UX Designer II

JOIN THE ASSURANCEAMERICA TEAM

Do you want to be part of an organization where you are valued, and your ideas and opinions have an impact? Join the AssuranceAmerica team.

For more than 25 years, AssuranceAmerica has provided superior property and casualty insurance products through contracted independent agents and directly to customers.

Our team succeeds through diversity of thought, experiences, skills, and backgrounds.

UX Designer

AssuranceAmerica is seeking a UX Designer to join our growing ranks as we continue to transform the way technology impacts the insurance business.  You will help shape the digital presence of AssuranceAmerica: incorporating modern design sensibilities, ensuring brand consistency, and equipping our development team for execution.  You will have the opportunity to build a best-in-industry user experience and delight our customers.

About the ROLE

Each day at AssuranceAmerica is different, but as UX Designer in Information Technology, you will:

• Troubleshoot and craft design solutions for business needs and development limitations.Collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to develop high-level marketing ideas for products and initiatives.

• Research competitors and complementary companies to gain insights into user experience design; leverage those insights to improve our design, filling market gaps and creating products that provide superior experience.

• Collaborate with developers, analysts, and business stakeholders to ensure core user functionality, and participate in discussions to continually improve that functionality.

• Build and maintain user personas for use in informing design decisions and illustrating use-cases.

• Build wireframes and prototypes, iterating based upon user feedback, rendering issues, and bugs.

• Create simple, user-friendly designs that provide positive user experience.
• Leverage mobile-first mentality to designs; test on a variety of resolutions, browsers, and devices; ensure adherence to iOS and Material Design guidelines.
• Create and collaborate with content writers and illustrators to craft text and imagery that is consistent with branding guidelines, user personas, and overall tone.
• Provide front-end specifications and assets for designs, including markup for UI components; contribute to component libraries to ensure developers understand how UI elements look and behave, guaranteeing consistency across platforms.
• Identify and correct weaknesses in designs, including rendering issues, navigability, and formatting; collect and distribute data regarding usability to identify weaknesses in user experience and navigational flow.
• Assist in refining markup where needed, working with developers to ensure code changes are properly tested and merged.
• Assist in supplemental coding as needed by developers.

About YOU

• Detail oriented

• Creative mindset

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

Required

• Bachelor’s degree

• 2+ years of experience in similar UX-centric roles

• Experience with user flow tooling, such as Miro or Visio.
• Experience with cross device testing, such as BrowserStack or Lambda.

• Experience with wireframing tools, such as Figma, InDesign, Sketch, or Adobe XD

• Responsive web frameworks

• Expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Flexbox and Grid
• CSS frameworks and preprocessors (SASS)

• JavaScript frameworks (Angular)

• Visual Studio, Git, Azure DevOps

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
• May be required to work on-call during large-scale releases.

About US

• We are direct, results-driven, and dedicated to the success of our business and each other.
• We are a diverse group of thinkers and doers.
• We offer many opportunities to grow in your professional skills and career.
• We fight homelessness by directing 5% of our earnings from each policy we sell to organizations that help those in need. We call it our Generous Policy.