UX Architect Job at MRM / / McCann in Birmingham

We are looking for a team member that loves to solve complex experience design problems harnessing their passion for understanding how things work. This position is a focused user experience design role predominately working on customer insights, wireframes and architecture, and ultimately prototypes and specifications.

The MRM UX team is made up of talented designers from diverse backgrounds, education, and cultures, all of whom believe in the MRM mantra that we're better together. Our team culture is rooted in collaboration and our drive to work through problems in understanding our user's context, emotions, goals, and motivations. We support each project as an advocate for the customer, establishing informed perspectives, and leading UX activities that help us design and iterate on digital product experiences that benefit our client's businesses. As a User Experience Architect at MRM, you will bring a solid understanding of UX design processes and be confident presenting your ideas and concepts to internal teams and clients.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion is at the core of who we are as MRM and what we do every day. Through our Blueprint initiative, we want to make sure our workplace is one where everyone is treated with dignity, respect and fairness, and where all creeds, ethnicities and perspectives are welcome. We want to make sure our community is a place where all can succeed.

YOUR DAY AT MRM.

As a UX team member, you will be using research to benchmark competitors, define common patterns, ideate with your project team, and create prototypes for user research or team feedback. As you dive deeper into your projects, you'll find yourself heads down in the weeds, establishing your hypothesis, and working through assumptions. Your design experience and instincts enable you to define or refine intuitive and familiar patterns that create a cohesive product experience that helps users accomplish their tasks.

Our expectations are for you to work collaboratively with your UX colleagues, project team, clients, and outside vendors. Gain trust internally and externally by applying your expertise and practical communication skills. Deliver timely solutions and fuel organic business growth by influencing the potential of a brand, project, or program using design to tell a story about your solution to the problem.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Apply user-centered design principles and activities to build your subject matter expertise of the business and its customers.
• Product Design for digital experiences and applications for the web.
• Conduct analysis and formulate problem statements, document requirements, and establish solutions built within known scope.
• Justify design decisions to peers / internal teams through reviews and critiques of your solution that consistently present the customer perspective.
• Document your design through wireframes, site architectures and user flows, and specifications.
• Innovative and intuitive UI design that helps users accomplish their tasks, executing cross-device fluid or adaptive responsive layouts and adoption of patterns from existing design systems.
• Demonstrate clear communication, organization, and writing skills.
• Deliver your work professionally, on or before the deadline, with some autonomy and limited oversight.
• Understand and adapt to changing or shifting priorities within or across multiple projects.
• Prioritize and promote user research
• Conduct competitive benchmarking and analyses
• Understand different testing methods, both qualitative and quantitative, and effectively communicate your learnings to inform the design process.
• Prototype to conduct user studies that aid in choosing a design direction or validate a concept.
• Demonstrate being a proven team-player and have the ability to earn the trust of clients and colleagues

BENEFICIAL SKILLS :

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE :

We understand that formal education or time spent within related work experience for UX professionals can vary quite a bit. For this role on our team, we will take all your experiences into account in our evaluation : the certificates you've earned, undergraduate and graduate degrees, relevant work experience, freelance history, and so on. Additionally, we take great care in looking closely at what story your portfolio can tell us about your critical thinking and the role you've played within those projects.

Ideally, you will have 3-5 years of UX experience, however we do encourage candidates to apply even if you haven't worked as a UX architect specifically. If you have experience within related fields of digital strategy, user research, product design, UX developer, art director, or UX writer and want to make a difference through your design thinking with us, apply today and start the conversation.

NO THIRD-PARTY RESUMES ACCEPTED.

MRM is an EEO / AA employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, marital status, citizenship, disability, genetic information or veteran status or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law.MRM participates in e-Verify.

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