User Experience Designer (UX) - Sr (contract)

Thomson Reuters; Frisco (TX); Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior User Experience Designer, where your creativity will shape intuitive and seamless user experiences. In this dynamic role, you will collaborate with a passionate team to tackle complex challenges, ensuring our diverse client base can easily engage with our innovative digital solutions. Your expertise in user-centered design and responsive methodologies will drive the development of high-quality products across various platforms. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Medical Benefits

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Retirement Benefits

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of design experience creating solutions for complex challenges.
• Strong portfolio showcasing design process and results.

Responsibilities

• Create user flows, wireframes, and prototypes to communicate designs.
• Collaborate with UX team to develop new products and features.
• Gather and analyze UX needs for complex product requirements.

Skills

User-Centered Design

Responsive Design

Prototyping

Agile Development

Critical Thinking

Communication Skills

Time Management

Education

BA/BS in Graphic Design

Equivalent Industry Training/Experience

Tools

Prototyping Tools

Job description

User Experience Designer (UX) - Sr (Contract)

Frisco, TX, United States (Remote)

Contract (8 months 25 days)

Published 4 days ago

Sr. User Experience Designer

Job Description

Are you a curious, smart, self-driven UX professional who loves the challenge of turning complex problems and constraints into elegant solutions that meet a customer's needs? Come and join us as we work to transform Thomson Reuters into a truly digital company. We aren't just changing the way customers engage with us; we are transforming and re-imagining our business by focusing on the individual user.

Our work focuses on a large portfolio of transformational efforts as we work together to deliver on the promise of making it easy to do business with Thomson Reuters. Our customers range from small entrepreneurs to large corporations and government clients across the globe. They are under a lot of pressure to ensure the products and services they purchase meet their business needs and are confident in knowing how to use them. Our customers desire a seamless and intuitive way to engage in training and support experiences across our suite of products.

Role Summary

As a Sr. UX designer, you'll work closely with product managers, content strategists, UI designers, developers, and researchers to create an elegant customer experience. As a creator of bar-raising experiences, you inherently look for ways to remove the difficult and make complex experiences feel easy, intuitive, and have a seamless flow that helps our customers feel empowered. You confidently make and defend decisions while creating user-centered online experiences in an agile environment.

About the Team

The UX Product Design team is looking for a passionate designer to join our cross-discipline user experience team solving complex problems for our customers in the legal and accounting space across the world. Our team loves solving tough problems, and we hope you do too. Our work spans mobile, tablet, and desktop experiences for all types of users. The team focuses on high-quality execution and high collaboration with our partners in product management and product engineering. It is an exciting time to work for Thomson Reuters as we move to bring the next generation of software-as-a-service products to our customers.

About the Role

As a Sr. UX Designer, you will:

• Create and build - Rapidly iterate through journey maps, storyboards, user flows, sketches, wireframes, and other design artifacts to effectively communicate interaction and a dynamic content strategy. Have deep experience with responsive UI design methodology and processes (user-centered and iterative design). Create and maintain prototypes for UX research testing with industry-leading tools.
• Be part of a collaborative team: Work closely with the UX Designers, Content Strategists, and UX Researchers in a collaborative team-oriented environment to create new products, features, and functionality. Advocate for the user’s needs while developing features that align with the needs of the user.
• Be an Effective Communicator: Share ideas, participate in peer reviews, and exhibit strong listening skills. You justify and articulate design decisions during design reviews. You lead brainstorming and sketching sessions with product teams.
• Be Curious & Innovative: Continuously update yourself by learning and leveraging new technologies and best practices within the field of user experience in order to enhance our practices. Turn user research and usability feedback into easy-to-use solutions. Gather, analyze, and synthesize UX needs for complex product and user requirements.

About You

You're a fit for this role if you have:

• 5-8 years design experience creating simple solutions for complex challenges
• Experience in responsive design with case studies in your portfolio
• Experience with industry-leading prototyping tools
• Strong portfolio of work that illustrates your process, your level of craft, and the results you have driven
• Familiarity with Agile development
• Confidence in working with a strong, passionate, fast-paced team environment
• Strong time-management, multi-tasking, and prioritization skills
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred qualifications:

• BA/BS in graphic design, fine art, visual communications, HCI, or related field (or equivalent industry training/experience)
• Familiarity with web standards (W3C and 508) / best practices for interaction design and accessibility

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $40-42/hr USD.

Our opt-in benefits can include medical, dental, vision, and retirement benefits.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.