Lead UX Designer

Lead Experience Designer

Summary

A Lead Experience Designer is responsible for facilitating, generating and executing great user experiences for our clients and their end users. Acting as a coach, mentor and lead for both internal teams as well as an advocate for our clients’ needs, a lead experience architect is a true veteran of human-centered design, interaction design and design research – and still in love with getting their hands dirty.

Essential Job Functions:

• User experience planning and consolidating BRD for the entire project

• Responsible for the execution of strong interaction design and visual design principles

• Facilitating dialog around end-user requirements and business requirements

• Guiding clients through key design engagements

• Performing user research

• Driving innovative solutions within platform constraints and technical limitations

• Developing interaction models and conceptual frameworks of experience

• Researching interaction design trends

• Researching technology trends

• Performing other duties as assigned

Qualifications & Experience:

• 6+ years of user experience design experience for software, Web applications, consumer electronics and/or mobile devices

• Strong conceptualization ability and strong visual communication ability

• Exceptional design skills, production value and attention to detail

• Strong working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks and associated design tools

• Extensive experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies across multiple platforms

• Clear leadership skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Strong client-facing presentation and communication skills

• Strong understanding of common software project management practices

• Strong understanding of common software development practices

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in interaction design, new media design, industrial design, HCI, human factors/ergonomics or related field