Senior Interaction Designer

Title: Senior Interaction Designer – Consultant
Practice: Design
Reports to: Head of Design
FLSA: Exempt
 
Why ChaiOne?
ChaiOne is a tight-knit bunch of creative, curious, and passionate people.  Here are a few reasons that we think you'd love it here:
  • You’ll work with some of the world’s largest energy & industrial companies.
  • You'll solve challenging, meaningful problems worth solving.
  • You’ll explore cutting edge technology, and harness its power to transform the way businesses operate.

Role Summary
The Senior Interaction Designer is responsible for working closely with other designers, researchers, project managers, and engineers to create client solutions that meld business objectives, design principles, and continuous user research into a compelling user experience.
 
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
  • Bring user-centered design (UCD) process methods to digital solutions from concept to launch by creating workflows, site maps, wireframes, visual design, prototypes, and key UX documentation.
  • Consolidate and translate research findings, team input, client needs/strategy and brand characteristics into authentic and usable interface solutions.
  • Produce estimates that are accurate, consistent, and achievable, that lead to the delivery of a high-quality product
  • Successfully & independently advocate the need and value of data-driven design to internal and external stakeholders
  • Handle increasingly complex and/or large scale projects within estimations (on time/within budget)
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of department best practices
  • Must be willing and available to work on client sites as required.
 
Competencies
  • Degree from a four-year design program
  • 3-5 years of experience
  • Strong grasp of basic design principles
    • Typography
    • Color theory
    • Layout & Composition
    • Image making
  • Ability to work with clients to design user experiences and interactions that successfully meet project needs with minimal oversight
  • Ability to communicate UX best practices to project team and client stakeholders 
  • Interaction Design Tool
    • Sketch (required)
  • Experience participating in and/or conducting Design Research / User Interviews
  • Experience designing based on User Experience Research
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Prototyping Tools
    • InVision App (required)
  • Experience and/or familiarity designing for web, iOS, and Android platforms, including responsive design
  • Experience working with Keynote presentations
  • Verbal & written communication
  • Storytelling
  • Presenting to a Client
  • Time management
  • Discipline
  • Collaborative - can work in cross-functional teams
  • Detail-oriented, down to the pixel
  • High energy, positive attitude
  • Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
  • Animations (plus)
  • Motion graphics (plus)
  • Familiarity with JIRA (plus)
 
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
 

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