UX Designer III Contract

Title : UX Designer III

Location : Redmond, Washington

Duration : 12+Months contract

Responsibilities
● Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers and other designers to define great experiences from initial concept through successful implementation
● Visualize and prototype intended solutions at various levels of fidelity including high-level wireframes, conceptual designs, design presentations and detailed specifications
● Collaborate closely with one or more local or remote Agile Scrum teams, working iteratively to deliver customer value
● Use customer insights that come from analytics and customer interactions to help inform business and design decisions
● Help to facilitate and participate in user research like interviews and usability testing to validate designs and make iterative improvements
● Contribute to efforts to create scalable experience design standards and improve design processes
● Participate in and lead design-thinking exercises to break through organizational silos and collaboratively solve complex design challenges

Required Qualifications
● Advanced skills in all of the following: user centered design methodologies; creating mock-ups and prototypes at varying levels of fidelity; UI design, including current industry best-practice in UI standards, and accessibility requirements, for web and mobile.
● A portfolio demonstrating your end-to-end design process.
● Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas to their essence.
● Demonstrable experience utilizing a variety of human-centered design methods and best practices
● Ability to drive results in a collaborative environment.
● Strong presentation skills to share your work with credibility, clarity, and confidence.
● Experience translating qualitative and quantitative data into design decisions.
● Practical understanding (including capabilities, patterns and limitations) of current technologies used to build rich experiences in responsive web and native mobile
large enterprise apps.
● Expert in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.

Desired Qualifications
● MA / MS degree UX/UI design, UCD, HCI, or related field of study, or equivalent experience.
● 5+ years of experience in product design or user experience design, preferably in gaming, research, or e-commerce adjacent industries.
● Experience defining product strategy and vision
● Ability to balance great design solutions with an iterative, agile approach.
● Experience supporting a complex ecosystem with multiple products
● Comfortable working on a distributed team and collaborating remotely

Rate/Salary: $70/hr to $80/hr