What are the responsibilities and job description for the UX Designer Senior position at TekWissen LLC?
Overview :
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a health insurance company. It offers different types of health care coverage plans that include individual and family, dental and vision, plans for employers, etc.
Title : UX Designer Senior
Work Location : Detroit, MI, 48226
Duration : 6 Months
Job Type : Contract
Work Type : Onsite
Dept : Transparency
Engagement Description :
User experience is part strategy, part research, part design.
The UX designer works with key stakeholders and conducts research to understand business needs, end-user insights, and the competitive landscape, to shape the UX direction to achieve business objectives.
The UX designer then creates a design based on the direction, collaborating with content writers and UI designers.
The overall design should facilitate a user experience that is usable, accessible, and delightful to end-users using human-centered design principles and best practices.
Top 3 Required Skills / Experience The most important must-have skills. Include :
Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in the following :
User research
Conduct discovery and design research to inform UX direction and design
Participate in design strategy activities that set the experience direction for products
UX design
Communicate innovative design solutions via wireframes, prototypes, and other design documents using programs such as Figma (strongly preferred), Axure, Balsamiq, Sketch or Adobe XD.
Demonstrate using human-centered design principles and best practices.
Required Skills / Experience The rest of the required skills / experience.
Include :
Participates in requirement-gathering activities to identify business needs, user goals and measures of success
Visualizes concepts and design through sketches, wireframes and prototypes in order to validate product concepts with users, team members and stakeholders.
Establishes buy-in and understanding of larger user experience design vision through presentation of artifacts (from studies to process flows)
Plans, sets up and executes on remote or in-person usability studies to identify usability issues and opportunities for improvements
Develops experience maps to establish the direction of the user experience across customer's touchpoints with a product
Research current design and technology trends, cognitive psychology and human machine interaction
Structure, organize and label information so that it is most meaningful to users
Iterates on designs based on user feedback
Advocates for human-centered design through evangelization and relationship-building
Preferred Skills / Experience Optional but preferred skills / experience. Include :
Strong Visual and Interaction Design skills.
Experience creating and aligning to a design systems Building style guides, pattern libraries, and design toolkits to codify a product's design language.
Basic knowledge of programing and working within complex data systems. Understand how coding or data / service limitations can affect the implementation or capabilities of a design.
Experience leading a project and / or team. Strong leadership skills.
Education / Certifications Include :
Bachelor's degree in related field required
Master's degree in related field preferred
Extensive Experience in the User Experience Design field can be used to substitute education.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
