Junior UI / UX Designer - REMOTE

Junior UI / UX Designer - REMOTE

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MATRIX has partnered with a premier client to fill a full time employee -100% remote position. This is a great opportunity to expand your career and work with a well known company and look towards career growth.

Are you a junior UI/UX Designer with Sketch experience? Do you have the type of personality to "check your ego at the door" and love learning new things? Are you extremely collaborative and enjoy working with your teammates to impact positive change? Are you looking for your next career opportunity? This position may be for you

Location: 100% REMOTE

Note: Looking for candidates with some or ALL of the following (1+ years):

• Kendo

• Sketch

Personality Traits

• Fast paced

• Self Starter

• Great with design aspect

• Work with multiple different teams

• Discovery work, design

• Willing to be on camera

• Talking to users, asking questions, communicate with front end engineers, checking code, developing designs

• Willing to learn and grow and be eager

• Must check "ego" at the door

Pluses:

• Maintaining and owning style guides/libraries

• UX Strategy guides

• running usability sessions

• Bootstrap, Angular - just be able to understand and design around it

Title:

Junior UI/UX Designer

The Associate UX/UI Designer works alongside our engineers, product managers, business analysts, and business stakeholders to advocate for user experience and consistent design across applications. As an integral part of Digital Experience Team (DEX), the Associate UX/UI Designer will work alongside the team to help inspire cross-functional teams to deliver customer-focused experiences that drive business outcomes by advocating UX methodologies and techniques.
Primary Responsibilities:
Embedded within the product and engineering teams, the Associate UX/UI Designer will help facilitate design thinking workshops, carry out research plans, and design interactive and visual design solutions including wireframes, mock-up flows, and interactive prototypes. This critical team member supports the delivery of high-quality enterprise and customer facing products, rapidly and iteratively. As a key contributor of the team, they will help advocate for utilizing UX best practices.
Essential Functions:

• Drive UI/UX aspects of Product Development Team initiatives and goals
• Help to develop and define UX standards, research methods, best practices and processes and oversee their implementation
• Conduct competitive research, discovery, and usability research
• Co-facilitate research sessions to identify business, user, and technical requirements
• Effectively communicate design decisions to product and leadership teams
• Contribute to the design system
• Use modern UX methodologies and techniques to inspire design thinking and create supporting documentation including personas, customer journeys, task flows, site maps, prototypes/wireframes
• Stay current with UX, visual design, best practices, and front-end technologies

Minimum Requirements, Qualifications, Additional Skills, Aptitude:

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:

• Knowledge of UX strategy and design for web, mobile, and application design
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Interest in learning front-end web technologies, native interface guidelines, web services, and APIs
• Desire to work in a fast-paced iterative environment
• Acts with empathy and curiosity; listens and seeks to understand
• Passionate mindset with positive intent
• Collaborative team environment and must be able to work well with others

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Pursuing Bachelor's degree in Design (Graphic, Interaction, Visual, and Digital), Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Information Architecture, Marketing, or related UX field is preferred
• Portfolio of school projects is requested
• Strong technical understanding with design tools such as Axure, Sketch, Invision, Zeplin, and Adobe Creative Suite (We use Sketch and Invision.)

Equal Employment Opportunity

MATRIX is committed to providing a work environment that values diversity, equity, inclusion and respect. We do not discriminate based upon race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status (including registered domestic partnership status), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender (including gender identity and expression), age (40 and over), sexual orientation, military and veteran status and/or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

MATRIX is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable. If you are a qualified individual with a disability, you may request a reasonable accommodation under the American Disability Act (ADA) by emailing MATRIXHR@MatrixRes.com. To ensure a quick response to your request, please use the words "Accommodation request" as the subject line of your email.

For hourly W2 contract roles MATRIX offers a highly competitive benefit package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, HSA, and 401(k) with pre and post-tax options. Please see MatrixRes.com/Benefits for more information. For direct hire placement with our clients, benefits will be offered in accordance with that particular client's offerings. This may include PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K and other pre and post-tax options.