UI/UX Consultant

OTSI (Object Technology Solutions, Inc) has an immediate opening for SW Engineer, UX/UI Specialist at Fort Collins, CO and it’s a Long Term Contract position.

Job Description:

You are an experienced UX professional who seeks ways of succeeding and getting things done. The ideal candidate will welcome challenges and the opportunity to make significant contributions to making software better. You are a self-starter, an optimistic leader and genuinely enjoy getting stuff done.

As the UX lead for a fast-paced agile 1team, you will distill complex software systems and interactions into clearly defined user journeys. You design, implement, and continuously improve user experiences around the team's software products. You thrive when working at the intersection of design and engineering, understanding and translating between both disciplines. You employ processes, thoughtful and proven analytical techniques in concert with experience and intuition to establish clarity, identify customer pain points and potential solutions. You work iteratively, scientifically and use data to drive decisions, and at the same time identify problems via qualitative and experiential means.

As the ideal candidate, you are genuinely excited by learning about and discussing technology and design - and are not daunted by technically complex products. You are energized by working with a highly skilled and fast-paced team. You bring a friendly and helpful personality. You are empathetic, a great listener, and are highly aware of your biases and can calibrate your guidance accordingly. You easily transition between conversations with designers, engineers, stakeholders, and customers. You are versed in formal UX testing and design practices, as well as highly skilled in how and when to apply them to different situations.

In this role you will craft, lead, share, and support user experience efforts across the team, our products and at any point at which a customer interacts with our tools. You not only design the product experience, but help encourage a human-centered, design-first approach for the team. Lastly and very importantly, you have experience in working with an established set of guidelines and best practices provided by a central UX organization, while applying the same to the specific contexts in which you will design.

Responsibilities

Learn about our users, our technologies including hardware and software systems, organization, how we sell, and the context of how your experiences will be integrated by the team and consumed throughout the organization.

Collaborate with teammates, engineering, project stakeholders, and external customers to inform your designs.

Craft the story of your ideas and concepts into a message that others can rally behind. Use all means possible to concisely and effectively produce influential deliverables.

Rapidly whiteboard, wireframe, mockup, and prototype your ideas—and iterate often.

Communicate, present, negotiate and refine your messages to the people you work with to promote and gather insight for your designs.

Deliver and understand how to take your design to code and how it translates in the hands of users.

Knowledge and Skills

· Internal drive towards developing simple, clean, elegant user experiences.

· Demonstrated ability to collaborate with development teams to understand the problem domain and design solutions that meet user needs and bring concepts to life is required

· Champion human-centered design and user-research methodologies.

· Demonstrate a history of leading web/software application experiences.

· Expert level skills with standard design tools such as: Sketch, Adobe XD, Marvel, Invision, Principle, Framer.js, Flinto, After Effects, Origami, and ability to push some pixels and work with vectors.

· Experience with react.js based UI/UX toolkits is a plus.

· Having a technical understanding of virtualization technologies, cloud technologies, sales automation and system administration tools is a plus.

· Familiarity with formal user-driven design processes, including qualitative to quantitative methods, is required

Education and Experience

· Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, UX Design, UX Research, Interaction Design, Fine Arts or equivalent.

· 3-5 years’ experience.

Other Desired Skills and Experience

· Experience with SPA applications is a definite plus

· Skilled at establishing and maintaining responsive design within a relatively large web application is strongly desired

· Experience designing for web applications which leverage media-dependent layout strategies (e.g. media queries) is highly desired

· Experience designing user experiences of critical customer-facing products is required

· Experience with UX tools such as user interviews, personas, card sorting, and user testing is highly desired

· Ability to communicate designs via sketches and prototypes, or other low-fidelity methods is required

· Familiarity with or desire and ability to learn GTK conventions and GNOME Human Interface Guidelines is desired

· Experience following and working within brand and human interface guidelines is highly desired

· Ability to collect and synthesize data from user interviews, surveys, etc. is strongly desired

· Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment in teams of less than 10 people would be ideal

· Familiarity with or desire and ability to learn collaborative design and development processes with git and GitHub.

About us:

OTSI is a leading global technology company offering solutions, consulting, and managed services for businesses worldwide since 1999. OTSI serves clients from its 15 offices across 6 countries around the globe with a “Follow-the-Sun” model. Headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, we have a strong presence in North America, Central America, and Asia-Pacific with a Global Delivery Center based in India. These strategic locations offer our customers the competitive advantages of onshore, nearshore, and offshore engagement and delivery options, with 24/7 support. OTSI works with 100 enterprise customers, of which many are Fortune ranked, OTSI focuses on industry segments such as Banking, Financial Services & Insurance, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Energy & Utilities, Communications & Media Entertainment, Engineering & Telecom, Retail & Consumer Services, Hi-tech, Manufacturing, Engineering, transport logistics, Government, Defense & PSUs.

Our Center of Excellence:

· Data & Analytics

· Digital Transformation

· QA & Automation

· Enterprise Applications

· Disruptive Technologies

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $40.00 - $44.00 per hour

Experience level:

• 3 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• UX/UI: 4 years (Preferred)
• Sketch, Adobe XD, Marvel, Invision: 4 years (Preferred)
• Framer.js, Flinto, After Effects, Origami: 4 years (Preferred)
• Agile Scrum environment: 4 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $40 - $44