User Experience Designer (UXD)

Highbrow LLC; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work hours

Collaborative environment

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

A cutting-edge design firm in Bellevue, Washington is seeking an experienced User Experience Designer (UXD) to join their Digital Development team. In this role, you will create innovative designs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and maintain design systems. The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of experience and a strong portfolio in UX design. This position allows for remote work and offers a collaborative environment. Strong communication skills and a passion for technology are essential.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience designing digital products as part of a cross-functional team.
• Experience in continuous discovery and development environment.
• Experience in competitive analysis and user research.

Responsibilities

• Create wireframes and prototypes to communicate design ideas.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers in an agile environment.
• Develop and maintain design systems.

Skills

Rapid Prototyping

Agile Collaboration

User Research

Information Architecture

Communication Skills

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Understanding of Cybersecurity

Education

Undergraduate degree in relevant field

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Title User – Experience Designer (UXD)
Department Digital Development – Security
City – Bellevue / REMOTE
State – Washington
Travel Required ? – No

Job Description :—— User Experience Designer (UXD)

DESCRIPTION :-

– Visual Design:

• Proven experience in rapid prototyping with a mix of low and high-fidelity wireframes, architecture diagrams, designs and sketches
• Develop information architecture guides, wireframes, prototypes and presentations that can communicate core features/functionality and product structure to stakeholders and technology team

– Collaboration:

• Works with product managers, product owners, engineers and other stakeholders in an agile framework to define strategic priorities balanced with continuous discovery and delivery of customer-driven and iterative products and solutions
• Build relationships with cross functional team members and executives across organizations, and effectively speak to process, design goals and team vision as a strong representative of the design team

– UX Strategy:

• Help shape roadmaps, defining iterative scope and product requirements while aligning viability, value and usability.

– Design System:

• Create and maintain a design system through documentation, templates and libraries. Work side-by-side with product owners and engineers to ensure the transition between design and implementation is as seamless as possible (slices, files, code hand-offs etc)

– UX Research:

• Use analysis, competitive research and continuous user insights to socialize the UX, design and user research strategies in collaboration with product management.
• Work with the team to prioritize and execute user research and testing.

– Domain & Technology:

• Knowledge of designing products and tools that interface with a variety of backend platforms and services that goes beyond integration work including Cloud, NodeJS, React, REST architecture, APIs, pipelines.
• While you will be creating products and solutions primarily for the front-end, there will be a lot of interfacing work with backend platforms and tools.
• Critical to have a working knowledge of these to best enable engineering and product teams.

– Research & Innovation:

• Keep abreast of latest interactive technology, developments/trends and UX/UI best practices in the digital landscape
• Partner with colleagues to ideate on potential innovations that solve real customer problems and capitalize on business opportunities
• Inspire what’s possible by quickly producing multiple concepts, knowing when to apply attention to detail, and when to make low-fi sketches and prototypes

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS :-

• Experience in a continuous discovery and development environment with 3-5 years’ experience designing digital products and solutions as part of a cross‑functional team
• Has worked as part of an agile scrum team as a dedicated cross‑functional team member (not agency model and not offshore)
• Proven experience in taking complicated problems and breaking them down into iterative designs that provide incremental customer value
• Ability to work independently and set goals for UX improvements.
• Ability to communicate UX improvements to a variety of stakeholders.
• Experience partnering with developers to facilitate design handoff and QA designs
• Experience with competitive analysis, user research, and communicating and applying those findings to UX execution.
• Portfolio or case studies showcasing experience in executing on key business objectives through user experience. Work samples should reflect an advanced understanding of skills and scope of work and you should be prepared to talk through them in detail.
• Knowledge and passion for cybersecurity and/or product security (SDL) a plus
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills; ability to communicate internally, upward, and cross functionally; ability to interface with cross‑functional team members to gain support required to accomplish assignments; able to build coalitions.
• Must be a team‑player with the ability to work with interdisciplinary teams fostering ideasharing, and streamlining.
• Candidates must have an undergraduate degree in a relevant field.
• Strong communication skills, organization skills, and time management skills.
• Must exhibit highest level of work standards and keen attention to detail.
• Candidates must be self‑motivated, possess a strong work ethic, with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Must be technologically savvy, with proficiency in relevant design and prototyping software for documenting, communicating ideas/outputs/solutions, showcasing flows etc such as Figma, Principle, Adobe Creative Suite and more