Senior User Experience Designer

Overview

Senior User Experience Designer role at AgencyQ . Local candidates only will be reviewed.

About The Company AgencyQ is the champion of the human experience through digital transformation. Our award-winning team of collaboration-minded digital experts creates website experiences with deeply purposeful-applied personalization. Our cross-functional teams of Data Scientists, Content Strategists, Marketing Gurus, Digital Experts, and Creative Designers use research and data to achieve, inform, and shape digital transformation strategies for our clients. We challenge the norm, we are fearless innovators, and we live our customer’s mission. This is the power of AQ.

About The Role AgencyQ is excited to hire a Senior User Experience Designer for our growing human-centered design practice. The right candidate is passionate about solving real problems through design and has experience creating, presenting, and delivering solutions as part of a cross-functional, client-facing team. You will work with a variety of clients, including government agencies, associations, healthcare organizations and B2B companies. You will work closely with internal, cross-functional teams as well as external client teams. We are passionate about finding the right individual to join our team. Even if you don’t exactly match the qualifications below, please apply and let us know why you are an excellent candidate.

Responsibilities

• Leads client interactions from research through ideation, design and development.
• Strong functional UX design capabilities for digital, and fosters collaborative cross-discipline dynamics.
• Experience using Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Axure, or similar tools.
• Strong digital visual design capabilities and experience with Adobe CS is a bonus.
• Communicates and collaborates effectively with both internal teams and clients.
• Seeks to understand user behavior and motivations using qualitative and quantitative research methods. Creates research plans to uncover necessary information in discovery.
• Defines, structures, and conducts user engagement activities (e.g., ethnographic research, surveys, interviews, focus groups, card sorting, usability evaluations).
• Plans and facilitates workshops, design sprints, and other collaborative sessions with internal and client teams.
• Works with the team to synthesize findings into actionable recommendations.
• Presents discovery findings with a strategic voice, prioritizes design recommendations, and illustrates the user experience via process flows, journey mapping, and personas.
• Builds trust with clients by translating business and user requirements into design solutions.
• Ideates and designs effective solutions, including wireframes and interactive prototypes.
• Understands information architecture; creates sitemaps, taxonomies, and content types.
• Presents work effectively to clients with rationale for design decisions.
• Partners with internal teams of visual designers, UX designers, front- and back-end developers to scope designs and craft the overall user experience.
• Assists with producing thought leadership resources such as blogs, white papers, presentations, etc.
• Cascades UX insights : prepares production files, documentation, and specs for designers and developers across disciplines.
• Enjoys working in a cross-functional, client-facing team; experiences in scoping HCD projects, estimating budgets, developing solutions and approaches, and writing proposals.
• Skilled in scaling process and / or approach to fit the company’s and clients’ needs.
• Develops cohesive design systems, including component-based and template-based systems.
• Manages multiple projects, prioritizes tasks, and demonstrates time management skills.

Qualifications

AgencyQ is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

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