User Experience Designer/Researcher (UX)

User Experience Designer/Researcher (UX)

East Coast Hours-- Remote option

US/Green Card holders preferred

About BigRio:

BigRio is a remote-based, technology consulting firm with headquarters in Boston, MA. We deliver software solutions ranging from: custom development, software implementation, data analytics, and machine learning/AI integrations. We are a one-stop shop that attracts clients from a variety of industries because of our proven ability to deliver cutting-edge and cost-conscious software solutions.

With extensive domain knowledge, BigRio has teams of data architects, data engineers, software engineers, web developers, and consultants who deliver best-in-class solutions across a variety of verticals. Our diverse industry exposure equips us with invaluable tools, tricks, and techniques to tackle complex software and data challenges.

Our thought-forward, Big Data team is working on a number of data architecture and software-solution projects. You will join this high-caliber team as a UX Designer/Researcher who will work with our clients to implement software-based solutions to fit their needs.

Job Description:

Our client is looking for a User Experience (UX) Designer/Researcher to join the product team and help to enhance and build out our Identity portfolio of web and mobile products. You'll work cross-functionally to conceptualize and deliver a great user experience, taking diverging ideas and turning them into world class products. The UX Designer should follow a user-centered design process and understand real users - their goals, aptitudes, experiences, needs, and motivations. In this role the User Experience Designer will approach design by balancing our members' needs with business goals and technical capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Support a lean UX Design team and product managers to design and deliver compelling, elegant, and sophisticated end-to-end user experiences for multiple products and platforms
• Work collaboratively in assessing and defining customer needs from delivering concepts, presenting and evaluating prototypes, to validating user experience feedback
• Develop innovative visual designs, screen layouts, navigation systems, interaction models, visual prototypes, user interface elements, typography and color palettes
• Identify and articulate user needs, build prototypes to test internally and through user research, and refine solutions in the face of data and other findings
• Contribute to defining the ‘what' as well as the ‘how' - not just translating requirements into designs but also offering possible additional interaction solutions
• Be an evangelist for UX and UI best practices and design excellence
• Maintain knowledge of current and emerging design principles and best practices in visual design, user interface design, interaction design, information architecture, usability theory, and evaluation techniques
• Collaborate with other designers to maintain design consistency and coherence across the products and platforms
• Give and receive design feedback with fellow teammates

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• 3+ years of user experience design experience
• Experience designing both web & native mobile applications (iOS, Android) is a plus
• An exceptional portfolio of creative product design that showcases complex and creative visual design and UX solutions, and solid information architecture
• Expert knowledge in graphic and visual design principles, with a strong emphasis on UI and UX
• A passion for design and continual improvement
• Experience creating UI specs & wireframes with the flexibility and willingness to move from idea, to whiteboard, to execution quickly
• Openness to receive feedback and have your opinions be challenged
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills - you can tell compelling stories about your designs and present your work with confidence, regardless of the audience (engineers, PMs, executives, other designers, etc.)
• Ability to prioritize projects, communicate progress, and deliver on time
• Ability to thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving and constantly evolving high growth environment
• HTML and CSS knowledge, current on latest responsive design techniques a plus

MUST have a Bachelors/Masters degree in one of the following areas OR similar

• Human-computer interaction
• Information science
• Psychology
• Statistics or applied statistics
• Anthropology
• Interaction Design
• Behavioral science
• Computer science
• Library science

**All current and future employees are required to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved. Employees not in compliance with this policy will be placed on leave and will be terminated if no valid reason for not getting the COVID-19 vaccine is provided**

Equal Opportunity Statement

BigRio is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. BigRio makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.

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