Senior User Experience Designer at Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure in MADISON, Alabama

Job Description:

Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure


Position Title: Senior User Experience Designer


Req_ID: 5001110724206


Location: Madison, Alabama, United States



Description: Job Description

The Hexagon Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial User Experience team supports our customers in making the world a safer place. If you enjoy working with distributed, multi-disciplinary teams to design and develop innovative solutions that support users solving challenging problems in real time, you have come to the right place. The UX team works directly with customers in the public safety, safe/smart cities, and security industries. Because our customers are the first responders in times of emergency, designing and developing tools that help them succeed is exciting and meaningful work.

The UX team includes visual and interaction designers, user researchers, UX Quality Assurance (QA), and UX Editor working across many product portfolios within our division. We are looking for talented professionals to plan and execute complex assignments in the development of global products and solutions, with an emphasis on application usability by a large number of office and mobile users.

The ideal candidate will support the larger team by performing the following UX design tasks:

• Support design of user experience for software products from conception to delivery
• Collaborate with designers, user researchers, software developers, Product Management, and Marketing to ensure the delivery of excellent user experiences
• Support the UX team in the creation of wireframes and higher fidelity UI designs
• Leverage existing design system component library to build high fidelity UI designs
• Adhere to styling guidelines set by Design Operations team
• Contribute new components to the team's design system, as needed
• Ability to break down workflows into task flows
• Research and evaluate emerging trends in interaction and interface design and match those to users' needs
• Ensure that design guidelines are maintained and shared with appropriate stakeholders to guide product design and development
• Support conducting contextual inquiry to gain an understanding of user environments, scenarios, workflows, and tasks
• Collaborate with the user research team to organize, conduct, and evaluate prototype software design through usability testing
• Support the UX team in the development of user models, including journey maps and workflow analysis documents

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in UI/UX design of web-based and/or mobile software applications
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and ability to work effectively with customers, users, and other product team members
• Ability to lead design discussions with stakeholders and other development team members
• Enthusiasm for an agile, iterative design process, driven by customer needs and requests
• Ability to collaborate with distributed team members to create and communicate content strategy
• Working knowledge of user artifact creation (i.e., personas, journey maps)
• Ability to create low and high fidelity UI designs , with a focus on user-centered workflow design
• Ability to design across devices and systems, including desktop, web-based, and mobile applications
• Ability to travel to customers sites (10-25%) to engage with users through ride-alongs, interviews, and usability tests
• Ability to perform tasks that require moderate physical activity such as: walking 2 miles, standing for extended periods of time, lifting and carrying 25lbs (for example, a backpack containing a laptop and other user testing equipment)
• Required: Proficient in Figma
• Preferred: Experience collaborating with a User Experience team of designers and researchers
• Preferred: Experience leveraging design patterns and components from design systems, libraries, or style guides
• Preferred: Ability to prototype in Axure RP, Figma, Sketch, or other tools

Education:

Required: 4-year degree (BS or BA) in Interaction Design, HCI, or design-related field


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