UX Designer

About Wickr

Wickr is securing the way the world communicates. Our mission is to help organizations and individuals around the world ensure the privacy of their intellectual property and communications, regardless of the data format. We build state-of-the-art cyber security technology and tools to safeguard the integrity and security of personal and business data in transit and at rest with greater efficacy than any other solution on the market.

 Do you get excited about building great products with the latest technologies? Are you passionate about great software, and enjoy the details and the long-term outlook of technology strategy?  Do you thrive in an Agile development environment? Are you a self-motivated team player, who embraces challenges? If so, Wickr is looking for a UX Designer to enhance Wickr’s product offerings by helping augment and optimize our cutting-edge platform technology.

Job Description

We are looking for a User-Experience (UX) Designer able to understand our business needs and technical requirements. In addition, the UX Designer will be responsible for conceiving and conducting user research; interviews and surveys and translating them into sitemaps; user flows; customer journey maps; wireframes; mockups and prototypes. The UX Designer is expected to design the overall functionality of the product and ensure a great user experience. The UX Designer will work closely with product and development teams to ensure designs meet product requirements and any technical limitations.

Requirements

• Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products.
• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Ask smart questions, take risks and champion new ideas.

Preferred Qualifications

• Three or more years of UX design experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments.
• Expertise in standard UX software such as Zeplin, Sketch, OmniGraffle, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq, Framer, and the like is a must. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.
• Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
• A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.
• Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model, to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
• Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design.
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
• Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies.

Benefits

• Stock options
• Competitive salary
• 401(k) plan
• Commuter benefits
• Vacation days & time off
• Medical, dental & vision insurance
• Life & disability coverage