Jr. User Interface (UI) Designer

Summary

Collabera is a leading IT staffing firm established in 1991, providing comprehensive IT staffing and services. The Junior UI Designer will collaborate with UX Designers and Researchers to create user experiences for AmericanExpress.com, focusing on transforming ideas into tangible design assets and ensuring adherence to design best practices.

Responsibilities

• Transform ideas, business opportunities, research and creative vision into tangible assets that provide clear, usable, useful and desirable outcomes for users
• Create UI comps, pattern sets, details and assets for usability testing and live production environments, develop high / low fidelity prototypes, story boards and a wide range of UI assets and deliverables
• Work closely with team leads to drive best digital experiences through all phases of product development, ship, and iterate
• Effectively act on partner feedback integrating user testing results and learning’s to improve the creative production process and ultimately our products and services
• Develop fast moving, tangible design process that deliver quality experiences within sprint cycles
• Brainstorm, ideate, and iterate as needed
• Work in collaboration with key project team members, including user experience researchers, product owners, tech leads, developers, strategy, PM, and UX
• Be a passionate advocate for the user, ground ideas in data driven solutions by partnering with our User Experience Research team to incorporate customer insights and principles throughout the creative process and still be bold enough to let design intuition guide you
• Ensure adherence to design best practices, standards, brand consistency
• Critical understanding of digital graphic design, typography, and interface design guidelines, practices, and best practices

Skills

• 0-3 years UI / Interaction experience designing consumer facing applications, websites and mobile experiences
• Ability to simplify and turn complex interactions into intuitive user experiences
• Exceptional skills in ideation, sketching, concepting, brainstorming, and UI asset production
• Ability to create both low fidelity usable prototypes
• Fluency with design tools, most notably Photoshop, InDesign, Ilustrator, OmniGraffle, Invision and/or other prototyping software
• Introductory knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Introductory knowledge and/or experience working in agile product development
• Introductory knowledge and/or experience designing responsively across devices
• Introductory knowledge and/or experience designing for multiple devices and platforms, understanding responsive layouts and how to optimize design for flexible layout treatments
• Excellent relationship management, verbal & written communication skills
• Clear and confident communicator with an affinity for visual storytelling
• Capacity to take ownership of tasks, and drive projects through to completion
• Clear and demonstrable attitude of emergence – the drive to develop oneself and the hunger to innovate and stay current in the industry
• Strong portfolio showing breadth of UI Design work
• Keen sense of humor

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 0-3 years UI / Interaction experience designing consumer facing applications, websites and mobile experiences
• Ability to simplify and turn complex interactions into intuitive user experiences
• Exceptional skills in ideation, sketching, concepting, brainstorming, and UI asset production
• Ability to create both low fidelity usable prototypes
• Fluency with design tools, most notably Photoshop, InDesign, Ilustrator, OmniGraffle, Invision and/or other prototyping software
• Introductory knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Introductory knowledge and/or experience working in agile product development
• Introductory knowledge and/or experience designing responsively across devices
• Introductory knowledge and/or experience designing for multiple devices and platforms, understanding responsive layouts and how to optimize design for flexible layout treatments
• Excellent relationship management, verbal & written communication skills
• Clear and confident communicator with an affinity for visual storytelling
• Capacity to take ownership of tasks, and drive projects through to completion
• Clear and demonstrable attitude of emergence – the drive to develop oneself and the hunger to innovate and stay current in the industry
• Strong portfolio showing breadth of UI Design work
• Keen sense of humor

Benefits

• Paid vacations
• Holidays
• Personal days
• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance
• 401K retirement savings plan
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance