JOB SUMMARY
Ceterus is seeking an ambitious and dynamic individual to join our team as the User Experience Designer. The UX Designer will work closely with Product Managers, Business Process Analysts, Front End Developers, and Visual Designers to create engaging solutions on our Edge platform for our end users, while advocating for their needs during the production process. The UX Designer will help shape how accountants, business process analysts, and customers effectively use and interact with all of our Edge Products.
The successful candidate will work to understand the needs of internal stakeholders and assist them in achieving the requires business goals and the instructional goals of the users. This role will require a high degree of collaboration across all functions and will require the individual to be organized, detail-oriented, communicative, and accountable. In addition, the successful candidate will understand the relationship between user-friendly design and the science of human-computer interaction while successfully integrating them into our products.
What you’ll do:
- Collaborate with Senior Product Designer, Product Managers, and Business Process Analysts to define user personas and use cases and write user stories and epics.
- Define the user experience for all Edge Products by creating storyboards and wireframes for regular usability tests in order to determine how the user is going to successfully interact with them.
- Transform complex tasks into an intuitive, easy-to-use experience through thoughtful experience and interaction design. Anticipate what end users need and advocate for them, ensuring interactions are as simple and efficient as possible in order to accomplish user goals.
- Collaborate with Senior Product Designer, Product Managers, and Business Process Analysts during all stages of user research and design prototyping to validate and test ideas, including observational studies, customer interviews, usability testing, and other forms of discovery.
- Effectively communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually, including presenting to product managers, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
- Collaborate with Senior Product Designer, Business Process Analysts, and Product Managers on creation of interactive POC prototypes.
- Ensure that all Edge products have a cohesive and seamless flow so that the user can intuitively navigate the whole experience.
- Explore and promote ways to streamline digital product development processes
- Work with the Senior Product Designer to implement best practices towards excellent design and brand experiences
- Collaborates with team leaders and managers to meet project milestones and deadlines
- Create user experience and functional specification documentation to provide guidance to production, software development and QA teams, overseeing and ensuring that design and functionality are successfully implemented.
REQUIREMENTS
What we’re looking for:
- 5 years of professional experience in interaction design or user experience design.
- Experience with JavaScript
- Understanding of current front-end web technologies, native interface guidelines, web services, and APIs.
- Experience with design principles such as responsive design, mobile first design, and data driven design.
- High proficiency in a Macintosh-based design environment using Adobe Creative Cloud applications, Sketch, and any relevant prototyping tools.
- Experience in a collaborative working environment.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to manage project deliverable to schedule and budget.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and problem solving.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment.
- High attention to detail, strong project management skills, and ability to multi-task across competing projects and deadlines.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Strong organization, multi-tasking and time management skills.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent experience, with an emphasis on Visual Design, User Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction or Computer Science
- Experience with Microsoft Office and JIRA preferred
BENEFITS
How We Take Care of Our People:
Without our team members, our mission would simply be an idea. We recognize and value this contribution, and believe in showing our appreciation to our growing Charleston team.
Top-Notch Medical Benefits:
Including industry-leading medical, dental, and vision plans -- and many more benefits that allow our team members to prosper.
Employee Stock Options:
Do you work better with a little skin in the game? Us too. To that end, we offer competitive options for our team members to plan for the future with us.
An Environment that Works:
We believe every way we can empower our team members to succeed allows us to better serve our customers and our mission. Enter our next-generation, casual workspace.
Let’s Get Social:
We believe a close team is a strong team, so bringing our people together to celebrate and socialize is important to us.
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Ceterus recognizes the value of diversity and inclusion in our workplace. We are committed to equal opportunity and believe that inclusivity benefits us all. We actively seek and consider all qualified employment applications without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sexual preference, partnership status, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions and protected veteran status, status of participation in the U.S. Armed Services, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.
Individuals who hold legal work authorization applicable to employment in the United States will be considered without regard to citizenship/alienage. Ceterus is an Equal Opportunity Employer, an e-Verify Employer and committed to Affirmative Action.
Ceterus encourages women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and members or veterans of the U.S. Armed Services to apply.
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