User Experience Designer

Kelly; Urbandale (IA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Kelly seeks an experienced UX Designer for an on-site role in Urbandale, IA. This W2 contract focuses on true UX work for websites and mobile apps, steering away from candidates with mainly graphic arts backgrounds. A portfolio link and strong Figma experience are required.

You will apply user experience research insights to create visualizations and serve as the blueprint for product teams. Designs align with brand standards across multiple product lines.

Qualifications

• Portfolio link is required on resume.
• Figma experience is required.
• Strong UX focus; avoid candidates with primarily graphic arts backgrounds.
• Portfolio depth and relevance will be assessed during review.

Responsibilities

• Creates and designs elements or components resulting in high quality user experience designs.
• Incorporates branding and design guidelines into products.
• Creates wireframes, mock-ups, prototypes and specifications.
• Maintains style guides for varying methods of delivery.
• Follows appropriate design methodology, tools, and protocols to conduct user-centered design.
• Translates analytics data into visual designs to support interpretation and generation of insights.

Skills

UI languages

Interpersonal communication

Attention to detail

User-centered design

Education

Information Technology

Marketing

Miscellaneous degree

Tools

Figma

Job description

Title: UX Designer

Location: Urbandale, IA, 50322

W2 Contract (No C2C)

Pay rate: $47 per hour - $52.14 per hour

Please note that they are looking for candidates that enjoy true UX work related to website or mobile and to steer away from candidates with mostly graphic arts background. The manager also really looks at the way which candidates explain their portfolio experience and has seen several instances in previously submitted candidates of over-inflation of their experience. Though this can sometime be hard to vet out, please do the best you can in your conversations with the candidates to dive a little deeper on their portfolios and not just their resumes.

Must have link to portfolio on resume

Figma experience is needed

Major Purpose

Leverages user experience research insights and recommendations to accelerate discussions and decisions early in the product development process. Applies internal/external standards and best practices to create tangible visualizations that serve as the blueprint for product team to turn a concept into a solution, while ensuring they stay consistent with brand standards. Work at this level is of moderate complexity covering either a single user class with several personas or multiple user classes with a limited set of personas per user class. Designs cover multiple product lines in a single platform and enable moderately complex but serial user interactions. Designs typically consist of moderately complex modifications to existing solutions.

Major Duties

• Creates and designs elements or components resulting in high quality user experience designs.
• Incorporates branding and common design guidelines into products.
• Creates wireframes, mock-ups, prototypes and specifications.
• Maintains style guides for varying methods of delivery.
• Follows appropriate design methodology, tools, and protocols to conduct user-centered design.
• Translates analytics data into visual designs to support interpretation and generation of insights or vice versa.

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge

• Possesses working knowledge of core user interface languages.
• Technical skill and knowledge in a specialized area of engineering, e.g., design, analysis, test, evaluation, etc.
• Skill in interpersonal communications, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to deliver production-ready, clean and usable digital user interfaces across multiple form factors.

Education

• Degree in an Information Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
• Degree in a Marketing discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
• Miscellaneous degree or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)

Work Experience

• Work experience in a team environment. (1 - 3 years)
• Internal or external industry specific experience in relevant discipline. (1 - 3 years)
• Experience facilitating workshops on specific need(s) for the job, discipline, function, unit, etc. (Less than 1 year)