Senior User Experience Design Analyst Job at Motion Recruitment in Durham

Our client, a nationally recognized and award-winning company in the health insurance vertical, has a contract opening for a Senior User Experience Design Analyst Job. They have over 4 million customers and 5,000+ employees dedicated to providing innovative solutions that simplify the healthcare system, improve efficiency and outcomes while reducing costs.

Location: ** While the position is Remote, work from home, you must reside in North Carolina or one of the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Contract Duration: 6 + Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required). In lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience in related field
• 5+ years of experience in related field.
• Strong in UX, mapping high level user flows.
• Working with design systems in Figma
• Comfortable with UI
• Doesn't get too stuck on a single idea; can come up with more than one way to solve a problem.
• Component enhancements
• Understanding Enterprise platforms and application
• Concept of Data Visualization

Desired Skills & Experience

• Understanding of UX writing, content hierarchy and comfortable adding placeholder content into their designs (not lorem ipsum)

What You Will Be Doing • Act as a lead resource for the team; aid on work issues, processes, or procedures.
• Review and provide feedback on information architecture, wireframes, test plans and other deliverables to ensure they align with standards and meet the business goals and objectives.
• Assist management with employee development initiatives, including coaching, performance feedback and training.
• Acts as the key liaison with 3rd party development vendors to provide usability feedback on their delivery of web sites and that will function or be connected to the environment.
• Facilitate creative discussions, review meetings, and ensure team collaboration on projects.
• Develop and implement usability standards and best practices that align with our corporate standards and usability best practices.
• Represent the voice of the user.
o Evangelize the importance of usability and drive user-experience design principles within the organization, and effectively present recommendations at the Director and VP level.
o Lead the user experience design on multiple large-scale projects or complex applications
• Lead staff in the planning and coordination of user research.
o Oversee and conduct user research as required.
• Proactively identify and communicate issues and opportunities
• Conduct site visits, contextual inquiries, lab-based and remote usability tests, surveys and/or other research to identify, understand and prioritize user needs and workflows; and prioritize and promote design recommendations based on research findings.
• Design user interfaces
o Translate business requirements, use cases and functional specifications into information architecture, user interface and interaction design for optimal user experiences
o Develop user experience documentation (wireframes and flows) detailing proposed solutions and revise as necessary to achieve stakeholder approval
• Evaluate proposed and existing designs
o Proactively drive UXD standards and process improvements on all projects
o Evaluate UI design at all stages of the development lifecycle (in wireframe form, in development and after implementation)
o Plan, organize and conduct usability testing sessions with both internal and external users
o Work collaboratively with Web Experience team members to ensure that visual design is user-friendly and consistent, and that copy is clear, concise, and user-friendly
****To be eligible to contract at this client you must be able to pass a drug test and criminal background check

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP's Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Posted by: Andrew Chadwick

Specialization: Project Management