User Experience Lead

We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG's primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.

Do you have the following skills, experience and drive to succeed in this role Find out below.In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients – including governmental agencies and private companies – throughout the United States and India.We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.Job Description

Need a rockstar guy, avoid H1B’s unless they have 10+ years of experience.The ideal candidate would be someone who drives experience strategy and vision across all phases of customer experience design. Primary skill sets are in the areas of UX-expertise (user-centric methodologies across disciplines) and vision, and strong communication/presentation skills. As the primary point-of-contact for the project team, this person must partner closely with the Project and Production Manager to facilitate communication between team members, manage resources and timelines.Responsibilities:Defines and maintains the creative strategy, experience vision and roadmap for the Digital Channel.Leads User Experience practice; setting standards and clear expectations across organization around roles, responsibilities, engagement model and processes.Tracks digital experience trends and competitive landscape.Defines approach and utilization of prototyping, user labs and end user research – including the creation of customer personas.Understands target audiences' needs, tasks, and goals and translate them into creative experience design concepts.Ensures consistent and appropriate expertise of internal and external resources, quality of deliverable and optimal support for Digital initiatives.Leads site/audience/project-specific experience strategies, vision and roadmaps – ensuring consistency of strategy and alignment with broader vision.Collaborates with broader digital strategy team, business stakeholders and subject matter experts to brainstorm and validate experience design concepts.Leads project-level experience design strategy and oversees development of associated user experience deliverables.Ensures that information architecture, visual design and copy work together to create an experience that resonates with users.Leads and/or participates in user research, concept testing, and usability testing.Provides experience design standards for “run the channel” execution to ensure consistency and alignment (e.g. email layout, landing page optimization, campaign flow standards).Skills:

Core IA and UCD methodologiesWeb metrics analysis and translating into design solutionsLibrary science and taxonomiesAbility to convey brand values through design plansCollaboration skillsAdditional Information

GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLSDURATION: 6-12 monthsINTERVIEW: PHONE & SKYPELocation will either be

Boston MA

or

Charlotte NC

(Candidate must be open to relocate to either location, once selected)

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