Lead UI/UX Designer Job at Sparks Group in McLean

Sparks Group and a global B2C company have partnered to find a Lead UI/UX Designer. This will be a long-term, fully remote contract opportunity. This role is responsible for designing mobile app products ranging from near-term tactical to longer-term strategy with a keen focus on data-driven, best-in-class product design. You will contribute to digital experiences that deliver on enrollments, onboarding, and member engagement to support business outcomes.

Lead UI/UX Designer Responsibilities:

• Produces sketches, wireframes, personas, journey maps, flows, designs, motion specs, prototypes and/or presentations as needed to communicate experience design.
• Provides subject matter expertise on key functional systems to help shepherd strategic initiatives from idea to feasible implementation.
• References Design System for appropriate patterns, components, and styles during user experience design work; attends Design System office hours for feedback and follows procedures to propose new elements when necessary.
• Produces both innovative high-level design concepts / strategy visualizations as well as development-ready designs with specifications.
• Ensure a quality experience on live digital products by participating in the user acceptance testing process.
• Uses software including Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Keeps skills up to date on industry trends and applies new knowledge to job, identifying strategic opportunities for competitive advantages through those findings.
• Clearly present your work citing industry best practices, qual and quant data to support your decisions.
• Be a thought partner providing recommendations based on research and data for experience enhancements across all digital touchpoints.
• Collaborates with a variety of user experience disciplines within the team (Information Architecture, Design System/Standards, User Research, Copywriting) to advance your work.

Lead UI/UX Designer Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in digital product design.
• 4-year undergraduate degree, or relevant experience.
• Proven experience delivering concepts, user journeys, wireframes, high fidelity designs, prototypes, and development-ready designs for mobile apps.
• Experience in user experience design, visual design, and interaction design is required.
• Strong grounding in general usability and transactional design best practices.
• Experience with major, large-scale global digital apps, web sites, or other digital products.
• Strong grounding in customer segmentation, personalization, general usability, and design best practices.

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This job is Fully Remote.

We offer several comprehensive benefits package including health and life insurance, paid and unpaid time off, and retirement and savings plans to qualifying employees.

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Sparks Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, pregnancy, citizenship, family status, genetic information, disability, or protect veteran status.