Merkle is hiringSenior UX/UI Designer

As a Senior UX Designer, your main role is to define user-centered experiences in collaboration with stakeholders, product owners, researchers, strategists, analysts, developers, and fellow designers.

Some of your responsibilities:

• Scope and oversee UX projects, from beginning to end
• Collaborate with stakeholders, subject matter experts, product owners, researchers, and analysts to discover user insights
• Conduct user research (qualitative & quantitative)
• Produce workflows, user scenarios, user stories, and digital personas
• Help prioritize features based on user insights
• Understand and evangelize usability guidelines and design patterns
• Create wireframes and interactive prototypes
• Collaborate with design teams to share strategy and validate high-fidelity designs
• Design and conduct concept testing and usability testing
• Guide and be a resource for information architecture decisions
• Willing to travel a minimum of 1 business week a month (up to 2/month) to be onsite with client(s)

Skills and experience you’ll need to be successful:

• 4+ years’ experience in website and application design, with a minimum of 3 years focusing on user experience design
• A diverse portfolio that illustrates understanding of different frameworks and platforms; Preferred experience of designing native applications (Android, iOS), progressive web apps, and adaptive web apps
• UI skillset: Designing for large web, small web, tablet, and mobile devices
• Tool skillset:
  • Sketch or equivalent, expert level
  • Invision Studio or equivalent, expert level
  • Zeplin, expert level
• Interaction skillset: Designing for both click and touch
• Research skillset: intermediate or higher
• Redline handoff to development team skillset: intermediate or higher
• Process skillset: scrum minimum; mature and scaled agile preferred
• Excellent organizational, time management, communication, and presentation skills
• A desire and ability to collaborate with people who have differing skills and perspectives
• Ability to identify and suspend bias in place of user insight and business objectives
• Ability to manage involvement in projects from other team members, including researchers, designers, information architects, and developers
• Ability to translate concepts into wireframes and prototypes that demonstrate intuitive user experiences.
• Expert knowledge in responsive web design best practices
• Familiarity with design patterns and standards in native and web apps
• Experience building and rapidly iterating on interactive prototypes

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.