User Experience Designer

**A portfolio of work is required to apply for this position.

PR: $40hr-50hr

Remote

12-18month contract, extensions and perm possible

Position Description:

Our client is looking for a Senior User Experience Designer experienced in the design of complex business to consumer web and mobile applications. You will be collaborating with a dedicated business and engineering team to enhance the customer experience and ease-of-use for an existing consumer commerce platform. This will require transforming complex data, workflow processes and end user requirements into user-friendly web and mobile interfaces.

A solid grounding in information architecture is critical for developing interface concepts around the data workflow, presentation, and manipulation of data. The designer will be expected to employ user-centered design methodologies to develop an understanding of user goals and tasks along with validation of designs as part of the usability and interface design process. Prior experience in markets dealing with presentation of complex workflows, commerce tasks, and data heavy requirements to consumers is desirable.

This is NOT a marketing, branding, or front-end coding position.

Designs will be storyboarded and iterated using wireframes with follow through to higher fidelity prototypes in a collaborative and user-focused environment with business, product, business analyst, and engineering stakeholders. The designer must have the experience to lead, support and defend best practices and user-centered design decisions towards creating best of breed designs. Designs will be validated with a combination of user-testing and analytics for released functions. Detailed product design and implementation will be in an agile development setting. Visual/graphic design experience is advantageous but not a requirement for the position, however a strong aesthetic design sense is necessary.