User Interface Designer

• 70 - 78 USD per Hour
• Full Time
• Posted : 2 months ago

W2 ONLY. NO CORP-CORP / 1099 / 3RD PARTY FIRMS.

2 Positions

18+ month renewable term contract. Likely to extend multi-year / option to hire.

Client: A major global corporation and a leader in their industry operating over 20 manufacturing facilities with annual revenue earning over $19 B and employing over 18,000.

Overview:

Utilize a strong understanding of the UX landscape, product design and the ability to provide UI and visual support for products within digital environments that includes desktop and mobile, websites and apps, responsive & adaptive designs. Rapidly evaluate and optimize our products and provide expert interface design skills to critical problem solving for best-in-class user experience design.

Role:

• Design and optimize digital products based on pet consumer needs, interaction data, business needs and market insights.
• Collaborate with product leads, scrum masters, UX research, UX writers, developers, fellow UX design specialists, and brand creatives to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience.
• Use storyboards, mood boards, style guides, user flows, prototypes and to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Rapidly iterate on designs executing all visual design stages from concept to final graphics for hand off for development.
• Leverage ecosystem design system and maintain a local organized design library for your digital product.
• Collaborate with team to leverage data and consumer insights along with priorities in KPIs and signals to support and validate UI approach.
• Learn and iterate with support from the UX research team.
• Express the established brand look, tone feel through UI styles and visual approach to product content.
• Maintain a strong connection to brand designers, brand visual approach and available asset library.
• Collaborate as a team when new visual solutions are needed that will expand the brand library based on user experience needs.
• Provide UI/visual design support during development and execution; assist with QA to ensure designs are implemented accurately and with the highest standard including accessibility standards, CSS integrity, fonts, user interaction and task completion rate success metrics.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years work experience in the United States.
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree
• 10 – 12+ experience working in UI or digital design required.
• Experience with UX tools and digital prototyping.
• Working knowledge and work-related experience for Lean Kanban or Agile Scrum methodologies.
• Fluent in Adobe suite tools
• Experienced in Figma.
• Ability to set design standards.
• HTML and CSS knowledge.
• Understanding of photography.
• Experience with consumer facing products/consumer packaged goods is a plus.
• Ability to work autonomously and possess strong organization skills.

Skills

• Adobe Creative Suite
• Agile Methodologies
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• 2D Design
• Digital Photography
• Figma (Software)
• HTML
• User Interface Design