Lead UX Designer

Lead UX Designer

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Job Description

Remote will be considered for this position.

As a User Experience UX Design Lead, you will be part of the overall design leadership team and help define, design, and implement our overall design team strategy. You will build upon insights, working with cross-functional teams and clients to create experiences that establish and strengthen relationships and deliver incredible experiences.

Senior Designers and Leads bring out the best in the individuals they work with. They understand the motivations and needs of their team members as well as business opportunities and align them for the greatest positive impact. You will spend most of your time leading large-scale design projects, while also focusing on mentoring the growth of others on the teamand growth of your client work.

Some of your responsibilities:

• Scope and lead and/or oversee complex UX projects, from beginning to end
• Demonstrate strong strategic thinking and attention to detail
• Mentor ateam of designers and help them grow in their careers
• Motivate, organize, and execute design initiatives creatively and meticulously
• Collaborate with stakeholders, subject matter experts, researchers, and analysts to discover business requirements and user insights
• Conduct user research to validate user insights from stakeholders and subject matter experts as well as uncover additional user needs
• Define the project design and/or experience strategy and vision
• Conduct experience audits and create experience maps
• Produce workflows, user scenarios, user stories, personas, wireframes and interactive prototypes
• Help prioritize features based on business requirements and user needs
• Work cross-functionally with other designers, business analysts, developers, and project managers on project scope, design strategy, designs, project roadmap, features and functionality
• Design and conduct concept testing and usability testing
• Guide and be a resource for information architecture and taxonomy decisions
• Present user research, designs, prototypes, and other design deliverables to stakeholders

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5years’ experience in user experience design/strategy focusing on responsive websites and applications. Experience for 1 year+ leading and mentoring teams is preferred.
• Ability to think big and experience working to solve complex design problems while staying on-budget/on-time
• Ability to manage and mentor people, manage deadlines, schedule, communication, and deliverables
• Proactive-nature, good communicator, ambitious and well-organized
• Excellent organizational, time management, communication, and presentation skills
• A desire and ability to collaborate with people who have differing skills and perspectives
• Ability to multitask and prioritize in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Ability to identify and suspend bias in place of user insight and business objectives
• Enthusiastically help your team hone their craft and encourage the sharing of new techniques and tools - build a sense of design community and pride
• Ability to lead project experience strategy and vision
• Ability to understands what problems your design solves and can articulate and defend work appropriately
• Ability to translate concepts, business & user requirements into wireframes and prototypes that demonstrate intuitive user experiences
• Expert knowledge in design patterns (responsive web design, native app, web app best practices)
• Expert knowledge of wireframing and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, Invision, Framer, and/or Axure
• Expert in building and rapidly iterating on interactive prototypes
• Knowledgeable about scoping design efforts
• Experience designing and conducting user research and usability testing
• Range of concepting ability is a plus, from sketching to high-fidelity prototypes
• Prior agency, marketing, or consulting experience

Additional Information

Merkle

fosters a diverse environment that encourages original thinking about our business and empowers us to communicate with a global world of customers.We embrace differences of opinion and diversity of thought as they help us challenge and refine our solutions. Merkle, as a best-in-class marketing agency, welcomes big ideas, and believes they can come from anywhere.

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