UX Designer

Seeking a UX Designerto create designs, concepts and sample layouts based on design principles and concepts. Looking for someone with a high level of creativity and able to communicate their ideas to both internal and external clients!

OUR CLIENT:A global leader in marine recreation, delivering innovation that transforms experiences on the water and beyond. A dedicated to industry leadership, to being the best and most trusted partner to our many customers, and to building synergies and ecosystems that enable us to challenge convention and define the future. The home to more than 60 industry-leading brands. In the category of Marine Propulsion, these brands include Mercury Marine, Mercury Racing and MerCruiser.

JOB TITLE: UX Designer

LOCATION: Hybrid Mettawa, Illinois preferred. Open to remote

ROLE TYPE/DURATION: Contract 6 months

COMPENSATION:$40-45/hr W2 (commensurate with experience)

JOB SUMMARY: Looking for a UX Designer to beresponsible for the design of consumer centric interactive digital products to support on- and off-boat user experiences. This designer will approach all projects with curiosity and empathy; applying their deep understanding of user needs to the design of new experiences (represented via information architecture, user flows, wireframes, prototypes and visual design comps) and collaborate closely with Product Managers, UX Researchers and Developers to bring these concepts to life in the final product.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Help drive guidelines, best practices and methodologies across the entire cross-functional team
• Partner with product, brand, marketing and creative teams to adhere to each brand's creative vision
• Grow the Figma based design system and component libraries with focus on re-usable components across the organization
• Be an advocate for human centered design thinking principles and promote the value of user research techniques and analysis.
• Align user needs and desires with business goals and objective
• Create various fidelities of interactive prototypes for rapid and iterative testing coupled with deeper qualitative studies
• Create inspiring, visual, story-based research summaries that communicate key findings to team members and stakeholders, leveraging audio and video as narrative devices
• Provide short-and longer-term actionable outcomes following usability testing
• Collaborate with UX researchers to derive new concepts from key insights

WHAT'S REQUIRED TO APPLY:

• 5 years' experience applying human-centered design and design thinking methodologies throughout digital product development
• Domain specific expertise and perspective for user experience design solutions
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills.
• Proven track record of solving complex problems with simple solutions
• Strong portfolio with data driven insights
• Ability to defend ideas and concepts from gathering rich consumer insights
• Confident presentation and storytelling abilities
• Proficiency with a range of prototyping and experience design tools
• Experience in growing design systems and libraries
• Familiarity with design thinking methodologies
• Undergraduate or graduate degree in a related field such as, Human Centered Design, Design Research, UX Design, Product Design or equivalent work experience
• Familiarity with remote moderated and un-moderated user testing techniques

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience in mobile App UX research; and related research tools / platforms
• Experience in the Marine, RV or Automotive Industry
• Proficient in either Figma, XD or Sketch

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Must Have

• Figma
• Rapid Prototyping
• User Experience
• User Experience Design
• UX Design > UX Design Art
• Wireframes

• Mobile Applications

NEXT STEPS:We will reach out to qualified candidates for this position, but may not be able to get back to everyone based on volume. That said, we will keep you in mind for other relevant positions, as well!

WunderLand Group is the destination for digital, marketing, and creative talent.We deliver on our promise to provide companies with in-demand, highly-qualified talent for contract and full-time positions. WunderLand Group invests time to understand our clients' business and resource challenges and connects them with exceptional talent in today's fast-paced digital, marketing, and creative landscape.

The industry has verified WunderLand Group's reputation for loyalty and quality through numerous awards and recognitions, most recently the Best of Staffing Client Award and Talent Award.

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