Senior UI​/UX Design Engineer

This position is responsible for working on core project teams within Client’s Ideation team and corporate innovation area. The role requires a creative mind, deep understanding of design, strong engineering skills, and a commitment to continuously learning new technologies. We are looking for an innovator who thrives in rolling up their sleeves and getting involved from defining the market to solution creation.

Ability to work in a team and engage with potential users, translating requirements into technical approaches, and busting through complexity in partnership with product and business models in pursuit of breakthrough solutions that may invent or disrupt the industry.

• Understands HCD and Lean/Agile methodologies and performs key activities using these methodologies and respective tools
• Work with the Innovation Labs portfolio team to understand a market area and define a solution. Lead the UX idea, turn it into code, and deliver it on schedule.
• Prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
• Work cross functionally with UX team and build collaborative relationship.
• Develop robust, reliable prototypes and create plans to outline requirements for launch & scale
• Prove UX concepts at a variety of fidelities, including working samples and reference code
• Collaborates and communicates effectively using modern suite of available tools
• Conduct research and analysis of complex problem spaces leveraging primary & secondary research, and turn research into user-centered insights, problems and solutions
• Actively participate in user interviews and other activities with stakeholders, SMEs
• Through user exploration and testing cycles, gather requirements, generate shared understanding, work through trade-offs, produce ideas, and deliver optimal solutions
• Comfort and demonstrated ability to design effective experiments, gather data/signals, and utilize learnings to iterate and evolve the product and business model
• Demonstrate the ability to partner with various stakeholders and business partner groups
• Contributes (and may lead) discussions, working sessions, and workshops through active planning, collaboration, strong questioning, action items, and sharing knowledge
• Embodies the mindset of an innovator e.g. curiosity, tenacity, collaboration, flexibility, creativity, comfort with ambiguity, problem solving
• Demonstrated ability to define the technical feasibility, technical approach, and ability to lead the development of an MVP
• Supports storyline development with the ability to create POCs quickly that are used for testing cycles/results and product evolution
• Build trust through exemplifying embedded user-centered product design to the organization
• Continuously learn through self-study, engagement with the innovation community, and professional development opportunities (e.g. books, workshops, conferences, certifications)

• Strategic thinker with the ability to build and execute innovative digital products, combined with tactical ability to execute simultaneously against multiple competing priorities
• Strong communication, active listening, critical thinking, and presentation skills
• Ability to work and manage projects independently. Ability to work without supervision
• Can apply HCD and Lean/Agile methodologies of solving user problems, designing for ideal experience, ideating expansively, prioritization based on validation and learnings cycles, collaborating and iterating and testing early, nimbly, and often
• Can demonstrate comfort with ambiguity and change, and introduce strong thinking, planning, and activities to identify the best solutions
• Work autonomously, anticipate issues & challenges, propose solutions prior to being prompted
• Can demonstrate knowledge, proficiency, and application of technology stacks including JavaScript, React, Node.js, REST services, relational databases, No
  
  SQL databases, CSS/HTML
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• Experience in a wide range of technologies that could include: cloud provider, C#, Java, mobile, highly scalable distributed systems, automation, gaming, security, machine learning, and containers.
• Ability to leverage Sketch, Figma, etc.…