G-TECH Services is hiring: Senior UX Designer in Detroit

144+ day contract - will be in office for 1X day per week. (Detroit, MI.)

Engagement Description –

• User experience is part strategy, part research, part design.
• The UX designer works with key stakeholders and conducts research to understand business needs, end-user insights, and the competitive landscape, to shape the UX direction to achieve business objectives.
• The UX designer then creates a design based on the direction, collaborating with content writers and UI designers.
• The overall design should facilitate a user experience that is usable, accessible, and delightful to end-users using human-centered design principles and best practices.

Top 3 Required Skills/Experience – The most important must-have skills. Include:
• Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in the following:

• User research
o Conduct discovery and design research to inform UX direction and design
o Participate in design strategy activities that set the experience direction for products
• UX design
o Communicate innovative design solutions via wireframes, prototypes, and other design documents using programs such as Figma (strongly preferred), Axure, Balsamiq, Sketch or Adobe XD.
o Demonstrate using human-centered design principles and best practices.

Required Skills/Experience – The rest of the required skills/experience. Include:
• Participates in requirement-gathering activities to identify business needs, user goals and measures of success
• Visualizes concepts and design through sketches, wireframes and prototypes in order to validate product concepts with users, team members and stakeholders.
• Establishes buy-in and understanding of larger user experience design vision through presentation of artifacts (from studies to process flows)
• Plans, sets up and executes on remote or in-person usability studies to identify usability issues and opportunities for improvements
• Develops experience maps to establish the direction of the user experience across customer’s touchpoints with a product
• Researches current design and technology trends, cognitive psychology and human machine interaction
• Structure, organize and label information so that it is most meaningful to users
• Iterates on designs based on user feedback
• Advocates for human-centered design through evangelization and relationship-building

Preferred Skills/Experience – Optional but preferred skills/experience. Include:
• Strong Visual and Interaction Design skills.
• Experience creating and aligning to a design systems – Building style guides, pattern libraries, and design toolkits to codify a product’s design language.
• Basic knowledge of programing and working within complex data systems. Understand how coding or data/service limitations can affect the implementation or capabilities of a design.
• Experience leading a project and/or team. Strong leadership skills.

Education/Certifications – Include:
• Bachelor’s degree in related field required
• Master’s degree in related field preferred
• Extensive Experience in the User Experience Design field can be used to substitute education.