What are the responsibilities and job description for the UI/UX Designer position at Landrum Talent Solutions (formerly hrQ & Ceres Talent)?
We’re looking for a contract-to-perm UI/UX Developer for a national trade association headquartered in Washington, DC. Reporting to the Senior Director of User Experience, you’ll be responsible for managing the online experience for all digital properties including websites, apps, and microsites. The best candidates have, in addition to UI Development and UX design, experience in personalization and testing on a variety of platforms to create a high value, connected, and actionable customer experience. This role requires U.S. work authorization; sponsorship will not be available.
Location: hybrid, with 2 days in the DC office. This is a contract position expected to convert to full-time in 2025.
What You’ll Do:
- Work with stakeholders to understand goals, gather business requirements and make recommendations for design and user experience.
- Manage web design & development project timelines and communications.
- Collaborate with other UI/UX developers, content strategists, and UX designers to develop design solutions, through whiteboarding, wireframes, and prototyping that all meet brand standards.
- Develop and maintain front-end code on web properties.
- Build high-quality, interactive prototypes that can be used by back-end developers and
- shared with project stakeholders.
- Support ad hoc requests for front-end code needs, from other departments, for external digital projects.
- Share code contributions through JIRA and Git and collaborate with the team to ensure code is built into higher environments and tested on schedule for a successful sprint.
- Assist in QA before all code deployments, to ensure that developed code delivers expected results and there is no unexpected degradation of existing code.
- Optimize web pages for efficiency and UI code.
- Lead external development vendors on improvements and code changes as needed.
- Help to resolve issues with unexpected Sitecore behaviors.
The Quals You’ll Need
- 5 years’ experience in UI/UX development.
- Expert proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and Bootstrap.
- MUST have prior work with a .NET platform such as Sitecore.
- Adobe Creative suite for creating and manipulating graphics.
- Wireframes experience (Azure preferred).
- Azure DevOps or JIRA, including code commitments.
- GitHub.
- Experience working with developers to provide code that meets business requirements of the CMS.
- Familiarity with accessibility standards and willingness to work with external ADA Audit team.
- Strong portfolio of prior work products, with clear explanations of personal contributions to each project.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as HCI, computer science, or visual design desired; equivalent professional experience will be considered.
- Excellent verbal communication skills and good interpersonal skills
Bonus Points
- .NET CMS system certification, especially Sitecore.
- SEO understanding.
- Familiarity with using schema.org microdata.
