Job Description
As a skilled UX designer — with clients, project managers, designers, engineers, and more — you will advocate for the user’s wants, needs, and what they expect from the products we create. You are innovative, quick-thinking, and eager to learn more about what’s happening in the interactive space. Your UX design skills are top-notch, and you have a knack for making the complex clear.
We are looking for passionate individuals to drive user research, prototyping, and experience design to provide our clients the best solutions. Our designers tackle anything and everything for our clients. As a creative, you will have unlimited opportunities to become a subject matter expert in a variety of technologies, industry sectors, and work with some of the biggest brands in the world.
What You’ll Do
· Act as a UX designer on projects; lead discovery, requirement gathering, research, benchmarking, wireframe creation, and client reviews
· Bring user-centered design (UCD) process methods to digital solutions from concept to launch
· Work with clients to understand and distill complex problems into elegant, informed solutions
· Identify and execute on the best methods for user research and testing within client constraints
· Design and deliver information architecture, wireframes, user personas and journeys, and prototypes optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
· Provide constructive and user centered information to clients, advocating for UCD
· Integrate with cross-functional teammates (Visual Design, Development, Engagement Managers, and Project Managers) to produce best-in-industry solutions for projects
· Present creative work and articulate the team’s design process directly to the client
· Participate in team design reviews, giving constructive feedback and design critiques.
· A clear passion and enthusiasm for learning and pursuing your expertise
You bring
· 3+ years of experience in UX or interaction design with heavy emphasis on solid human-centered design methods
· An inspiring portfolio showing us how you have researched and crafted great experiences, seeing them through to released products
Experience with:
· Planning for and delivering experience design projects
· Reviewing existing systems and processes to identify UX issues and develop UX recommendations
· UX research, including planning, designing and facilitating user sessions and client workshops, analyzing findings and articulating results
· Information architecture, user and screen flows, conceptual and detailed wireframing and prototyping
· Working in a wide variety of modern design tools like Sketch, Axure, Principle, Framer, InVision and the Adobe Creative Suite
Ability to:
· Approach design challenges with and open mind
· Organize, self-direct, and prioritize to get things done
· Articulate and champion your design solutions based on human-centered design principles and research data
· Work independently and in groups as needed
· Experiment with emerging technology, design trends, tools and methods
· A passion for learning and pursuing your craft
· Strong written and verbal communication skills
Bonus Points
· Experience working in the agile methodology
· Qualitative and quantitative research methodologies
· Motion design and animation
· UI and visual design chops
Why Affirma?
· One of Washington's Fastest Growing Private Companies & Top 100 Best Companies to Work For (According to Seattle Business Magazine and Puget Sound Business Journal)
· Casual environment, surrounded by incredibly intelligent and motivated co-workers, and a performance-driven culture
· Flexible Schedule
Requirements
Adobe Creative Suite;UX design
