Sr. UX/UI Designer

Company Description

We are an industry-leading technology consulting firm dedicated to empowering organizations through cloud native and enterprise DevSecOps transformations. Our team of experts are passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies to deliver exceptional value to our clients. We specialize in executing innovative technical solutions using cloud native principles, containers, and extreme automation-based DevSecOps practices.
At our core, we believe in pushing boundaries and setting new standards. Our commitment to excellence is what sets us apart, and it's why our clients choose to work with us. We understand that delivering superior technical solutions requires a team of recognized professionals. If you have a passion for building cloud native systems, applications, and automation solutions in the cloud, and if you're seeking to join a company that is a powerhouse in Enterprise DevSecOps and Cloud Native domains, then you've come to the right place. We foster a dynamic, inclusive, and collaborative environment that encourages innovation and continuous learning. As a member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, tackle complex challenges, and make a significant impact in enabling digital transformation for our clients. Join us and be part of a team that thrives on pushing the boundaries of what's possible in technology.

Job Description

As the Sr. UX/UI Designer, ensure an accurate translation of a client requirements into design. Measure and optimize web-based applications to enhance usability, leveraging industry trends and exploring several approaches to solve end-user problems and provide the best user experience. Work hand-in-hand with client stakeholders and Product Owners/Product Managers to strategize and develop a suite of applications for various operating systems including Windows, Web, Android, and iOS.

Key Performance Expectations:

• Able to segment user groups and work with multi-disciplinary teams to gather primary and secondary information and insights around user needs and business objectives using a variety of research techniques/methods and tools

• Being a highly organized workshop facilitator who knows how to prepare, analyze, and run workshops with clients/users and product teams

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with proven ability to present concepts, ideas, and insights to the project team and clients

• Develops personas, journeymaps, and valuestream maps that reflect workflows and key tasks/‘jobs to be done’

• Synthesize data and consolidate analyses of current-state processes/workflows, pain points, and opportunities across functional groups

• Conduct UX audit to evaluate usability, analyzing user data, heuristic evaluations, and assessing information architecture to determine opportunities for improvement

• Develop information architecture for a portfolio or suite of products and applications, to include underlying organization, structure and relationships between site content and functionality

• Develop service blueprints reflecting future-state improvements and dependencies for user segments, (different personas), contributing functions/capabilities, and supporting systems

• Create any combination of flow diagrams, graphics designs, storyboards, and sitemaps to produce high-quality solutions that address product/service specifications

• Develop future-state prototypes that reflect needs of business operations and external customers, reflecting features, navigation, and application functions and behaviors, content, and flows

• Conduct UAT/user testing to validate intuitive interactions, customizations for user groups, and degree to which requirements meet Business and user needs

Qualifications

• Solid experience in creating sitemaps, wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and wireflows needed to convey dynamic use of features and functionality

• Strong ability to organize information and project tasks effectively for all phases of a project and future iterations

• Robust communications and facilitation skills for conducting user research, interacting cross-functionally and with various stakeholders, and managing design sessions and workshops

• Strong presentation and storytelling skills for conveying design solutions

• Proficiency in design/prototyping tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe Suite (e.g., InDesign, Illustrator, etc.) Miro and product development tools like JIRA/Confluence, Azure DevOps

• Knowledge of web and mobile design principles, responsive design, and accessibility best practices for digital platforms

• Experience using agile development processes and collaborating with cross-functional teams, including developers, to execute design efforts effectively

• Portfolio or work samples demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions

Additional Information

We Value:

• Drive: Passion and energy to implement quality technical solutions. Self-motivation and intellectual curiosity
• Commitment to Quality: Passion to conceive and produce world-class solutions that drive real-world value for the customer
• Customer Focus: Consultative approach to solving problems for customers. Expectations management.
• Communication: Superior communication skills. Ability to clearly articulate problems, solutions, risks, rewards etc. (written and verbal)
• Technical Skills: Love for technology. You have to be inherently passionate about technology.
• Business Acumen: Technology ultimately is used to enable the business. We look for people who understand how the businesses can be enabled through their technical solutions

What we offer:

• Ability to make a noticeable difference for the organization and our customers
• Tremendous growth opportunity by becoming part of a rapidly growing organization. It’s not your tenure but what you can bring to the table that defines how your career will be shaped. You control your growth.
• Complex but interesting challenges to improve the depth and breadth of your technical and business skills. Our consultants are business technologists and understand how technology drives business. 
• Competitive pay and benefits

Oteemo is an equal employment and affirmative action employer. We evaluate qualified applicants on merit and business needs and not on race, color, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other factor protected by law. Oteemo complies with the law regarding reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled employees.