Principal UX Designer/Specialist

Principal UX Designer/Specialist

Job Location: Bangalore

Full time

Overview

Designs experiences for acquisition, care or product across all platforms using a variety of graphics software applications, techniques, and tools. Designs, prototypes and develops user interface features, site animation, and special effects elements to both communicate and move a user efficiently and effortlessly through tasks and experiences. Analyzes strategy and contributes to the design groups efforts to enhance the look and feel of the organization's digital offerings.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Has advanced knowledge of UX design principles.

• Can independently manage multiple large-scale projects involving the management of both internal and external talent.

• Responsible for applying those levels of knowledge and professional experience to the development of Aezion design processes, roles and resources.

• Simplifying and translating complex business and software development workflows into easy-to-use experiences for a technical audience

• Collaborating with enterprise partners to create new interface and interactions patterns.

• Creating consistent visual conventions across the application

• Working closely with product and customer success teams to gather and incorporate user feedback and feature requests into the interface.

• Identifying and establishing design needs, requirements, and acceptance criteria

Collaboration & Connection

• Collaborating with software architects and engineers, product managers, and research teams to uncover customer and business needs - then translating them into intuitive and engaging digital experiences.

• Participating in translating complex ideas into understandable concepts that evolve and enhance the product interface.

• Advocating for the customer through human centered design methodologies, including: discovery, ideation, sketch sessions, and user testing.

• Supporting design led workshops to engage and build alignment across different partners and teams.

• Championing prioritization of design centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis.

• Connecting with design community peers by learning, sharing, and teaching

• Participating in hiring by reviewing resumes, conducting interviews and attending consensus.

Discovery & Delivery

• Supporting early product definition by working with partners to facilitate discovery sessions that uncover customer pain points and opportunities.

• Demonstrating familiarity with design tools to deliver concepts and enable successful collaboration across teams.

• Contributing to style guides, iconography, and infographics that can be leveraged by teams.

• Participating in end-to-end product design by:

o Working with researchers to understand customer needs and interpreting information into visual forms that are impactful and intuitive.

o Framing problems, determining insights, and defining visual designs to serve customer needs.

o Ideating, sketching, and delivering low to high fidelity prototypes.

o Designing within existing - and creating new - standards to contribute to our internal design system, best practices, and guidelines.

o Storytelling and presenting visual concepts to various stakeholders.

o Creating high fidelity design assets for acceptance, development, and delivery to market in partnership with technology colleagues

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred Bachelor of Science degree in Human Computer Interaction, Interactive Media, or Graphic Design or equivalent experience.

• Experience designing software or mobile applications, enterprise applications a bonus.

• Experience creating responsive web layouts.

• Experience designing for cross channel experiences.

• Experience creating components and interactive prototypes in Figma/Adobe XD.

• Comfortable working with a variety of business partners and delivering outcomes.

• Familiarity with design and prototyping tools, such as Sketch and/or Figma.

• Familiarity with working in an established design system.

• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and writing code.

• Familiarity with product development from inception to release.

Experience

Senior-level, real- world experience in design (8-10 years) with working knowledge of managing projects independently.