Description
We’re looking for talented Mid-Level UX Developer skilled in creating an engaging and compelling online and mobile user experience. This is a 6-month contract position onsite in West Los Angeles.
If you're knowledgeable with responsive and custom site design, have experience with mobile application, are detail oriented and a high-level thinker, this is the role for you.
The user experience expert’s immediate goal will be to help increase advertising revenue through optimization of the UX for new web site visitors and existing customers.
You’ll be the subject matter expert and lead designer for a facet of our customer experience, which includes:
• Partnering with Project Manager + stakeholders to define business requirements
• Representing UX best practices and defining new patterns/functionality when needed
• Designing concepts to help illustrate solutions to the problems, working with engineering, customers + other stakeholders to evaluate the effectiveness & feasibility of your solutions
• Partnering with engineering as your project is being developed, helping it go live and measuring its impact and success
• The user experience expert will interact with product managers and stakeholders to conduct user research, testing and optimization of new and existing features and products
• Utilizing wireframes, html-mockups and simple prototypes to test and recommend improvements to externally focused applications
• Acting as the single practitioner for all UX work, and performing all activities as well manage 3rd party vendors in conducting UX research and optimization
• Operating in an Agile development environment & delivering weekly UX feedback
We’re looking for candidates:
• 3 years+ of UI/UX individual contributor experience
• Must have an experience working with WordPress CMS, mobile native and web applications
• Must have proven experience with process and procedure documentation
• Must be able to demonstrate ability to interact in a positive, respectful manner, establish and maintain cooperative working relationships
• Knowledge of “what is possible” vs. “what is efficient” in technology. You should be able to suggest existing solutions for living interfaces that do not require significant development overhead.
• Graphic design for the web and mobile. You should be an expert in Photoshop, but understand that heavy graphics are not necessary for a beautiful and usable product.
• Style guides. You should know how to choose a typography set, icon style, color scheme, and design patterns to enable re-usable elements in all products and marketing materials.
• User experience architecture. You should already know all of the considerations that go into a good interface design.
• Branding. You should know how to evoke a consistent emotional connection across the entire user experience lifecycle.
• Strategies for implementing strong designs for template-based systems (like Wordpress, Joomla, etc) is a bonus
• Interest in the stock market or financial background is a plus
Please submit complete resumes along with work samples (portfolio’s) for our review.
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