Job Description
Russell Tobin and Associates/Pride Global is currently seeking a User Experience Designer to work for our client in Seattle, WA. The position is a 6-month contract with the possibility of extension. Apply now, for immediate consideration!
Title: User Experience Designer - Device and Services Design
Pay Rate: $55.00 - $65.00/hourly
Work Location: Onsite 5 days/week in Seattle, WA
Duration: 6 month contract role with a possibility of extension
Schedule: 40 hours week // 9am-5pm // M - F
Our client is seeking a User Experience Designer to lead the development of their TV Channels app. You'll shape the user experience for this diverse and free streaming service, featuring news, sports, entertainment, and more from trusted providers. From the beginning, you will play an integral role in defining problems, building customer journeys, prototyping, and designing delightful and highly usable digital experiences within the TV Channels app. You will invent and deliver throughout the product development lifecycle and build customer-focused solutions at scale.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Refine the UI architecture, interface, and interaction flows for the TV Channels app.
- Own the end-to-end process, from problem definition to delivery.
- Use business requirements, user and market research to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements to shape product strategy.
- Work with partners to identify key jobs to be done and business goals.
- Explore and communicate your ideas for new experiences using wireframes, visual mockups, and prototypes.
- Develop conceptual models that work across a system of devices.
- Design highly usable digital experiences by rapidly prototyping, testing, and iterating on designs with internal partners.
- Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications and design patterns.
- Work with project managers to plan projects for effective delivery while maintaining high standards for design.
- Be a passionate and effective advocate for design with non-design audiences.
- Write effectively to communicate design rationales and benefits to client customers.
- Guide a cross-functional team and elevate the culture of UX thinking and design excellence.
A Day in the Life
In this highly visible role, you will use business requirements as well as user and market research to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements that will improve the TV Channels app experience. On a daily basis, you will collaborate with a team of world-class multi-disciplinary designers, researchers, engineers, product managers, and executives. You will use a variety of methods, including wireframes, prototypes, motion studies, and high-fidelity mockups to communicate design thinking to senior leadership, engineering, and product partners throughout product development.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of design experience
- An available online portfolio.
- Knowledge of best practices for information architecture and design.
- Have work samples demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns across multiple products and experiences.
- Experience working with product managers and engineers to understand technical requirements and the ability to translate these into user experience requirements.
- Experience working end-to-end with product and developer partners: defining problems and customer experience outcomes, building workflows, and evaluating prototypes.
- Familiarity with Material UI (React) component libraries and experience adding to, maintaining, managing, and scaling design systems.
- Experience prototyping user journeys using Figma, ProtoPie, or similar tools.
Russell Tobin is a leading minority-owned professional and technical recruitment and staffing advisory organization. We are comprised of specialized practices focusing on a variety of skill sets and industries. Having a depth and breadth of industry expertise, our subject matter experts are able to provide tailored and swift sourcing solutions to fulfill client hiring needs. In other words, we connect top talent with companies.
As a certified minority-owned business, Pride Global and its affiliates - including Russell Tobin, Pride Health, and Pride Now - are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.
Russell Tobin offers eligible employees comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), a 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, legal support, auto and home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts with some preferred vendors.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
As a certified minority-owned business, Pride Global and its affiliates - including Russell Tobin, Pride Health, and Pride Now - are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.
Pride Global offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance, and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts.