Protingent is hiring: UX Designer in Seattle

Position Title: UX Designer

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract-to-hire UX Designer opportunity.

Job Responsibilities:

• Conduct user research through customer interviews, surveys, and usability testing to gather insights and identify user needs, pain points, and behaviors.
• Create and maintain user journey maps, personas, and scenarios to inform design decisions.
• Translate research findings into presentations, design concepts, requirements, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, product owners, UX designers, engineers, and stakeholders, to ensure user-centered design principles are integrated throughout the development process.
• Develop and iterate on workflow and interaction designs, ensuring a seamless and intuitive user experience.
• Utilize existing Design System and UI styles to maintain design consistency across products.
• Always learning about new industry trends, competitor medical devices, best practices, and emerging technologies in UX design and research.
• Focus on streamlining workflows and improving the efficiency of user interactions to enhance overall user satisfaction and productivity.
• Identify opportunities to optimize and simplify complex processes, reducing cognitive load and minimizing user errors.
• Measure the impact of design changes on user efficiency and effectiveness, ensuring that the UX improvements directly contribute to better user outcomes and experiences.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Psychology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in UX design and user research.
• Experience conducting user research, including customer interviews, usability testing, and creating user journey maps.
• Familiarity with hardware/software integration and the challenges associated with designing for both.
• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools. We use Figma and Miro.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex research findings into actionable design solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to present ideas and influence stakeholders effectively.
• Knowledge of software development processes and the ability to work closely with development teams to ensure design implementation.
• Strong proficiency in interaction design, with a solid understanding of user-centered design principles.

Job Details:

• Job Type: Contract-to-Hire
• Pay Rate Range: $45-70/hr
• Location: Seattle, WA/Hybrid
• ITAR obligations are associated with this role, U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a) (1), (3) is required.

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.

About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates. #J-18808-Ljbffr