Product Designer- Specialist II With Strong 15+yrs UI/UX Design

Location:2 Montgomery Street, Jersey City NJ

Duration:12+ months ONSITE

Onsite - Need only local

Domain of this project - Digital Customer Service Experience Group.

Scope of the Project:

Under the direction of the manager of the Web Services Manager, the Product Designer is responsible for designing and executing new concepts for the agency's online portals. These include but are not limited to our websites, mobile applications, and the content that resides within them. The Product Designer will leverage best UI/UX design practices and accessibility standards while creating concepts, and will work with the development teams to ensure the concepts are implemented properly during development and take factor of technical requirements. The Product Designer will also often interface directly with project stakeholders to gather requirements and input for designs.

Job description:

The Product Designer will be responsible for developing and executing creative /visual concepts for the agency's online communications and mobile portals. This position will also be responsible for managing and updating content in our mobile portals.

Under the direction of the Manager, Digital Customer Service/Web Service the selected candidate will:

Participate in strategy and brainstorm sessions to understand user behavior, needs, and pain points including clients, to provide creative input, help articulate their vision, and define goals.

Manage the schedule and update changes to "static copy to ensure consistency with changes to the PA brand.

Contribute wireframes, user flows, interaction prototypes, and other design specification materials.

Work closely with developers to turn your designs into real products, prototype designs using wireframes & low-fidelity mockups. You'll wireframe and prototype designs that address the project goals while staying within the requirements.

Design compelling web, app, and email experiences. You'll partner with our department managers to select a direction from the prototypes you create and then you'll turn it into a high-fidelity design that you can hand off to the developer.

Maintain brand consistency across all the agency's portals (apps, websites, emails) and adhere to design guidelines.

Plan and conduct usability testing sessions to gather user feedback and validate design decisions. Make necessary adjustments to improve usability.

Partner with a front-end developer to bring your designs to life. You'll work directly with a front-end developer to convert your designs into HTML, CSS, and Java script.

Ability to design attractive, useable web pages and application UX mockups in Illustrator, Sketch, or the program of your choice.

Experience wireframing & iterating on designs based on user feedback.

Experience working with JavaScript, HTML, & CSS is helpful but not required.

Design beautiful user interfaces, with a focus on native mobile

Promote best practices in UI, UX, and interaction design

Ensure brand consistency

Ability to execute against the current corporate design standards

Comfortable working in a dynamic, agile team-based environment

Collaboration and communication skills with the management, agile, creative, production and technical team members

Skills creating look and feel explorations sketches and mood boards, high and low fidelity mockups, and design work presentations

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Candidate must have 15+ years professional experience in front-end-web development, web-based design and publishing, in a design studio or agency environment, Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Master of Sketch and the Creative Suite, or MFA in graphic design, and 8 years professional experience

Experience in client services strongly preferred

Ability to explain and sell design decisions to clients and stakeholders

Experience building interactive and /or dynamic applications A track record of consistently great work, and a portfolio to prove it

Proficient in Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign).

Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud and Sketch

Knowledge of HTML, mobile-first design/responsive web design. After Effects or motion design a plus.

Ability to create wireframes and sitemaps.

Ability to manage multiple projects, meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment, and prioritize your time based on team needs.

On set photoshoot experience, knowledge of photography, and retouching a plus.

Expertise in mobile responsive design / building responsive email templates

Candidates must also possess the following:

Strong UX and design sensibilities, and a desire to sweat the small stuff;

Technical background with expertise in engineering principles and design patterns;

Passionate about writing clean, modern, maintainable, & highly-performant code;

Ability to troubleshoot and solve problems;

Have a positive, collaborative, and solution-oriented approach; Experience with working in an Agile team;

Experience with Typescript is a plus.