Specific Duties & Responsibilities
- Support departments in digital service delivery improvement and implementation
- Lead a large-scale transformation that involves multiple stakeholders, constituencies, and agencies
- Be a critical thinker who challenges the status quo and encourages creative ways to overcome roadblocks
- Utilize preexisting research (and collect new data as needed) to inform the redesign of the digital hiring system
- Facilitate cross-departmental workshops mapping business processes and relating them to user research and city technology capabilities
- Conduct usability testing to confirm and identify job applicant and hiring staff pain points as needed
- Create site maps, flow diagrams, storyboards, wireframes showcasing interaction flows, information architecture and designs to combat these pain points and improve the hiring experience
- Support the People Soft expert in prioritizing and implementing system changes based on pre-existing user research
- Utilize UX expertise to design the most seamless and efficient hiring process for front and back-end users
- Apply a UI style guide to create visual designs for all pages on the website within the PeopleSoft system and support testing, refinement, and implementation of those designs
- Lead the implementation of UX and UI changes to the hiring website in collaboration with the Office of Chief Technology Office (OCTO) the Department of Human Resources
- Help set and achieve defined targets of impact by monitoring performance and helping course correct when needed
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree and / or relevant practical experience in user experience, human-centered design, collaborative solution creation, visual communication, and implementation skill sets10+ years of professional level experience in a relevant fieldExpertise in human centered design innovation, UX design, and visual design, included design research, data synthesis, co-creation, prototyping, testing, iteration, and implementationDemonstrated ability in managing complex digital design and implementation projects in a government environmentDemonstrated ability conducting user research and translating raw data into insightsDemonstrated ability to display large amounts of information in simple, easy to understand formatsAbility to work both independently, and cooperatively within a team, leveraging other team member’s work and abilitiesStrong interpersonal skills with an ability to build good relationships with teammates, city staff, and diverse community stakeholders.Experience facilitating workshops and other meetings with senior-level stakeholdersDemonstrated ability to summarize and explain complex situations in both written and verbal formStrong desire to improve local government servicesHigh resilience and patience in working with people of varying levels of interest in digital service redesignStrong project management background with the proven ability to establish targets and deliver measurable results on time and within budgetSuperior organizational skills and ability to set priorities and respond quickly as priorities changeFamiliarity with PeopleSoft (preferred but not mandatory)Familiarity with HTMLProficiency in Figma, Miro, Adobe Sketch (or equivalent etc), MS Word, MS Excel, MS OutlookWork Schedule / Environment
In the office four days a week between Monday – Friday, 8 AM - 5 PMRare occasions of before / after-hours work will be needed to capture certain research opportunities#J-18808-Ljbffr