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Senior UX Designer

AKQA
  • 5000 - 6000 USD per Month
  • Full Time
  • Posted : 11 months ago

At AKQA, we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.


Senior User Experience Designers apply micro/macro, user-centric and requirements-driven thinking to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams daily. They can sketch out any idea quickly and articulate them in a simple and clear way. Conducting user research and synthesizing it into artifacts like personas is part of their role as well as shaping the information architecture of products with sitemaps, user scenarios and user flows.


With a core focus on digital products and services, we are visionaries and makers, combining strategy, creative and technology to deliver best-in-class customer experiences for our clients.


Our culture celebrates diversity, hard work and fun. We are passionate about our craft, working together to create a better future, and ensuring we have an unfair share of the best talent in Washington DC.


ROLE REQUIREMENTS


  • Works with team members to develop streamlined user experience processes
  • Sets up and conducts user research and works with research partners to conduct research and usability testing needs for AKQA clients
  • Identifies design problems and opportunities within the context
  • Designs within an established set of rules (patterns and guidelines)
  • Maintains and organizes working files
  • Translates complex technical requirements into intuitive design solutions
  • Capable of defining consumers, processes, and ideas from an objective point of view based on research and insight, and can effectively communicate this point of view with senior management on both the agency and client sides
  • Actively educates internal groups about user experience and provides a significant contribution to the development of client relationships
  • Creates complex interactive prototypes in varying levels of fidelity


QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS


  • A minimum of 5 years’ experience in user experience, information architecture, or interaction design
  • Proficiency of the user experience discipline and a solid understanding of all relevant methodologies such as: persona creation, consumer journey mapping, service blueprints, heuristic evaluation, ecosystems, competitive audits, stakeholder/user interviews, card sorting, wireframes, usability testing, etc.
  • A portfolio of work demonstrating experience leading or managing the design of complex systems across multiple platforms, including mobile and touch-based interfaces
  • Mastery with wireframing software such as Sketch, Figma, Abstract, Adobe’s Experience Designer and Illustrator
  • Mastery with prototyping software such as InVision or Framer
  • Portfolio examples of enterprise applications is a plus
  • Experience on e-commerce platform is a plus


This role is associated with the Washington DC Studio.


Explore our extensive range of benefits here.


AKQA is an Equal Opportunities Employer, we believe that diversity is vital to AKQA’s ability to provide our clients with the best recommendations and are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. Your race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or veteran status have no bearing on our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Skills
  • User Experience (UX)
  • User Interface Design
  • Usability Testing
  • Technical Requirements
  • Information Architecture
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