Mid/Senior User Experience Designer

Company: DesignX Community
Location: Leesburg
Posted on: October 24, 2024

Job Description:

Description
Kollabio, a growing boutique technology consulting firm that provides Digital Transformation solutions and services to public and private sector organizations, is seeking a creative, collaborative, and empathetic User Experience Designer to work across a variety of Kollabio projects. Ideal candidate will be passionate about designing web/mobile experiences users love and perform efficiently in a fast-paced Agile team setting.
As a UX Designer, you will play a fundamental role in our product development process as part of our UX/UI design team. In this role, you will work side-by-side with product managers, software engineers, and business stakeholders to build high-performing and user-centric products designed to aid digital transformation of private and public sector organizations.
Responsibilities

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• Design clear, intuitive, and delightful experiences for external and internal users across a set of web-based, mobile, and responsive products.
  
• Apply a visual design system (e.g. Atomic design system) to design, develop and deploy prototypes, as needed.
  
• Collaborate with product managers, business stakeholders and technologists to understand and act upon key business requirements.
  
• Conduct thoughtful, resource-efficient user research to uncover usability problems or validate designs.
  
• Translate ideas into user flows, journey maps, empathy maps, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.
  
• Participate in the product development process from definition through design, build, test, release, and maintenance.
  
• Work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to stay on Sprint schedule.
  
• Collaborate with customer Product Owner to analyze and document user requirements. Support internal Product Manager to translate user requirements into backlog items such as Epics and User Stories.
  
• Stay abreast of UX trends and source creative ideas and inspiration from parallel analogous worlds.
  
  Requirements
  Required Skills & Qualifications
  
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  • 7+ years of UX/UI experience in an Agile development environment within a fast-paced, startup, or high-growth company.
    
  • Strong understanding of the end-to-end UX/UI lifecycle, responsive web, and mobile application design, and wireframe development.
    
  • Strong proficiency in using whiteboarding, sketching on pencil and paper, using post-it notes, wireframes, or other forms of low-fidelity design to validate assumptions and communicate with stakeholders.
    
  • Experience with developing user journeys and personas and using them to make effective design decisions.
    
  • Demonstrated proficiency with prototyping in Figma or Invision or Sketch.
    
  • A love of teamwork and great communication, demonstrated by meaningful experience collaborating directly with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders.
    
  • Excellent eye and visual taste, including a passion for simplicity and a clean, crisp aesthetic.
    
  • A diverse web and mobile portfolio that showcases your style, proficiency, and approach to problem-solving.
    
  • The ability to work independently and proactively but with accountability to multiple stakeholders, both internal and external.
    
  • An understanding of how to balance your extreme attention to detail with the need to work efficiently, be adaptable, and meet deadlines.
    
  • Prior experience working in a fast-paced Agile development environment (2-week Sprints).
    
  • U.S. Citizenship is required for this role due to Government contract requirements.
    
    Desired Skills & Qualifications
    
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    • Experience and familiarity in Business Analysis and Product Ownership is a huge plus.
      
    • Experience or familiarity with front end development frameworks such as Vue.js, etc.
      
    • Experience with Agile ALM tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
      
    • Experience with creating design systems using techniques such as atomic design.
      
    • Experience with applying Design Thinking and related techniques to experience design.
      
    • Interested candidates must provide a resume that includes a link to an online portfolio of their work.
      
      Benefits
      Our Values and Culture
      We believe everything great starts with inspired people empowered to collaborate, innovate, and deliver awesome customer experiences. People are at the heart of our operations. Our people are what make us thrive. We are a company that rewards commitment to excellence, entrepreneurialism and focus on customer success. We take our work seriously - but also take time to unwind, have fun and connect with each other and our customers. We bring people with diverse backgrounds together and empower them to co-create with our customers to solve problems and build better experiences for their users.
      At Kollabio, you'll be envisioning, designing, and building solutions that change the way businesses interact with their customers. While you dedicate your time to making the world a more engaging place, we invest in your growth, success, and happiness, and celebrate our accomplishments together.
      Learn about the , our offerings, our product development, and our brand.
      About Us
      Kollabio is an innovative digital startup that provides digital transformation solutions and services to the Federal Government and commercial organizations. Founded with a vision of becoming a new breed of consulting partner, we offer full-stack digital expertise, products, and solutions to help traditional organizations re-invent business models, reimagine customer experiences, optimize business operations and deliver technology initiatives faster through digital. Our solutions include Digital Strategy, Experience Design, Cloud, Agile, DevOps, and Intelligent Automation.
      Kollabio, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and as such does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee based on race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
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