment and the flexibility needed to be successful.
• Samples of work that demonstrate your ability to articulate strategy, experience architecture, and recommendations.
• Fluent in design tools (e.g., Figma, Miro) to produce architecture and experience documentation.

This is a contract opportunity with an hourly commitment of 20-40 hours per week for 4-5 months .

CourtAvenue, INC. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CourtAvenue recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or genetic information.

CourtAvenue, INC. participates in the E-Verify program. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form (I-9) upon hire.