Senior UI/UX Designer, Contract

Overview of Role

66degrees is seeking a Senior UI/UX Designer for a 5 week contract assignment with a client of ours which has potential to extend. This contract project has a focus on mobile KPI dashboard development. The Senior UX/UI Designer will capture business requirements and translate the users’ needs into tangible solutions in the form of user interface (UI) designs. They will ensure the implementation of enhanced user experiences, iterate through complex problems, and translate insights into ideas that form disruptive and innovative new features. The ideal candidate will have proficiency in UX research, UX design, interaction design and UI design in mobile and web contexts.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery workshops to capture business requirements, success criteria, and constraints
• Conduct user research and user interviews
• Take broad, conceptual ideas and user requirements, and turn them into highly usable designs
• Work closely with product, development, and engineering teams to validate design solutions, and participate in iterative product enhancement cycles
• Create new concepts, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes based on internal requirements and creative briefs
• Establish visual and interactive standards documentation, and work with the development team to ensure that designs fit the technical specifications of the product or application
• Cultivate an understanding of industry trends and regularly use this information. Must be eager to give and receive feedback from other designers and product team members
• Develop and maintain style guides and asset libraries to support web and mobile interface design
• Conducting usability testing to quantify user time-on-task and identify and address usability issues and improve overall user experience

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a UI Designer, Product Designer, Interactive Designer or similar role
• Experience designing for mobile environments/Responsive Design is required
• Strong knowledge of web, mobile, and interactive design principles including layout, grid systems, information design and typography
• Online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions for web and mobile applications. Prior experience with user dashboards or analytical applications is a huge advantage
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, and the ability to articulate strategies to clients
• Up-to-date knowledge of web and mobile trends and technology, and thorough understanding of interface design and usability standards
• Strong conceptual skills and proven ability to create rapid wireframes/mockups and prototypes
• Software experience with:
• Figma and/or Sketch
• Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator
• Prototyping tools, such as Invision or prototyping within Figma
• MicroStrategy, Looker, Tableau, or other analytical platforms is a plus
• Data analytics and data visualization tools, mandatory if lacking in BI tool experience
• Google Suite (Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Docs) is a plus
• Organized, self motivated and proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritizing and managing work against project timelines in a fast-paced environment

66degrees is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status or other legally protected class.