Description
Job Title: UX/UI Designer
Job Type: Contract
Job Location: Luxembourg
Contract Rate: Euro 500 per day
Contract Length: 12 Months with possible extensions
Our Client, one of the world's foremost IT Consultancies, is looking to recruit a Contract UX/UI Designer to join their client in Luxembourg.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead user-centred design based on consulting with clients, project teams and lead experience architect
- Act as a user experience advocate and lead a wide range of user research and design relevant tasks to assist product owner's effort of building a customer-centric application and champion the user experience.
- Demonstrate good understanding and practices of UX design principles, user research methodologies and fundamental usability guidelines through strong hands-on experiences and abilities.
- Consult various stakeholders and follow the internal process to get job done timely with quality and accurate translation of business context and user needs.
- Lead design review sessions with project teams, acquiring consensus and getting approvals on designs/documentation, and challenge core team to create a successful user experience and cohesive story
- Collaborate with a core team of various design disciplines and content writers and build and maintain a team rapport with creative team personnel, managers, & stakeholders
Highly involved in user research along with Product Owner and Client Engagement where client users will experience the product offering. Must have the ability to establish testing criteria, assess testing outcomes and work with project teams to adjust UX and functionality to meet the needs of the users.
ACCOUNTABILITIES & DECISION RIGHTS
- Produce user research deliverables and design artefacts to lead UX design practices.
- Create design options to lead design iteration process to generate best design solution. Provide input on information architecture
- UX Designer conceptualizes the UX then works with stakeholders and end users to validate design and recommend the end to end design strategy
- Work with Lead experience architect and other designers to makes UI and UX design decisions for high complexity solutions - including what options to present to stakeholders and making final decisions between competing designs; decision needs to align with the UX vision and information architecture and with the long-term Product roadmap
- Work with the various lab teams to develop and uphold UI standards (e.g. accessibility) or determine when exceptions can be granted
- Recommend user research methodologies and produce relevant deliverables.
CAPABILITIES & SKILLS
- BA/BS degree in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), HCI, CS, or a related field or equivalent experience.
- Ability to translate business and user requirements into logical and streamlined screen flows that support desirable user experience.
- Strong prototyping skill is a must, with tools like Axure and/or InVisionbeing a plus.
- 4-5+ years' UX design experience in web/digital products, experiences in finance industry is a plus.
- Strong interpersonal, presentation and communication skills
- Strong presentation and problem-solving skills
- Desire to work through the entire design process using methods like sketching, storyboarding, diagramming, wire-framing, usability testing and prototyping for screen-based experiences
- Solid knowledge of design tools (Adobe Photoshop and/or Sketch, Illustrator, and presentation software) and principles (typography, grid systems, visual hierarchy, color, white space, etc.)
- Fluent in communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale
- Portfolio of work samples showcasing work
- Experience working within a large organization is an asset
- Knowledge and/or experience in finance industry and agile process is preferred
This is a great role for the right candidate, so if you meet all the criteria above, then APPLY TODAY!