UI/UX Designer

Position Overview Annalect is looking for a UX/UI Designer to join our UX/UI team. Applicants should have a passion for simplicity while solving complex problems, user-centered design, data concepts, data visualization, and Agile development. You will be working within our UX/UI design team and working alongside our product team to deliver innovative, simple user experience for marketing technology, big data and data visualization.   

As the UX/UI Designer you will be responsible for the overall experience of multiple web applications working across a single platform. The applications are challenging and complex, and you will need to use your UX skills to analyze, synthesize, and realize complex interactions as well your UI skills to present these solutions in a clear, clean, and intuitive manner. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Review & discuss with product to discover both business and user needs. 
• Collaborate with product team on prioritization in overall product roadmap. 
• Design clear flows and interactions for new and existing web-based applications informed and validated by research and data.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mocks to illustrate solutions.
• Present ideas to product owners and stakeholders through whiteboarding, demos, walkthroughs 
• Work with other designers to define and maintain application visual standards and design patterns.
• Work with developers to support the realization of ideas and solutions.
• Work with the QA to validate development and user acceptance criteria. 
• Collaborate with both product and enablement teams to conduct usability testing and improve user experience through iteration.
• Designing, building, testing, and deploying scalable, reusable and maintainable applications that handle large amounts of data.
• Write new components across various applications under the Web-Components standard.
• Perform code reviews and provide leadership and guidance to junior developers.
• Ability to learn and teach new technologies.
  
  

Required Skills

• Must have design portfolio links on resume or application.
• 2-5 years of working experience as a UX/UI Designer.
• Proficiency with Figma (a must!), Sketch, Adobe CC and Axure.
• Strong, effective interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal, and listening)
• Experience working with data visualizations, data concepts, business intelligence and/or ad tech. 
• Experience writing user research scripts, conducting user research and testing, analysing and presenting the results.
• Experience working with development and engineering teams in an agile environment. 
• A proven ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment.

Additional Skills 

• Knowledge of best practices for digital user accessibility 
• Knowledge of CSS, HTML, responsive design, other front-end technologies also a plus 
• Intellectual curiosity and drive; self-starters will thrive in this position. 
• A formal education in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, User Experience, or related field