Position Summary:
As a UX Product Designer, you will be an integral part of an innovative and bold initiative that takes a modern approach of disciplined agile and lean software practices aimed at transforming healthcare and pharmacy. The UX Product Designer is essential to ensuring product success and end-user satisfaction in a highly collaborative environment that follows the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology. The UX Product Designer position is responsible for taking a user-centered approach to design in finding the right solution for users as part of small, cross-functional product teams. You will help educate both business and technology teams on the XP process and how the traditional UX role changes, as well as lead products from discovery through iterative delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Embrace an agile mindset: be willing to adapt and experiment with design process
- Work with cross-functional teams and pair with everyone – other designers, product managers, and product engineers
- Solve the right problem through the understanding of user needs in order to deliver new or improved products and services that have real impact
- Full-stack designer: assist with all dimensions of design – research, usability evaluation, information architecture, wireframes, visual, CSS and HTML – it’s ok not be an expert in all, as long as you are open and want to learn
- Bring a lean/iterative mindset; be open to having conversations over documentation
- Stay up-to-date on UX/UI design industry best practices and trends
Required Education & Experience:
- 5+ years’ professional experience as a UX Architect, UX Designer, or Product Designer role including the following:
- 1+ years of working effectively with Agile and lean philosophies
- 1+ years’ experience working independently with clients or stakeholder and designing business or enterprise applications
- 2+ years’ experience in at least one of the 3 design pillars: user research, interaction design or visual design.
- 1+ years’ experience working in design and prototyping software tools such as Axure, InVision or Sketch
- 1+ years’ experience executing user-centered design methodologies by leading product design decisions from research through implementation
- 1+ year of experience with modern front-end technologies and open source frameworks (e.g. Material Design, HTML/CSS, grid systems, responsive design)