Planet Interactive is hiring: User Experience Designer in Cupertino

UX / UI Designer

Location: 100% onsite in Cupertino, CA

Duration: 6 months; potential to extend

Pay: Up to $51.25/hour DOE

Our Client's Financial Services team is seeking an experienced UX/UI Designer with experience in ecommerce, and finance products. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, work well under pressure, problem-solving, attention to detail, and the ability to mediate and cope with rapid change.

UX / UI Designer Qualifications:

• The role requires ARPA type of experience. Design approach that focuses on exploring cutting-edge, experimental ideas to create radically new and potentially disruptive user interfaces and experiences
• Highly skilled in Sketch, Figma, Keynote, and other design tools
• 2+ years of work experience: A degree in human interaction sociology, interaction design, visual design, or equivalent is preferred
• A portfolio showcasing UX, UI, and visual design work for mobile, and web is preferred.
• Previous experience working in an e-commerce environment is preferred
• An understanding of visual and communication design principles
• Able to function independently and in a team environment, with excellent collaboration skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; both written and verbal

UX / UI Designer Responsibilities:

• From brainstorming through implementation, the UX/UI Designer will work as the voice of user experience and design standards while working with business, engineering, marketing, QA, and partners
• Create and maintain design patterns and shared features
• Help product designers apply them to create a suite of elegant products that anyone can use
• Quickly grasp and distill highly complex matters into clean, understandable solutions
• Work across several teams to create consensus and provide deliverables under tight deadlines and fast-changing priorities