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My name is Aditya Kumar and I am a Staffing Specialist at Stellent IT LLC. I am reaching out to you on an exciting job opportunity with one of our clients. If are you Comfortable with this Position then please share me your updated resume.

Job Title Senior User Experience Designer

Location Reston, VA (Remote with some Travel)

Duration 12 Month

Job Description

This is purely a research role. They are looking for someone with a proven background in UX research. Meeting with users and teams and creating Journey Maps. Mural software experience preferred (or some type of white board tool)

PURPOSE:

The Senior User Experience Designer is proficient at user research, interaction design and visual design. The individual will collaborate with Product Management, End users, Business stakeholders and Engineering teams to ensure that there is clear understanding of the expected user experience, and create scalable design solutions for the product. The Senior User Experience Designer will leverage their deep knowledge of user-centered design processes and methodology to create optimal user experiences. They will conceptualize innovative solutions, create user experience specifications, workflows, mockups etc to meet or exceed the needs of end users and stakeholders. As a valued member of the UX team, the individual will use their skills and insights in a collaborative, agile environment to deliver great experiences across products/platforms. Provides mentorship and guidance to team members. Strong presentation and facilitation skills.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

35% Interaction Design to lead card sorting activities, Create Content strategy. Conceptualize navigation schemas, search schema & taxonomies. Identify user scenarios, Create sitemap, task flows, user flows and wireframes. Lead the team to review UX interaction design and provide guidance and mentorship.

30% Visual Design to create UI mockups, Review UI mockup's created by UX team members and provide guidance to the team members to improve the design. Contribute to the improvement of enterprise level Design system and supports its maintenance. Collaborate with development team to ensure the UX/UI standards/guidelines can be applied to development artifacts in the final delivery of the product.

20% UX Research to lead UX research phase. Define UX research technique. Recruit user research participants. Conduct stakeholder interviews, user interviews. Deliver user research findings or reports. Conduct competitive analysis, market assessment, heuristic evaluation and deliver result or reports. Develop personas, empathy maps and user journey maps. Perform quantitative, qualitative user testing and compile finding reports. Mentoring other team members on the research technique.

15% UX Strategy & Planning to define UX strategy for the product. Create UX roadmap. Plan UX activities and deliverables.

Define UX metrics and use that to improve the user experience through out product lifecycle; leveraging web analytics where required.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable

accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree

Experience: 5 years related experience

In Lieu of Education

In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

Knowledge of markup language HTML/CSS., Advanced

Experience in user research and user testing tools, Advanced

Basic knowledge of Lean UX and Agile environments., Expert

Excellent communication skills both written and verbal., Expert

Ability to analyze, organize and prioritize work while meeting multiple deadlines., Advanced

Experience in Adobe XD, Axure, Balsamiq, Invision, UXPin, InDesign, Sketch;, Advanced

The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes them ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs. Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time. Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.

Licenses/Certifications

User Experience \Certified User Experience Professional (CUEP) Pref

Aditya Kumar
Sr. Technical Recruiter

Email:

Aditya@stellentit.com

Telephone:
+1 732-795-9133

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