Apex Systems is hiring: User Experience Designer in Spring

• 1-2 Senior Designers Generalists (able to lead small team)
• Need candidates for this
• Concerns on attention to detail (typos in portfolio), Descriptions for personas/names didn't match up in case studies,project descriptions weren't detailed, concerns on level of polish for final presentation

Lead UI/UX/Strategy Designer

Lead UI/UX/Strategy designers lead activities to conceptualize, create, and improve product and service experiences. They are experts at applying human-centered design to solve challenging problems and create meaningful experiences. They mentor design team members to excel by sharing their design expertise and facilitating critique sessions to improve designs. Significant experience in complex domains.

If you also have experience with design systems, AI-focused projects, and/or service design, then that would be an added bonus!

Job Requirements

• Ability to run a small team of designers (2-4)
• Ideally, someone that is a solid UI/UX Designer with some experience in strategy + research as well
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Designed human-centered experiences for numerous products and/or services
• Demonstrated design deliverables and approaches in a professional portfolio
• Conceptualized and evaluated designs based on user research findings, design critiques, and industry best practices
• Leveraged advanced functionality of leading design software (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch) to create designs
• Worked on projects with complex challenges (e.g. remote teams, cultural barriers, technology constraints)
• Aligned software developers with design specifications to implement designs

Expectations and Mindset

• Commitment to keep up to date on design industry trends, improve skills, and share approaches with others
• Teamwork and collaboration skills that support cross-disciplinary design teams
• Desire to drive design standards and practices across design teams

Nice to Have / Bonus Skills:

• Design systems (building or growing an existing design system, perspectives on approaches with design systems)
• AI-focused projects
• Service Design

• 1 Jr – Mid Designer Generalist for Exploration project (that is backfilling a current team member moving over as a Lead)
• Need candidates for this

Required Skills:Junior to Mid-level designer

• Designed workflows/modernized workflows
• Designed around data

UX/interaction design skills

• Wireframing
• Prototyping – low to medium fidelity

UI/Visual skills – established patterns there, will be able to pull as needed

Light research skills

• Light interviewing
• Usability testing

All web based applications

Experience collaborating with product and development teams

UI/UX front end development skills – Angular, Github, HTML, CSS is a huge plus

• If they could develop that would be great, but understand to be able to

Portfolio: Process, case studies – want to see organized thoughts, showing the full end to end lifecycle of a design – show some pictures of sketches and how that turns into low fidelity prototypes – thinking in terms of doing usability testing and validating designs. Evidence of testing and results, how to incorporate findings from testing and research into design and what final product is.