UX Designer Senior - Figma (strongly preferred)
8 days ago
Ferndale
Job Description Title: UX Designer Senior Location: Detroit, MI(Hybrid) Duration: 12+ Months Will this position be required to work onsite for any reason at any time? Yes Engagement Description – User experience is part strategy, part research, part design. The UX designer works with key stakeholders and conducts research to understand business needs, end-user insights, and the competitive landscape, to shape the UX direction to achieve business objectives. The UX designer then creates a design based on the direction, collaborating with content writers and UI designers. The overall design should facilitate a user experience that is usable, accessible, and delightful to end-users using human-centered design principles and best practices. Top 3 Required Skills/Experience – The most important must-have skills. Include: Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in the following: Required Skills/Experience – The rest of the required skills/experience. Include: • Participates in requirement-gathering activities to identify business needs, user goals and measures of success, • Visualizes concepts and design through sketches, wireframes and prototypes to validate product concepts with users, team members and stakeholders., • Establishes buy-in and understanding of larger user experience design vision through presentation of artifacts (from studies to process flows), • Experience creating and aligning to a design system. Building style guides, pattern libraries, and components to codify a product's design language., • Component library management, version control, and collaboration workflows in Figma., • Ability to design components optimized for responsiveness, including mobile, tablet, and desktop variations., • Strong understanding of component scalability. Design once, use everywhere., • Plans, sets up, and executes on remote or in-person usability studies to identify usability issues and opportunities for improvements, • Develops experience maps to establish the direction of the user experience across customer's touchpoints with a product, • Research current design and technology trends, cognitive psychology and human machine interaction, • Structure, organize and label information so that it is most meaningful to users, • Iterates on designs based on user feedback, • Advocates for human-centered design through evangelization and relationship-building Preferred Skills/Experience – Optional but preferred skills/experience. Include: • Strong Visual and Interaction Design skills., • Basic knowledge of programing and working within complex data systems. Understand how coding or data/service limitations can affect the implementation or capabilities of a design., • Experience leading a project and/or team. Strong leadership skills. Education/Certifications – Include: • Bachelor's degree in related field required, • Master's degree in related field preferred At Kyyba, the overall well-being of our employees and their families is important to us. We are proud of our work culture which embodies our core values; incorporating value, passion, excellence, empowerment, and happiness, creates a vibrant and productive atmosphere. We empower our employees with the resources, incentives, and flexibility that they need to support a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling career by providing many valuable benefits and a balanced compensation structure combined with career development. Kyyba is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Kyyba does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other bFounded in 1998 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI, Kyyba has a global presence delivering high-quality resources and top-notch recruiting services, enabling businesses to effectively respond to organizational changes and technological advances.\r\n\r\nAt Kyyba, the overall well-being of our employees and their families is important to us. We are proud of our work culture which embodies our core values; incorporating value, passion, excellence, empowerment, and happiness, creates a vibrant and productive atmosphere. We empower our employees with the resources, incentives, and flexibility that they need to support a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling career by providing many valuable benefits and a balanced compensation structure combined with career development.\r\n\r\nKyyba is an Equal Opportunity Employer.\r\n\r\nKyyba does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other b