Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optimity Advisors is a specialized management consulting and advisory firm that focuses on strategy, operations and IT. They are seeking a Lead Digital Product Designer to create and execute design solutions that meet client business goals, while collaborating with various teams to enhance user experience for digital products.
Responsibilities
- Serving in lead capacity on large, complex projects, create user experiences and visual design strategies and solutions for projects based on business objectives and user research
- Serve as subject matter expert in the defined UX and brand standards and the execution of visual, interaction, and motion design
- Facilitate internal team communication, bridging the gap between visual design, functional development, and content
- Communicate the value of UX, UI, and design thinking to clients
- Lead client engagements from a UX perspective
- Lead participatory design activities, e.g., client workshops, card sorting, to understand vision, business model, and user needs and behaviors
- Serve as the voice of the user while meeting the needs of the client
- Combine UX thinking with design execution to produce usable and intuitive user interfaces
- Illustrate user experience using storyboards, information architecture, process flows, user journeys/personas, and sitemaps
- Use design to communicate complex concepts, whether through conversations, frameworks, or ideas
- Derive actionable insights by leading user research activities and translating insights into prototypes
- Provide coaching and guidance to other product designers on the team to elevate our approach to user experience research and design and promote the craft of UX across the organization
- Collaborate with architects, developers, and project teams to ensure design elements are incorporated into development sprints
- Proactively perform competitive research based on product roadmaps
- Plan and facilitate interactive workshops to build consensus around business requirements and design ideas
- Lead the design team in best practices, design trends, and leading technologies
- Support the development and adoption of design processes, tools, and culture
- Develop, refine, and adhere to design systems and style guides
- Understand and incorporate Design Thinking, Agile Methodologies, Lean Principles and Collective Intelligence into project strategy
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Web Design, Visual or Interaction Design, or related discipline with a solid foundation in the principles of design
- 8+ years of experience in a Product Design, Digital Design, or UX/UI Design related role
- Display a strong portfolio which demonstrates work across a range of clients
- Authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis
- Experience with user research, usability testing, and generating test reports
- Experience in the planning and facilitation of Design Thinking workshops
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
- Experience with designing and implementing web accessibility for web and mobile
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