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eTeam is hiring: Application Development - UX Architect UX Architect in Minneapo

eTeam, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 55400


Title: UX Designer
Location: Minneapolis MN, 55402 Hybrid position -- 3 days in office at contractor's choice of days.
Duration: 6-months contract with possibility to FTE or extend

Description:
  • Experience Designers at Client are customer obsessed in developing human-cantered experiences that provide personalized, clear, helpful, and inclusive digital plus human solutions for our customers.
  • Experience designers consider the why, what, and how of product use to help identify where user needs intersect with business goals across the entire user journey. Leverages human-cantered design methods (design-thinking, service design, research/insights, etc.) to plan, create, and present persuasive, engaging, and strategic ideas that influence product roadmaps and demonstrate a solution's potential for success.
  • Performs competitive analysis of direct/indirect competitors and monitors the marketplace for new trends to inform the research and design process.
  • Partners with product managers, content strategists, research specialists, developers, testers, and compliance specialists to translate requirements into experience architectures.
  • An experience architect (XA) at client is a professional adept at planning and designing the user experience architecture of our customer-facing interfaces.
  • The XA understands the methods and tools for creating taxonomies, user flow diagrams and screen layouts, and fundamentally understands the methods and concepts related to findability and usability.
  • The ideal candidate is passionate yet patient; confident yet humble.
  • They take initiative to thoroughly understand our customers and the finance industry.
  • They are driven to create findable, usable, world-class experiences.
  • This candidate loves collaboration and can articulately communicate and clearly translate functional objectives into detailed experience specifications.
Responsibilities include:
  • Employs a range of human-centered, accessible design techniques, such as conceptual models, personas, user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes, to determine and convey design decisions.
  • Optimizes experience architecture to promote findability and usability, while accommodating technical and business needs/constraints.
  • Reviews artifacts and deliverables from peers to ensure they accurately represent or improve upon the Client layout, design and interaction patterns.
  • Accurately interprets how the Client brand is applied to interaction modules, screen layouts, style guides, pattern libraries, images, icons and other visual elements.
  • Formally observes user interviews and usability sessions.
  • Works concurrently on multiple tasks or projects in an agile environment.
  • Delivers assets of record, e.g., wireframes, versioned prototypes, flow / process diagrams, etc.
  • Participates in validating code is built as designed during projects (according to brand standards, style guides and pattern libraries).
Basic Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree (preferred Client on Service Design, Experience Architecture or Information Architecture), or equivalent experience
  • Five to eight years of related work experience, such as UX or digital industry, with at least one year of team leadership experience
Preferred Skills/Experience:
  • Thorough knowledge of user experience (UX) best practices, interactive design principles, information architecture and experience architecture; Service Design knowledge a plus
  • Thorough knowledge of design thinking process and framework, and familiarization with workshop and co-creations
  • Thorough knowledge of website architecture, interactive design principles, web usability, and online marketing and business needs
  • Experience with user-centered design from concept to delivery
  • Experience/familiarity with CSS and responsive design
  • Familiar with common design software
  • Experience working in a cross-channel environment, including desktop/laptop, mobile, devices and brick-and-mortar locations; internal facing systems experience a plus
  • Experience collaborating with large teams
  • Strong communication, facilitation and presentation skills
  • Ability to problem-solve and work independently
Skills:
  • Sketch
  • Figma
  • Adobe Creative
  • Invision
  • OmniGraffle
  • Marvel
Education:
  • Bachelors in a design related discipline such as Web Design or a related field of study or years of relevant professional experience required