Design Systems UX Designer

Overview

On Site
USD 80.00 - 90.00 per hour
Full Time

Skills

Customer Experience
Workflow
Product Strategy
Testing
Design Patterns
Cross-functional Team
Use Cases
SAP BASIS
Collaboration
Prototyping
Design Thinking
Product Development
Process Flow
Wireframe
Graphics Design
Mockups
Market Research
UCD
Usability Testing
Analytics
Omniture
Adobe SiteCatalyst
User Experience
User Interface Design
Leadership
Electronic Commerce
Web Design
UI
Interaction Design
Human-computer Interaction
HCI
Fluency
Information Architecture
Usability
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Fireworks
Microsoft Visio
Adobe Dreamweaver
User-centered Design
Communication
Presentations
Analytical Skill
Interactive Design
Attention To Detail
Agile
HTML
JavaScript
Cascading Style Sheets
Adobe Flash
Taxes
Life Insurance
Business Transformation
Law

Job Details

Our tech client is looking for a design systems expert to impact their product line of devices. This role will be a 6 month contract to start. Online portfolios must show a complex design systems case study. This role is hybrid, candidates must go into San Francisco, Seattle, or Sunnyvale office 3x per week.
Top Skills' Details
1. 7-10+ years of experience as a UX Designer design solutions for web and/or software applications.
2. Online portfolio of work showcasing strong design systems experience and expertise in Figma.
3. Experience presenting design work to the user experience team, product team, and executives for review and feedback.
Description
We are looking for a UX Designer to drive the vision, definition and design of multi-modal experiences across a range of devices. As a UX Designer on our team, you will have a significant impact on our business and drive the vision, definition and design of multitude of experiences. You will invent and deliver throughout the strategy, design, and development lifecycle to build customer-focused solutions at scale. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open and collaborative peer environment. You must be able to lead projects forward in the face of ambiguity. From the start, you will play an integral role in defining problems, driving alignment around key customer experience outcomes, building workflows, building and testing low-fidelity prototypes, and designing delightful and highly-usable digital experiences.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end process, from problem definition to delivery.
- Use business requirements, user, and market research to assist in developing scenarios, use cases and high-level requirements to shape product strategy.
- Work with partners to identify key jobs to be done.
- Design the information architecture, interface and interaction flows for Alexa multi-modal devices.
- Develop conceptual models that define the system of devices, wireframes, visual mockups, and prototypes.
- Design highly usable digital experiences by rapidly prototyping, testing and iterating on designs with internal partners.
- Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications and design patterns.
- Effectively work with project managers to plan projects for effective delivery while maintaining high standards for design.
- Be a passionate and effective advocate for design with non-design audiences.
- Write effectively to communicate design rationales and benefits to customers.
- Guide a cross-functional team and elevate the culture of UX thinking and design excellence.
A day in the life
In this highly visible role, you will work on some of the most challenging opportunities. You will use business requirements as well as user and market research to assist in developing scenarios, use cases, and high-level requirements. On a daily basis, you will collaborate with a team of world-class multi-disciplinary designers, researchers, engineers, product managers and executives. You will use a variety of methods, including wireframes, prototypes, storyboards, high-fidelity mockups and specifications to communicate design thinking to leadership, engineering and product partners at every phase of product development.
About the team
You will join a team of designers working across modalities and devices to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Customer obsession is at the core of all of our design decisions. We dive deep with product managers, designers, and engineers to learn how to better serve our customers. We work cross-functionally to craft scalable, cohesive, delightful, and highly-usable solutions. The team makes strategic decisions that allow partners to take action, move quickly, take ownership, and deliver results. We earn the trust of others within the team to foster an environment of inclusion and openness, allowing everyone to do their best every day.
Responsibilities
Quickly yet thoroughly create process flows, wireframes, and visual design mockups as needed to effectively conceptualize and communicate detailed interaction behaviors.
Work closely with cross-functional teams to help define business and feature requirements via empirical online data, usability findings, market research, and proven UCD principles.
Assess and optimize the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in usability testing and interpreting analytics data using Omniture SiteCatalyst.
Present design work to the user experience team, product team, and executives for review and feedback
Contribute to user interface design and development best practices and standards.
Provide leadership in the area of ecommerce trends, web application design, and user interface innovations.
7+ years industry experience providing interaction design solutions for web and/or software applications.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.
Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
Proficiency in a variety of design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Visio, and Dreamweaver.
A strong online portfolio demonstrating past work experience and relevant, user-centered design solutions is required.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications:
Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills including the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
Self-starter who is a customer-obsessed, detail-oriented, and enthusiastic team player.
Ability to work with highly technical teams and handle multiple projects in an agile, fast-paced environment.
Ability to prototype in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, or Flash highly desired.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $80.00 - $90.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in San Francisco,CA.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Jun 3, 2025.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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