Senior -User Experience Designer

Immediate need for a talented Senior -User Experience Designer. This is a 12+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Plano, TX (Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID: 24-01352
Pay Range: $80- $85/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:

• Simplifying and translating complex business and software development workflows into easy-to-use experiences.
• Collaborating with partners to create new interface and interactions patterns.
• Creating consistent visual conventions across the application.
• Working closely with product and customer success teams to gather and incorporate user feedback and feature requests into the interface.
• Identifying and establishing design needs, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Strategy & Planning:
• Collaborating with technology, product, and business teams to uncover customer and business needs - then translating them into transformative, Client, user friendly, and on-brand interfaces.
• Leading in translating complex ideas into understandable concepts that evolve and enhance the product interface.
• Engaging in portfolio prioritization to help set the strategy for the team.
• Managing through shifting priorities to provide clear direction and input on product definition.
• Advocating for the customer through human centered design methodologies, including: discovery, ideation, sketch sessions, and user testing.
• Creating and facilitating design led workshops to engage and build alignment across different partners and teams.
• Championing prioritization of design centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis.
• Connecting with design community peers by learning, sharing, and teaching.
• Discovery & Delivery:
• Supporting early product definition by working with partners to facilitate discovery sessions that uncover customer pain points and opportunities.
• Demonstrating familiarity with design tools to deliver concepts and enable successful collaboration across teams.
• Creating style guides, iconography, and infographics that can be leveraged by teams.
• Drive end-to-end product design by:
• Working with researchers to understand customer needs and interpreting information into visual forms that are impactful and Client.
• Framing problems, determining insights, and defining visual designs to serve customer needs.
• Ideating, sketching, and delivering low to high fidelity prototypes.
• Designing within existing - and creating new - standards to contribute to our internal design system, best practices, and guidelines.
• Storytelling and presenting visual concepts to various stakeholders.
• Creating high fidelity design assets for acceptance, development, and delivery to market in partnership with technology colleagues.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience in user interface design.
• Experience designing software or mobile applications, enterprise applications a bonus.
• Experience creating responsive web layouts.
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and writing code.
• Familiarity with product development from inception to release.
• Comfortable working with a variety of business partners and delivering outcomes.
• Familiarity with design and prototyping tools, such as Sketch and/or Figma.
• Familiarity with working in an established design system.
• Experience creating components and interactive Wireframes, mockups and interactive Prototype using Figma.
• Experience in HTML, React and CSS.
• Experience in Gravity Framework.
• Experience collaborating using Git, Client, Jira, Confluence.
• Bachelor’s degree or military experience.
• Advanced degree, trainings, or certifications in User Interface design.
• Designing for cross-channel experiences.
• Experience designing for cross channel experiences.
• Experience managing a cross-functional team.
• Experience in conducting Research using any of the tools listed: User survey, Personas hypothesis, Heuristic evaluation, Data analysis, Ethnographic Research, Competitive Analysis, A/B testing, Focus groups, Eye tracking, Usability testing.

Our client is a leading Banking & Financial Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
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