What are the responsibilities and job description for the User Experience Designer position at Tava Partners?
As a User Experience Designer, you know what it means to create effective, efficient and beautiful interactions in dashboards, data visualizations, enterprise applications and information systems.
Teams and clients will look to you to support designs that adhere to usability best practices and leverage knowledge about users’ behavior. You will help to create interfaces that enable people to successfully achieve quantified objectives effectively and efficiently, across a range of digital and Business Intelligence solutions for mobile and Web.
Responsibilities
Work within a user-centered, collaborative design process
- Work within a user-centered, collaborative design process
- Support other members of the UX Team throughout all stages of the user-centered design process
- Implement best practices for user experience design, leveraging industry standards
- Demonstrate awareness of business goals while working with senior members of the UX team to create highly usable and engaging end-to-end user experiences
Help to create and support best-in-class UX Design
- Demonstrate an ability to understand an end user’s perspective from user research findings
- Under the direction of a senior UX designer, create navigation and user interfaces with sitemaps, paper prototypes or wireframes, screen mock ups, behavioral specifications, style guidelines, icons, information graphics and other design artifacts as needed
- Ensure all UI definition and development is consistent with usability standards and best practices
- Strive for optimal usability and user engagement and understand the technical limitations of different client platforms
Qualifications
- Candidates who hold at least a Bachelor’s in Design, Fine Arts, or a related visual art field, and have a foundational understanding of usability design best practices; additional degrees or certifications in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors (CUA™), or related field, or equivalent work experience is preferred.
- We are looking for individuals with 2-4 years of experience in the field of User Experience, with a focus on designing and delivering business or enterprise applications that are complex, high-volume, and high profile, including portals, business applications, mobile apps, interactive dashboards, data visualization and information design.
- A strong portfolio featuring design work that showcases information architecture, interaction design, information design, visual design and/or mobile design skills and how the designs lead to positive business outcomes;
- Expertise using design tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Knowledge of user-centered design principles, careful attention to detail and ability to grasp complex, nuanced product requirements;
- Experience working with cross-functional teams, including UX, business (eg. Marketing, Sales), product management and/or technology/IT/engineering) is preferred;
- Exposure to basic user research techniques such as contextual inquiry, user interviews, usability testing, card sorting and/or related techniques is preferred.
- An understanding of modern code, like HTML 5, JavaScript and CSS, and other multimedia production to create working prototypes and interactive stories is highly desirable.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER STATEMENT
Tava Partners provides equal employment opportunities and does not permit any form of discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. We value diversity, inclusion, and fairness in all aspects of employment.
