UX Expert

Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: November 4, 2024

Job Description:

We are looking for talented UX expert in creating an engaging and compelling online and mobile user experience.

You?ll be the subject matter expert and lead designer for a facet of the customer experience, which includes:

• Partnering with Project Manager + stakeholders to define business requirements

• Representing UX best practices and defining new patterns/functionality when needed

• Designing concepts to help illustrate solutions to the problems, working with engineering, customers and other stakeholders to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of your solutions

• Partnering with engineering as your project is being developed, helping it go live and measuring its impact and success

• The user experience expert will report to the SVP of marketing, and will interact with product managers and stakeholders to conduct user research, testing and optimization of existing features and products

• Utilizing wireframes, html-mockups and simple prototypes to test and recommend improvements to externally focused applications

• Acting as the single practitioner for all UX work, and performing all activities as well manage 3rd party vendors in conducting UX research and optimization

• Operating in an Agile development environment and delivering UX feedback on a weekly basis

We?re looking for candidates:

• 5 years+ of UI/UX individual contributor experience

• Must be detailed oriented

• Must have an experience working with mobile native and web applications

• Must have proven experience with process and procedure documentation

• Must be able to demonstrate ability to interact in a positive, respectful manner, establish and maintain cooperative working relationships

• Knowledge of “what is possible” vs. “what is efficient” in technology. You should be able to suggest existing solutions for living interfaces that do not require significant development overhead.

• Graphic design for the web and mobile. You should be an expert in Photoshop, but understand that heavy graphics are not necessary for a beautiful and usable product.

• Style guides. You should know how to choose a typography set, icon style, color scheme, and design patterns to enable re-usable elements in all products and marketing materials.

• User experience architecture. You should already know all of the considerations that go into a good interface design.

• Branding. You should know how to evoke a consistent emotional connection across the entire user experience lifecycle.

• Strategies for implementing strong designs for template-based systems (like Wordpress, Joomla, etc) is a bonus

• Interest in the stock market or financial background is a plus

Please submit complete resumes along with work samples (portfolio?s) for our review.

Need is immediate and candidate will be required to work on-site

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