Senior UX UI Designer

Job Title: Senior UX UI Designer

Location: Chillicothe, IL (Onsite)

Duration: Contract

Mandatory Skills:
FIGMA, HMI (Human Machine Interfaces), Prototyping, UX DESIGN, UX Research

Required Technical Skills:

• 5+ years of experience with a focus on Empathy (synthesizing stakeholder and user sentiment, listening with openness to learn)
• 5+ years with focus on Adaptive Thinking (quickly pivoting with changing requirements, seeing challenges as learning opportunities)
• Thorough understanding of UI best practices and essential graphic design theory
• Proficiency in UI layout, spec, and prototyping tools
• Experience managing multiple projects and deadlines
• Portfolio demonstrating expertise and ability to articulate your process
• Note: No explicit ergonomics or HMI research requirement

Job Responsibilities:

• Translate research and test findings into actionable, prioritized recommendations for UI designs
• Clarify user, customer, and business needs and translate into concepts for compelling interactions and user experience
• Understand research methodologies and have experience facilitating research
• Integrate user research into product designs and design practices
• Communicate with designers on prototype requirements to test and iterate
• Document key goals, themes, elements, and behaviors that must be implemented by downstream UI teams
• Create shareable UX artifacts based on the team's research and activities (such as journey maps, storyboards, and user flows)
• Document the overall UX strategy (UI, physical attributes, guiding principles, and more) that will be leveraged across all downstream partners
• Prioritize research needs/backlog based on product roadmap