Hybrid UXUI Designer

Job Title:

UX/UI Designer 1

• Job Type: 12 Months, Regular Fulltime, Hourly
• Bachelor's Degree in related field
• 0-2yrs of relative experience

• th Place SE, Bellevue, WA

• Medical Insurance (Health, Dental & Vision)
• Paid Time Off
• 401K
• H1B/Green Card Sponsorship for qualified employee
• Hands-on experience at global industry leader Samsung
• Opportunities for career advancement

$34 - 36/hr

Design portfolio required to be considered. Please provide password to your portfolio.

The main function of the User Experience Designer is to work with project teams to design and deliver high quality client-centered, effective, consistent and usable interfaces. The Samsung Mobile UX team is seeking a highly motivated UX analyst with strong project management skills. The candidate should possess comprehensive knowledge of the design cycle from research, requirements gathering, to design iteration, validation, and QA.

In the role, the candidate will own the UX design aspect of a product's development process. They will review and analyze the latest Samsung UX, deliver UX feedback with alternative designs to Samsung designers, and lead communications with North American mobile carriers as well as Samsung teams based in South Korea. In addition, they will be responsible for tracking, managing and resolving any UX related issues raised during the lifecycle of the product.
The candidate should possess a keen eye for good UX design with an ability to spot issues and generate ideas for improvement. The candidate will maintain quality from a project execution perspective, with the ability to identify risks and provide tactical support wherever appropriate. They will need to be aware of a project's schedule well-being and risks at all times, manage meetings, anticipate roadblocks, and keep stakeholders updated with a project's status.

The candidate is expected to have excellent written and verbal communication to effectively communicate across multiple divisions and teams.

• Communicate device UX (Samsung One UI) with carriers, gather feedback, work closely with designers in S. Korea to enhance Samsung device experience.
• Review and analyze UX in early phases of development and deliver relevant feedback.
• Communicate and cooperate with counterparts of internal teams such as product design, research, engineering, and marketing as well as external partners, such as telecommunication operators and external consultants.
• Ensure that the UI development results meet market (consumer) demand, technical specifications, and carrier requirements.
• Analyze UX of competing mobile devices as well as market trends in mobile UX.
• Conduct design research and propose new concepts with mockups.
• Conduct group usability studies and document results and analysis of the studies.

• Works closely with business analysts, business sponsors, project managers and IT teams to obtain and understand business requirements.
• Creates the design of user interface specifications, by applying client research, design standards, industry best practices, taking into account strategic business objectives, user needs, systems constraints.
• Participates in design review sessions with project teams, acquiring consensus and getting approvals on designs and documentation.
• Executes business acceptance test cases and testing.
• Works with the project managers to ensure that usability deliverables accommodate project timelines, budgets, technical and scope constraints.
• Contributes to the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of efficient and effective usability methodology/process, documentation, workflow, ROI, metrics and design standards.
• Acts as a user experience advocate regarding principles of user experience and user-centered design.
• Proven understanding of user-centered design techniques & demonstrated ability to incorporate UCD…