User Experience Designer

Overview

As UX Designer on the Music team for our major Tech client, you will help lead UX design for gamification across marketing, growth, and product opportunities from discovery and research to concept development, wireframes, and high-fidelity mocks spanning multiple platforms. You will be working from high-level requirements to define product design flows, interactions, and content strategies in collaboration with business leaders, engineers, product managers, and other UX and visual designers. The team will look to you to help identify opportunities to incorporate the best current thinking into product designs while also envisioning and creating new experiences for future features. To be successful you must be a critical, inventive thinker with clear design chops, an excitement for understanding and using data, and an ability to communicate your ideas effectively. Being a big music fan is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Be the UX design lead for projects across a range of platforms that touch numerous aspects of the Music experience
• Run the full experience design process (i.e., discovery, research, concept development, wireframes, high-fidelity mocks) with a particular focus on customer mindsets, flows, and journeys
• Work from high-level requirements and ask the right questions to gather all relevant information to guide design direction
• Quickly iterate on multiple design explorations to arrive at simple, but robust solutions, accounting for complex requirements
• Validate designs through research and testing
• Design for current experiences while also envisioning and creating new experiences for future features
• Stay current on emerging UX and digital behavior trends, music and design innovations, and broader technological shifts, as well as identify opportunities to incorporate best current thinking into product designs
• Collaborate on and present work to a range of stakeholders – executives, engineers, product managers, business leaders, researchers, other UX and visual designers

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in design (UX, product), HCI, behavioral economics, cognitive psychology, or related field or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years of experience in UX design and research for products on web, mobile, voice or emerging platforms
• Experience working in direct collaboration with product managers, front and back-end engineers, and business or editorial stakeholders
• Strong online portfolio and results in digital (web and app, if not also emerging platform and voice) work
• Proven ability to present a strategic rationale for design decisions to executive-level stakeholders
• Experience demonstrating ownership of projects and communicating timelines, executing independently
• Experience designing with Pattern Libraries and using a variety of research and testing methodologies
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills including the ability to present design concepts clearly and persuasively to colleagues, partners, and stakeholders
• Ability to work efficiently and demonstrate a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment
• Relentless desire for innovation, balanced with business needs and customer expectations
• Proficiency in UX design and prototyping tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• Lead product designer for medium to large projects that present multidisciplinary challenges and span multiple platforms and departments
• Expertise in complex service design challenges
• Experienced in integrating qualitative and quantitative data into design work and iterations

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $77.45 to $86.05/hr. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location. Additional benefits offered may include; medical health insurance and dental insurance, life insurance, and eligibility to participate in 401k plan with company match (if applicable)

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Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits! 

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