User Interface/Experience Designer

Description

Job Description:

Eccalon is seeking an ambitious and open-minded product designer with a strong grasp of user experience, visual, and interaction design. In this role, you will work alongside an entrepreneurial team of designers, product leaders, engineers, and data scientists to design inclusive, immersive, and thought-provoking experiences for our members and untapped communities. This individual must thrive in creative environments and have experience solving complex design projects and will work with the product commercialization team to create impactful and dynamic visual interfaces for a diverse portfolio of products. You will collaborate with developers, Engineers, Functional Specialists, and clients to understand their challenges and craft solutions that help them to solve their toughest problems. This individual will be able to implement design thinking with a deep understanding of how to marry the needs of our customers with digital experiences that deliver.

Key Duties/responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and other designers to define great experiences from initial concept through successful implementation.
• Visualize and prototype intended solutions at various levels of fidelity including high-level wireframes, conceptual designs, design presentations and detailed specifications.
• Collaborate closely with one or more local or remote Agile Scrum teams, working iteratively to deliver customer value.
• Provide designs that meet all required accessibility requirements for both government and commercial systems.
• Use customer insights that come from analytics and customer interactions to help inform business and design decisions.
• Help to facilitate and participate in user research like interviews and usability testing to validate designs and make iterative improvements.
• Participate in and lead design-thinking exercises to break through organizational silos and collaboratively solve complex design challenges.
• Produce sketches, workflow diagrams, wireframes, prototypes, design.
• Lead product demos to clients and key stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience utilizing a variety of human-centered design methods and best practices.
• Experience leading user research - interviews, ethnography, user testing, etc.
  
  

Key Skills

• Takes the lead on projects with minimal oversight.
• Leans into complex problem spaces and proactively engages with teammates to drive towards shared understanding and clarity.
• Brings expertise and experience to the team and makes others around them better by sharing best practices, ideas, and feedback.
• Naturally curious and proactively asks questions to increase understanding of customer needs and business strategy.
• Works to develop empathy for customers and is a strong advocate for their needs.
• A systems thinker – loves exploring how different parts of a complex system fit together and can be made to work seamlessly.
• Understanding of UI/UX and website design, web movement, functionality, and conversion preferable
• Video editing knowledge is a plus.
• Knowledge of Print/Web art requirements
• Experience with Content Management Systems a plus
• Advanced communication skills catered to a wide variety of audiences (e.g. written, verbal, and presentation).
• Demonstrated versatility and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to take extreme ownership over your work.
• A passion for software development and a commitment to continued learning and growth.
• Collaborative and open-minded
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities.
  
  

Education And Experience

• 5+ years’ experience as a Product Designer or UX designer with demonstrated experience working with product management teams and technical stakeholders to articulate front-end functional requirements.
• Quality portfolio of recent work “Please include your portfolio with your application. Your portfolio should show examples of the user-centered design process, design thinking, as well as your final design solutions.”
• BA/BS or graduate degree in HCI, interaction design, or equivalent experience
• Experience with agile software design methods
• Experience supporting a complex ecosystem with multiple products.
• Comfortable working on a distributed team and collaborating remotely.
• Experience concepting and designing digital interactive for web.
• Experience across varying products and platforms, mobile apps
• Expertise in typography, composition, color, layout, design thinking, and content strategy in the design solutions you create.
• Familiarity and experience with standard design, prototyping and user research tools, such as Figma, Miro, Adobe CS
• Expert knowledge and experience with visual designer tools and skills (we currently use Sketch, Figma & AdobeXT)
  
  

About the Organization Eccalon provides global solutions to the most challenging technological issues of the 21st-century, and our evolving portfolio spans five major markets: Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Aerospace & Defense, Material Sciences, Advance Manufacturing, Sports Science, Biotechnology, and Health & Life Sciences.

Why Join Us?

Eccalon's Executives foster a supportive work environment allowing our teams to thrive, and have a fierce dedication to innovation, security, and people. Our culture is built on inclusion, teamwork, trust, and we are committed to offering career advancement opportunities to all employees. Encouraging a healthy and balanced life, we offer an extensive benefits package to support the wellness of our employees and their families. You will be joining a team of innovators, working with cutting edge technologies, supporting mission critical projects, and making an impact.

Apply today to advance your career!

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Eccalon provides global solutions to the most challenging technological issues of the 21st-century, and our evolving portfolio spans five major markets: Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Aerospace & Defense, Material Sciences, Advance Manufacturing, Sports Science, Biotechnology, and Health & Life Sciences.