Description
Purposes:
Reports to Systems Function & Design Manager
The Interaction Designer is an assigned member of a Project Team within a portfolio and is accountable for the following activities:
- Assists in the creation and execution of the product vision and road map.
- Gathers and documents product and project requirements for the user interface.
- Prototype potential solutions for approval.
- Present prototypes to various audiences for approval.
- Leads all aspects of user testing and validation.
- Communicates user interface requirements to the Development Team.
- Directs the work of the Analyst (if one is needed and assigned to the project)
- Coordinates efforts with other Interaction Designers that have connections or overlap with their project.
- Ensures that the user experience of the end product meets the original intent and is of the highest possible quality.
Key Relationships: Design Manager, Product Manager, Program Manager, ICS Project Team
This is a contingent role and is expected to last 1 year and is eligible for a 1 year renewal based on performance, need, and budget.
Qualifications:Consultant:
- Exceptional communication skills in interactions with clients, end users, developers and others throughout the design process.
- Exceptional ability to create and share a vision.
- Exceptional ability to build and maintain relationships
- Exceptional ability to persuade and teach without manipulation.
- Exceptional ability to resolve conflict and disparate opinions.
- Exceptional ability to view problems from a holistic viewpoint and accurately pinpoint their root cause.
- Exceptional ability to research and understand a customer's needs, problems, and potential design constraints.
- Exceptional ability to instruct others about design principles, patterns, and processes.
Design Aptitude:
- Comprehensive knowledge of design & usability solutions, both historical and current.
- Comprehensive knowledge of design processes, including research and analysis.
- Comprehensive knowledge of design principles, including: hierarchy, composition, color, balance, harmony, typography, interaction, etc.
- Expert ability in writing and producing useful project documentation (design briefs, audience definition, comparative analysis, prototype notes, etc.)
- Expert ability to effectively communicate visually through drawings, diagrams, prototypes, flow charts, etc.
- Expert ability in creating content structure and flow.
- Expert ability to creatively develop solutions from ambiguous or ill-formed requirements.
- Expert knowledge and application of Design tools including Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator, etc.
Technical Aptitude:
- General knowledge of processes and methods (i.e. Agile, Scrum)
- General knowledge and skill in web standards development and best practices (i.e. XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.).
- General knowledge in rich-media development platforms, including: Flash/Flex, WPF/Silverlight, etc.
- General knowledge in server-side technologies, including: JSP, Xquery, etc.
- General knowledge in working with our enterprise software technologies and business reporting tools, including: Corda, Business Objects, etc.
Team Player:
- Demonstrated ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team to accomplish assigned tasks
- Demonstrated ability to see beyond boundaries of roles and job descriptions when tasks need attention.
- Demonstrated ability to sacrifice personal agendas to accomplish the greater goal of the team.
- Demonstrated ability to speak up appropriately when challenges arise in a team.
Must be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and currently temple worthy.
Posting Notice:Please Note: All positions are subject to close without notice.
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