Strategic Designer - Digital UI/UX - New Digital Business

POSITION SUMMARY -

We are looking for an exemplary Digital UI/UX to help drive the rapid growth of new digital business. Our purpose is to help companies imagine, bring-to-life and launch digital products and solutions. To do this, we- ve assembled a group of world-class experience design, data sciences and technology professionals with deep knowledge and experience in building digital businesses and solutions - from mobile applications and ecommerce, to new and emerging digital solutions yet to be realized

OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY: Develop ethnographic research and contextual design investigations to understand customer behaviors, pain points, and needs, create/update and prototype digital user interfaces and physical products.

- Responsible for understanding a client's vision and intent; conducting stakeholder conversations and workshops

- Develops understanding of users and customers through primary and secondary research, able to come up with a research plan and lead a team through the process of research and synthesis

- Bring research to life through personas, customer journeys, insight-opportunity frameworks, system maps, user stories, sketches and scenarios that meet your customer profiles in a multi-device approach

- Prepare low fidelity prototypes of digital solutions; ranging from paper sketches to wireframes or interactive prototypes.

- Presents Concepts and designs to the customer for review and iteration. Capable of working directly with customers in an iterative manner to improve prototypes.

- Able to explain the design philosophy verbally and convince stakeholders of the process.

- Engaging with solution architects and technical teams to deliver digital solutions IDEAL BACKGROUND:

- BA or MA degrees in design, business, psychology, strategy or another relevant field

- NID candidates are preferred.

- Engaging with clients and client teams on a daily basis; demonstrated through experience

- Experience with ethnographic research (quant. and qual.), divergent exploration, conceptual development and interaction design

- Hands on experience with design and research tools; like Sketch, Adobe CS, Invision, Optimal Sort etc.

- At least 12+ years of professional experience

- Ideally experience in the start-up scene and/or with innovative tech firms, e.g., founding of own start-up or Silicon Valley history, large or complex system integration projects

- Strong drive and motivation

- Possesses curiosity for technical environment, UI, web and mobile applications

KEY COMPETENCIES

- Passion for design of digital products and services; awareness of trends

- Outstanding all-around problem solving skills

- Interpersonal/ communication skills, including:

- Self-motivated, takes initiative, possesses creative problem-solving skills and willingness to offer suggestions for improvement; builds relationships to leverage resources

- Demonstrated diligence, attention to detail and technical intuition.

- Service-oriented, flexible, positive team player

- Possesses organization skills and composure: ability to handle competing priorities and to work effectively in a challenging fast paced environment

- Exercises judgment in managing confidential/sensitive information; trustworthy

- Work management, organization and planning

- Values and ethics

- Must be able to perform successfully in a fast-paced, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment and to interpret rules and guidelines flexibly to enhance the business and in keeping with values and culture.

- Experience working successfully within a complex matrix structured organization is essential.

- It is necessary to have the ability to understand and manage complex reporting relationships and incorporate multiple labor laws and cultures.

If there are any questions or clarifications, please feel free to get in touch with us.