UI/UX Designer

This position is an onsite position located in our Dallas, TX office. 

The ideal candidate should have a strong portfolio demonstrating their ability to design effective user interfaces and experiences. They should be skilled in UX research, wireframing, prototyping, and visual design. The candidate should also have a solid understanding of current design trends and be able to incorporate them into their work.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs for our web applications
• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
• Design graphic user interface elements
• Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems
• Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors, and images
• Translate the Product Owner’s vision and user stories into a visual representation for project stakeholders and developers to see how a feature should look
• Conduct user research and test to gather insights and identify user needs and pain points
• Develop and maintain design guidelines and standards
• Stay up to date with current design trends and technologies
• Iterate designs based on user feedback and testing results

Critical Competencies:

• Ownership & Execution - Demonstrates a sense of ownership to drive issues to closure, maximizes the use of existing processes while continuously pursuing ways to improve efficiencies, sets aggressive goals, monitors progress, and delivers results, seizes more opportunities than others
• Collaboration & Teambuilding - Builds and maintains relationships to successfully work toward common strategic goals, creates strong morale and spirit, fosters open dialogue, creates a sense of unity among team
• Enthusiasm & Passion - Communicates a compelling and inspired vision of core purpose, focused on the future (not the past), inspires others to take the journey, sparks passion and creativity among those around them

The Individual:

• Strong portfolio showcasing skills in user-centered design, information architecture, and visual design
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, in particular, XD & Figma
• Knowledge of design principles, including typography, color theory, and composition
• Ability to create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to be self-directed and work independently, as well as collaboratively as part of an Agile Scrum Product Team to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience
• Up to date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies