Job Description

Staff Engineer, Human Factors Design - Remote USA

In this role, you will work across the entire UX and UI lifecycle, including research, strategy, design, and optimization. From brainstorming to implementation, you will work cross-functionally with software engineers, product management, brand marketing, QA, and R&D design teams. Must have a passion for creating a user experience and design strategy that is straightforward, elegant, engaging, and most importantly, easy to use.

What will you do?

• As a senior leader, mentor Jr. Designers and provide design leadership to the organization or functional area.
• Create thoughtful user experiences, all while having the ability to take that experience into a visual form. You'll work on a variety of different projects, providing initial brainstorming and strategy through front-end implementation of UX and UI design for instruments, desktop, web-based, and mobile scientific analysis applications.
• Combine strong concepting skills with creative design & execution.
• Understand and execute on the aspects and steps of the process in building interactive design solutions.
• Visualize, design and conceptualize user experiences. This includes information design hierarchy, process/screen flows, concept sketches, annotated wireframes, interactive prototypes, high fidelity visual mockups, and optimized graphics production.
• Create and communicate design strategy, rationale, and perspective and present UX and UI design concepts.
• Understand and apply feedback with flexibility.
• Serve as a project lead, gathering customer needs, business expectations, requirements, and stakeholder considerations then using those considerations to craft the UX strategy.
• Work interdependently and collaboratively with team members on key initiatives to ensure that the creative execution maintains a strong, consistent look and feel.
• Utilize and contribute to design patterns that will enable a consistent user experience across products and platforms.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with globally located research, engineering, marketing, product management, and other internal organizations.

How will you get here?

• High school diploma or equivalent required; Bachelor's degree strongly preferred
• Equivalent work experience is acceptable in lieu of degree.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• At least 7-9+ years of experience in UX, with the emphasis on design (instead of research or usability evaluations)
• Good visual design skills - ability to lay out a screen in a well-organized way
• Extensive wireframing experience
• Good interactive prototyping skills - clickable prototypes with occasionally advanced interactivity
• Experience with projects small and large
• Demonstrated ability to lead a project
• Ability to manage your own project planning and deadlines
• Ability to have healthy relationships with project teams
• Ability to present before large groups (3-15 people)
• Ability to apply existing design patterns

What must you provide if you want to be considered?

• Resume / CV
• Work samples that show how your projects progress from the start to the finish - ideally including rough notes, sketches, etc.