We are offering a long-term contract opportunity for a User Experience (UX) Designer. The workplace is dynamic, fast-paced, and collaborative, where you will be responsible for creating user-centered designs by understanding business requirements, user feedback, and usability findings.
Overview: As a UX Designer, you will play a pivotal role in creating intuitive, user-focused designs that enable our software solutions to deliver exceptional experiences. Your responsibilities will span across UX artifact creation, user research, usability testing, and component library development. The position involves collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to align designs with business objectives, customer feedback, and engineering capabilities.
Responsibilities:
Design & UX Artifact Creation:
- Develop and produce UX artifacts such as user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity visual designs, and interactive prototypes to ensure a seamless user experience
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Business, Marketing, and other stakeholders to ensure shared alignment on goals and key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Incorporate team feedback to refine sketches and designs, ensuring they are optimized for code translation by the software engineering team
- Create prototypes to gather user insights and drive customer-centric iterations
User Research & Usability Testing:
- Conduct user research and usability testing to ensure the software products are easy-to-use and resonate with customer needs
- Evaluate and implement the appropriate tools and services to enhance user experience and processes
- Uncover opportunities for continuous improvement in product usability
Component Library Development:
- Develop scalable, modular, and reusable UI components to accelerate consistency and efficiency within the engineering team
- Ensure consistent implementation of designs across platforms for uniform user experience
- Simplify the management of UI assets to support developers
- 5+ years of relevant work experience
- Experience designing SaaS SMB & consumer apps (ideally with a background in cybersecurity.)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills are required for this role.
- The candidate must be a good fit with the corporate and team values.
- Degree in Art or Design preferred
- Prior work on SMB and consumer SaaS products
- Track record of success in delivering high-quality software products
- Excellent project management skills