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Form of workYou are the subject matter expert who understands our user's needs, desires, and behaviors. You think strategically, balancing business objectives with user needs and know how to deliver value incrementally. You drive UX and UI design for new features, capabilities, and products and are comfortable talking high-level needs with stakeholders and functionality with developers. You understand the importance of inclusion and deploy accessibility best practices and user testing at every stage. Design systems, user patterns and documentation are your daily practices.
Essential Duties:
- Design engaging user-centered experiences in web, native, and hybrid platforms
- Collaborates with stakeholders to understand and define business objectives
- Creates user journey maps, empathy maps, and user personas
- Refine, extend, and maintain enterprise design system
- Design components and document user interface states and development requirements
- Understand technical, business, and time limitations and design within these constraints
- Lead user research activities documenting and implementing actionable feedback
- Review and provide feedback for externally developed applications/products
- Stays up to date with UX best practices and industry standards
- Translates industry standards, like Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) into understandable guidelines for user experience and interface design
- Performs other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's Degree in user experience design, communication design, interaction design, or related degree. Relevant work experience may be substituted for degree on a year per year basis. Substitutions for Minimum Qualifications
Experience: 5 years experience in UX, UI or product design, or design work. (Experience can be satisfied by fulltime or prorated part time equivalent). Related graduate level education may be substituted for experience on a year per year basis. Online portfolio is required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Background in graphic design is a bonus.
Competencies:
- Proficient in Figma application and Adobe Creative Cloud suite applications
- Experience with Adobe Experience manager, Craft, Drupal, Wordpress, or other content management systems
- Solid understanding of experience design principles, best practices, and UX laws
- Strong ability to prioritize, plan and time management skills
- Experience with Confluence, Sharepoint, or other collaboration platforms
- Solid understanding of WCAG 2.0
- Demonstrated understanding of user experience and user interface design
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders, developers, and other designers
- Experience in user testing and user research
- Understanding of graphic and visual design principles
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
- Sedentary work: Lift up to 10 lbs at a time and occasionally carry files/small tools
- Sitting - prolonged periods of time
- Standing-prolonged periods of time
- Repetitive Motion-substantial movements of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers
- Close Visual Acuity-work includes data/figures; view a computer screen; extensive reading
Conditions of Employment:
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