Job Description :
Senior UX Architect

Location: Creve Coeur, MO
Duration: 10-11 months

Description:
Products and Engineering

Our Team:
Manager are a passionate and highly-collaborative team of UX / product designers working closely with engineers, product managers, and platform leads to research, explore, and iterate on well-crafted user experiences that are innovative, engaging and delightful. Manager build consensus around our work in everyday interactions through design reviews, workshops, user testing, and presentations to influence the direction of a product, and to inspire the company as a whole.

About Candidate:
Candidate are a natural problem solver who loves a good challenge. Candidate also know that the first answer is rarely the best answer. Candidate have a plethora of empathy and care about understanding the user’s needs and wants. Candidate always come to the table with more than one option, thoughtfully exploring different directions and how they impact the user’s experience. Candidate can articulate design choices and strategy in a way that’s easily understood by team members and stakeholders from different global organizations.

Responsibilities:
- Create innovative solutions to difficult challenges using a human-centered design methodology
- Partner with fellow UX architects & designers, product managers, and agile development teams to identify and enact opportunities
- Coordinate and conduct appropriate user experience techniques throughout a product lifecycle across design, research, and evaluation
- Identify and execute research or immersion activities including: contextual inquiries, interviews, focus groups, design sprints, journey mapping sessions, card sorts, UX testing, and other techniques
- Create team and business aligning deliverables including: concise research documentation, personas, current / to be journey maps, workflows, storyboards, wireframes / comps, prototypes, and similar deliverables
- Analyze and present research results to a wide range of audiences
- Make design recommendations via wireframes or comps based on expertise and conducted research
- Express concepts through clear visuals and storytelling
- Contribute to strategic meetings and decisions
- Design within an enterprise design system to craft solutions to customer design problems
- Encourage and uphold high standards for our product experiences
- Serve as an ambassador and educator for Product Design within the org and in the broader community

Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field
- Demonstrable experience in mobile and web-based products and projects
- Demonstrate strong user research, interaction design, requirement gathering, prototyping, and overall UX skills applied in various situations
- Strong acumen in Axure, InVision, Sketch, JustinMind or similar prototyping / design tools
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Passionate about human-centered design (HCD), Customer/User Experience (C/UX), and Design Thinking

Bonus Skills/Experience:
- Strong visual design skills and fluency in Adobe CS and other high fidelity tools
- Masters or PhD in HCI, Design, Human Factors, Psychology, or related field
- Experience in agriculture, biotechnology, and/or government regulated industries
- HTML, CSS, and JS skills are a plus

Additional Info:
- Help and coordinate and plan the US experience of a product in the Customer face, externally facing or towards the Sales Team.
- Will work with Product Managers, stakeholders, customers and users
- Open due to some transitioning happening on the team and more work coming in.
- Newer team setting the stage, new area with customer space, building new relationships. Collaborative and dynamic.
- Must Haves: Protyping and facilitating. Good presentation skills.
- Nice to haves: Adobe CS. Some kind of higher education.
- Could extend depending on performance and business needs
- Soft Skills: good communication skills. Able to work and thrive in a collaborative environment.
             

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