UX Product Designer Consultant/Expert/ Dearborn, MI (Remote) 12 Months Contract
Suncap Technology
- Dearborn, MI
- Contract
- Full-time
- Designs lean, iterative, and development-ready solutions that can scale for the future, but understand the technology constraints of the now.
- Thinks deeply about the user experience balanced with business goals to inform their designs.
- Leads the product team (Product Owner, Project Manager, Software Engineers) through the user-centered design process with collaborative workshops for discovery and ideation.
- Applies user research insights to drive product design and strategy, and help your team understand why and how to build better experiences.
- Plans and executes user research in collaboration with internal stakeholders, and shares findings broadly across the organization.
- Craft beautiful and usable designs for digital products by applying your domain expertise, deep research findings, and collaborating with peers across the product organization.
- Conduct user research and experiments from planning to synthesis.
- Play an active role in advocating for a Human-Centered Design process and creating a collaborative environment.
- Engage and inspire the product organization about our customers' experiences through powerful story-telling of the human-centered design process, research insights, and customer journeys.
- Lead as a 'player/coach' – owning UX design and mentoring less experienced designers.
- 4+ years of experience as a UX/Interaction/Product Designer working across a breadth of digital media.
- 2+ years of experience leading the human-centered design process with highly collaborative, multidisciplinary teams.
- Demonstrable experience in UX design and research in all phases across a variety of projects and mediums.
- Deep expertise in Interaction & Visual Design, Information Architecture, UX Writing, and UX Research. Advanced knowledge of Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, and/or other design and prototyping software.
- Visualize and test concepts at varying levels of fidelity – napkin sketches, sacrificial concepts, wireframes, interactive & functional prototypes, development-ready assets.
- Experience synthesizing research findings into actionable insights that inform strategic decisions and design solutions.