Ux Designer

Title:UX Designer
Location: Houston, TX - REMOTE
Duration: 6+ month contract
Compensation: $50-60/hr.
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

User Experience (UX) Designer will work with Marketing, Product Owners (PO) and IT development team to drive the user experience design process from conceptualization, detailed user interfaces, and functional design through implementation of features and usability review. This individual will work closely with the engineering team to build functional features and products through design work and user research.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Develop process flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Communicate high-level design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors.
• Design landing pages and site interactions to segment users, effectively convey product benefits and drive higher conversions.
• Work collaboratively with developers and designers to build scalable solutions to improve the user experience.
• Design, conceptualize, and create customer-centric experiences across the entire software product lifecycle.
• Work closely with lean, cross-functional Agile teams.
• Create lasting, effective partnerships with our engineering, product, and business teams to find elegant and practical solutions to address design challenges.
• Rapidly produce concepts and prototypes for POC opportunities.
• Facilitate effective design, test concepts, and conduct quantitative and/or qualitative research with users, such as usability studies, interviews, & surveys.
• Remain up to date on best practices, trends and patterns in modern UX design.
• In project meetings, design sessions, or other relevant contexts, champion the needs of the user, focusing on a human-centered design philosophy.
• Improve the user experience and iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing feedback
• Balance between business requirements and user needs.
• Employ existing UX patterns & defined conventions and standards.
• Incorporate user feedback, design best practices, and business understanding into effective designs.
• Engage in iterative design processes and agile development methodologies.
• Produce design assets from low fidelity concepts through to high fidelity wireframes that can be brought to life by the Digital Development teams.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $50.00 - $60.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Compensation package:

• Hourly pay

Experience level:

• 6 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• Please provide a link to your portfolio?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Figma: 5 years (Required)
• UX Designer: 5 years (Required)
• energy industry: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote