Posted: 02/19/2025 Employment Type: Direct Hire Industry: Information Technology Job Number: 17349 Field of Expertise: InformationTechnology Remote Friendly: Hybrid Work Schedule
Job Description
Our client, an early-stage startup that is innovating how individuals and financial institutions navigate government policy changes, is seeking a UX/UI Designer. While initially remote, this role will transition to include in-person collaboration in Atlanta (three times per week) as the team expands, fostering stronger communication and a vibrant team culture.
Position Summary:
Seeking a talented and driven UI/UX Designer to join our team and craft compelling, interactive experiences that delight users and bring our vision to life. In this role, you will lead efforts to understand user behaviors, needs, and motivations through in-depth research, ensuring that our designs are grounded in real-world insights. Your work will transform complex ideas—like those powered by AI and advanced technologies—into user-friendly designs that empower our customers.
You will collaborate closely with developers and product to bring your designs to life, ensuring they are implemented accurately and align with both user needs and business goals. By combining research, design expertise, and collaboration, you will play a critical role in shaping intuitive and engaging user experiences.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create interactive experiences that enhance the customer journey and align with the product vision.
- Develop user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs, ensuring consistency through reusable components and evolving design systems.
- Act as a visual storyteller, advocating for design excellence and creating meaningful, emotional connections between users and products.
- Apply systems-level thinking to ensure design solutions scale across products and platforms.
- Foster a customer-obsessed design culture by sharing best practices, evangelizing design principles, and influencing product strategy.
- Drive elegant design solutions from early concepts through implementation and iteration, collaborating cross-functionally to ensure success.
- Plan and execute research activities, including interviews, surveys, usability tests, and data analysis, to uncover user behaviors and pain points.
- Use customer insights and data to inform design solutions and confidently present them to stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Translate research insights into actionable recommendations that align with strategic goals and user needs.
- Collaborate with developers, product, and stakeholders to align designs with business objectives and technical feasibility.
- Create and maintain detailed documentation, including style guides, interaction flows, and research reports.
- Support graphic design needs by creating marketing materials such as presentations, social media visuals, or other assets that align with the brand and amplify the product’s reach.
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, or a related field preferred, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 5+ years of professional experience in UX/UI design, with a strong portfolio showcasing user-centered design processes and complex workflows.
- Proven track record of working in cross-functional teams, collaborating with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality products.
- Expertise in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe Creative Suite.
- Proficiency in creating wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, visual design, and information architecture.
- Familiarity with design systems and the ability to maintain and evolve reusable components.
- Knowledge of HTML/CSS and responsive design principles is a plus but not required.
- Experience conducting user research, usability testing, and synthesizing findings into actionable design solutions.
- Ability to use data and customer insights to influence design decisions.
- Creative problem-solving mindset and ability to synthesize abstract ideas into concrete design implications.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to advocate for design solutions to stakeholders and leadership.
- Comfortable working collaboratively in a team setting while also managing independent projects.
- Highly organized, self-starter with the ability to manage multiple projects in a dynamic environment.
- Constant drive to stay up-to-date with UX/UI trends, tools, and best practices.
- A link to an online portfolio showcasing relevant UX/UI design work is required.
Base Salary $140,000. Final determination of salary will be based on an evaluation of experience, education, budget, etc. #J-18808-Ljbffr