• Creates innovative solutions for a wide variety of product design challenges, including mobile, desktop, hardware interfaces, physical environments, and person-to-person interactions.
• Leads the design for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences.
• Plans and defines strategy for the direction of future iterations.
• Quickly iterates on multiple interactive design solutions and work through details.
• Advocates for design solutions, highlighting inputs that influenced the decisions including business and user goals, demographic and usage data, and research findings.
• Develops high level, detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Delivers work that’s not only user-friendly, aesthetically engaging, but which also produces results.
• Works alongside engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the production cycle.
• Assesses and optimizes the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics.
• Develops and maintains detailed user-interface specifications.
• Presents design work to multiple teams and senior leadership for review and feedback.
• Contributes to the group’s shared knowledge of user-centered design and research methodologies.

Qualifications :

• Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design
• Strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills
• Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
• Experience in a highly Agile/scrum environment
• Ability to work in a startup environment

Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or 5+ years equivalent professional experience
• Master’s in Human Factors, HCDE, or Cognitive Psychology a plus
• 5+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role
• A portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions
• Experience designing and shipping products for mobile and desktop
• Experience with a variety of design and prototyping tools such as Illustrator, Sketch, Hype, Axure, and Keynote