Job Description
Job Description: Pay Range: $95hr - $100hr
Responsibilities:
UI/UX Leadership:
- Define and lead the UX design strategies for product experiences.
- Create high-Client designs that enhance the usability and accessibility of heavy data experiences.
- Partner closely with product owners, developers, and other stakeholders to generate innovative concepts.
- Collaborate closely with UX designers, and developers to integrate visual design seamlessly into product experiences.
- Conduct design reviews, provide feedback to ensure the highest quality of visual execution across all projects.
- Stay current on the latest UX design trends and technologies, influencing the future of user experience.
- Champion design best practices and establish new patterns, contributing to a design system that ensures scalability across our product suite.
- Present design concepts and ideas clearly and persuasively to design leadership and executives, fostering collaboration and buy-in.
- Mentor and collaborate with junior designers and cross teams, fostering a strong design culture.
UI/UX Development:
- Lead design-related meetings with key stakeholders to ensure clarity of project goals and objectives and a consistent, cohesive user experience.
- Collaborate with Product Management, UX Leadership and Engineering to develop informed design decisions for better outcomes.
- Use HTML5/SCSS/JS compliant code to translate design solutions into interactive prototypes.
- Advocate for the user with user-centered, empathetic design strategies.
- Clearly communicate design decisions to peers and key stakeholders.
- Participate in Agile Scrum Process to quickly iterate through designs and gain approvals from key stakeholders.
- Participate in usability testing.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Trust-based relationship with the team.
- Curious - Asks good questions, observes, takes notes of what motivates team members.
- Ability to connect to the bigger picture.
- Involves the right people in decision making.
- Ability to give feedback for growth, coach, sponsor, and support digital product owners.
- Leads and drives a culture of trust and continuous improvement on teams.
- Builds trust and a structure around which we collaborate.
- Removes blockers - Setting up escalation paths for people.
- Creates a high-performance, transparent environment focused on accountability and results.
Leads Organisational Change:
- Advocates for change to improve larger structures around the team and the department.
- Manages candidate own manager (manage up).
- Builds frameworks and standards - While it is always important to make room for individual needs, structures and frameworks for managers help us hold each other accountable.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of previous experience in UX design and development, Strong grasp of atomic design.
- A portfolio that demonstrates a solid grasp of design principles and HTML/SCSS mastery.
- Solid understanding of web best practices, information architecture, usability, heuristics and accessibility.
- Strong understanding of responsive design principles.
- Up to date with the latest web trends, techniques, and technologies.
- Proficient in design tools including Figma is a plus.
- Experience with facilitation/collaboration tools such as Jira, Miro, MS Teams.
- Experience working with design systems.
- Ability to multitask while maintaining attention to detail.
- Consistently meets required deadlines.
- Comfortable working closely with other designers, project managers and developers.
- An eagerness to grow as a team and open to give and receive constructive feedback.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Knowledge of Agile / Scrum, particularly as related to modern development environments for web and mobile.
- Domain experience in data, analytics, insurance industry.
Cynet Systems
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