Seeking a UI/UX Designer to join our group for a direct-hire opportunity.  the focus of this position will be the primary starting point for our Innovation initiatives and the ultimate measure of our success. The UI/UX Designer is responsible for the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI). The UI/UX Designer will visualize how people experience our products and services by bringing new experiences.

The UX/UI Designer role, you will take on complex tasks and transform them into intuitive, accessible and easy-to-use designs from the novice user to the sophisticated expert.  Achieving these goals require collaboration in cross-functional teams of business stakeholders, customers, product managers, and full stack software engineers in order to create user flows, wireframes, building user interface mockups and prototypes. At each phase of the Innovation process, the UI/UX Designer will understand what users need, advocate for them to ensure that the final product meets or exceeds expectations.

The UI/UX Designer role will ensure products move rapidly through the Innovation process by applying modern methodologies and principles including Design Thinking, Business Model Canvas, Agile and Lean Startup. Working cross-functionally to guide products from ideation to launch by connecting the business and technical worlds.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Requirements Elicitation - Ability to identify a desired future state that addresses a business problem.

·        Effectively use interviewing skills to elicit, identify, and document business requirements

·        Precisely and consistently captures business problem

·        Prioritize requirements to identify the most critical needs

·        Uncover needs and value drivers that business partners and end users would not be able to articulate on their own

·        Articulate and incorporate extensive business knowledge into requirements

·        Obtain agreement and confirm understanding by clearly interpreting business requirements to business stakeholder

Requirements Management and Analysis - Ability to define, document and manage business requirements to the smallest set that will provide the biggest impact in advancing business objectives.

·        Accurately translate business requirements into functionality

·        Manage and Prioritize business requirements based on business needs

·        Understand business process complexity

·        Assess the risk of various solutions looking across multiple applications

·        Document and contribute to the "to be" business process state considering multiple factors

Creating Compelling Business Case - Ability to measure and communicate proposed project benefits.

·        Clearly articulate the impact of business problems and benefits using business language

·        Understand the organization’s economic and revenue drivers

·        Understand industry-specific trends that impact the organization·        Quickly adapt to changes in business strategy·        Help business partners communicate solution value to key stakeholders

Providing Accurate Project Effort Estimates - Ability to quantify and meet individual and project phase level efforts.

·        Adhere to RTS project methodology throughout project lifecycle

·        Effectively engage stakeholders in the project estimation process

·        Manage ambiguity and create accurate project effort estimates for their assigned tasks

·        Understand, consider and communicate interdependencies for project estimates

Design for Usability - Ability to translate business requirements into business solutions for end-user adoption and productivity improvement.

·        Incorporate usability and User Interface (UI) efficiencies into business solutions

·        Understand the business data needs as it relates to a potential solution

·        Effectively convey the business preferences and functional design to the technical teams

·        Ensure end-to-end service performance from the end user’s perspective

·        Incorporate knowledge of UI best practices in functional desing

Functional Design - Ability to translate business requirements to functional designs using analysis and design techniques.

·        Understand functional design specifications

·        Provide the link between the business and technical views of the system

·        Listen to and understand technological constraints

·        Clarify the business rationale of a solution concept

·        Create functional design specifications for low to high complexity solutions

·        Map business requirements to functional specifications ensuring traceability

·        Anticipate weaknesses in the design solution to ensure risk is mitigated

·        Understand technical design specifications and ensure that the technical solution(s) developed will satisfy the needs of the business

·        Capitalize on reusability while minimizing rework by incorporating prior resolved solutions

·        Consider solution interdependencies in functional design

·        Consider third party application features and upgrades prior to designing in-house solution

·        Develop solutions for system needs that business partners would not be able to articulate on their own

Adherence to Standards - Ability to create solutions that adhere to and incorporate RTS standards.

·        Apply and use information and technology standards in design of solution

·        Obtain key inputs from Enterprise Architecture groups to ensure compliance and exception management

·         Adhere to project management methodology

·         Identify commonalities and suggest a consistent approach across project

Business Relationship Management - Ability to engage business sponsors and contribute to their targeted business outcomes.

·        Proactively resolve customer satisfaction issues.

·        Clearly articulate the role of technology in terms easily understood by business constituencies

·        Help align customer expectations for project delivery (e.g. scope, schedule, budget, and outcome)

·        Effectively navigate the conflict between multiple business partners

·        Adjust engagement to match customer preferences