UX Interaction Designer

UX Interaction Designer - 694172

• Our Senior UX Interaction Designers are experts in creating beautiful, usable solutions based on unbiased user research.
• They are at the forefront of setting strategic design direction for our financial suite of products and championing the voice of the user throughout our organization.

Skills Required:

• Designs lean, iterative, and development-ready solutions that can scale for the future, but understands the technology constraints of the now.
• Thinks deeply about the user experience balanced with business goals to inform their designs.
• Leads the product team (Product Owner, Project Manager, Software Engineers) through the user-centered design process with collaborative workshops for discovery and ideation.
• Applies user research insights to drive product design and strategy, and help your team understand why and how to build better experiences.
• Plans and executes user research in collaboration with internal stakeholders, and shares findings broadly across the organization.

Skills Preferred:

• Craft beautiful and usable designs for digital products by applying your domain expertise, deep research findings, and collaborating with peers across the product organization.
• Conduct user research and experiments from planning to synthesis.
• Play an active role in advocating for a Human-Centered Design process and creating a collaborative environment.
• Engage and inspire the product organization about our customers' experiences through powerful story-telling of the human-centered design process, research insights, and customer journeys.
• Lead as a ‘player/coach' - owning UX design and mentoring less experienced designers.

Experience Required:

• 4+ years of experience as a UX/Interaction/Product Designer working across a breadth of digital media.
• 2+ years of experience leading the human-centered design process with highly collaborative, multidisciplinary teams.

Experience Preferred:

• 6+ years of experience as a UX or Interaction Designer

Education Required:

• Bachelor's degree in user experience, human-computer interaction, interaction design, service design, graphic design, or digital design-related degree

Education Preferred:

• Master's in user experience, human-computer interaction, interaction design, service design, graphic design, or digital design related-degree.
• Additional Bachelor's in sociology, anthropology, psychology, or related degree.

Additional Information :

• Demonstrable experience in UX design and research in all phases across a variety of projects and mediums.
• Deep expertise in Interaction & Visual Design, Information Architecture, UX Writing, and UX Research.
• Advanced knowledge of Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, and/or other design and prototyping software.
• Visualize and test concepts at varying levels of fidelity - napkin sketches, sacrificial concepts, wireframes, interactive & functional prototypes, development-ready assets.
• Experience synthesizing research findings into actionable insights that inform strategic decisions and design solutions.

Job Requirements:

Additional Info:

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet . We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories . Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra . We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years !

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused .

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest . Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020!

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