Role: Sr./Lead UX Designer
Team: ONEUX INDIA
Location: Hyderabad, India
About This Opportunity
Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals.
As an Interaction Designer you'll take the lead as you
- Will be facilitating Design Thinking and Design Studio from your cross functional product teams for successful product Innovation and UX Design
- Are expected to work as a facilitator and constantly help facilitate discussion around business value and user stories and help Product discovery and agile development team with backlog creation and prioritization.
- Will be responsible for your UX teams velocity and produce rich deliverables keeping up with the fast-paced sprints and stakeholder UX reviews meetings.
- Help lead the development of the holistic vision, UX strategy and roadmap for products and services, focusing on innovation and user centric strategies.
- Partner with other user experience practitioners, user interface developers, product management, marketing and product development to implement best practices and ensure visual, functional and conceptual unity.
- Create best in class user experience deliverables, including wireframes, prototypes, personas, heuristic evaluations, usability research plans, high quality visuals to best implement the intended user experience.
Education
- B.Des./M. Des/ Bachelors/Masters in HCI, Psychology, Human Factors or related field from IIT/NID or other top Design schools
Experience
- 7+ years of the following experiences: User Experience Design, Information Architecture (IA), Interaction Design, Visual Design or related fields in the design of web and mobile applications.
- Creation of IA documents such as wireframes, customer journey maps, user stories, personas, high quality visuals and other user-centric documentation
- Proven ability in Interaction Design, Visual Design for Enterprise Web/SaaS/Mobile applications
- Strong understanding of Interaction and Visual Design principles and the latest standards like Windows 10, IOS 7, Material Design
- Fluent in creating high quality Photoshop pixel perfect visuals.
- Familiar with the latest points of view on responsive design and design for cross platform & mobile devices
- Practice in user research techniques and tools, including customer interviews, usability testing, contextual inquiry and un-facilitated techniques.
- Fluent with software tools for wireframes and prototypes such as Axure, Balsamiq, Invision and Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator.
- Experience working with remote teams and the use of remote tools.
- Proven conceptual skills, a critical eye for detail, and the ability to translate complex concepts into a clear visual representation.
- Must be able to provide portfolio of user interface design work and demonstrate track record of bottom-line impact resulting from user interface design.
Strong Driver for Design Process -
- Plays a central role within the product team or customer group as a driver for the design process and product/domain strategy.
- Proactively identifies new initiatives and seeks out areas for improvement; involves others in the organization.
- Fluent with Lean Innovation like Lean canvas, Design Thinking Tools, Journey Maps, storyboarding, sketching, low and high-fidelity mock-ups and wireframes
- Incorporates and collaborates on higher-level cross-product/domain design patterns and/or standards (this bullet is not clear to me)
- Acts in a way that inspires other team members to engage and contribute.
- Maintains the cohesiveness of the UX team.
- Works at a peer-level with Executives and Senior Product Management and Engineering; is a trusted collaborator on product/domain direction and key decisions.
- Deftly handles team politics; knows when to push back and when to acquiesce.
- Able to review and critique the work of others in a way that makes them receptive to feedback.
- Actions have a measurable impact on both the product experience and their teammates.
- Demonstrates design leadership within the team by advocating effectively for the user.
- Contributes to and promotes the mission and goals of UX both internally and externally.
- Solid Team Skills Works well with a team.
- Works closely and effectively with other designers, managers, Product Management, and Engineering; knows when to seek help.
- Receives, weighs, and integrates constructive feedback from other UX members and managers
- Able to schedule and prioritize work with guidance from managers.
- Proactively identifies and solves problems, improves personal skills, and assists team members.
- Able to iterate rapidly and create multiple solutions.
- Able to set personal schedules and meet deadlines.
Collaboration and Leveraging the Knowledge of Others-
- Shows the ability to work well with others.
- Takes ownership of the design and works closely and effectively both with the broader UX team and the Product Management and Engineering leaders.
- Receives, weighs, and integrates diverse feedback from a multi-disciplinary team.
- Able to work effectively in a fast-moving environment, juggle multiple projects, and prioritize work.
- Strong Presentation and Communication Skills
- Must present and communicate their design work to both UX members and outside audiences.
- Presents designs in a clear, confident, professional, and cogent manner.
- Able to explain rationale for design decisions.
- Understands how their role fits within the UX organization.
- Motivated and Positive
- Maintains an open and winning attitude.
- Able to work cooperatively and communicate effectively.
- Asks for help when needed from manager, leads, and domain experts.
- Seeks feedback and responds constructively.
