Strategic Staffing Solutions is hiring: Senior UX Designer in Detroit

Senior UX Designer (Must have an online portfolio) Location: Detroit, MI 48226 Setting: Hybrid - 2-3 days Contract: 6 months contract with the chance of extending or converting Pay rate: Max rate: 58/HR 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 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 Communicate innovative design solutions via wireframes, prototypes, and other design documents using programs such as Figma (strongly preferred), Axure, Balsamiq, Sketch or Adobe XD. 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 Research 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 system - 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. "Beware of scams. S3 never asks for money during its onboarding process." Job ID: JOB-239960 Publish Date: 27 Jan 2025