Interaction Designer​/Visual Designer

Title: Interaction Designer/Visual Designer

Location: San Diego, CA

Contract Term: 12+ Months

Weekly

Hours:

40.00 Hours

Note: Must be local to San Diego, no long distance travel.

Description

As a member of the User Experience Design team, the Designer will work with multi-disciplinary teams to strategize and apply strategic thinking to design and deliver innovative end-to-end user experiences that optimize among user needs, business goals, and technological realities for each project. Projects will include cloud-based software and knowledge portals. The design challenges will require rapid Axure prototyping and clearly communicating data analytics through infographics.

This role will require a combination of prototyping, interaction design, and visual design expertise. This position is extremely collaborative and requires a high degree of professionalism, communication skills, efficiency, attention to detail, and mentoring ability.

• Drive and apply user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams
• Effectively utilize and teach relevant user experience methods, such as how to apply a corporate design language, design frameworks, problem framing, design principles, and overall design thinking
• Ability to deliver UI specifications, wireframes, workflows, and high-fidelity Axure prototypes
• Build positive, collaborative relationships across teams/groups/functions through facilitative leadership
• Collaborate with key product stakeholders to understand the customer and support product design goals for existing and new products and to ensure those goals are supported in the solution design

• Demonstrated track record of success designing software apps in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Ability to effectively communicate interactive and interface design data, design proposals, and product specifications and to explain the rationale behind design decisions
• Ability to concisely critique designs and to translate customer feedback into design decisions
• Strong skills in creative design tools including Axure, InVision, Adobe Creative Cloud
• Strength in responsive design, cross-platform development, and at least a basic understanding of HTML and CSS
• Success in following, applying, teaching, and maintaining a company product design language guide and ensuring that colleagues apply elements accurately with strong design thinking behind their decisions
• Ability to enjoy working closely and collaboratively with developers implementing your designs
• Proven success working in an Agile development environment and strong knowledge of how interaction and visual design are best utilized in a SCRUM environment
• Organized, self-directed, efficient, and able to manage multiple and complex projects in a timely manner
• Experience with the healthcare field and medical devices a plus
• Online portfolio available for viewing required

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in User Interface Design, Cognitive Science, or equivalent
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience working in Axure producing high-fidelity prototypes (excel in building advanced variables, repeaters and dynamic panels)

• Entry level

• Full-time

• Information Technology