Montvale, NJ based company is seeking a UX Designer to join their Ignition Tax Product, software engineering group responsible for building tools that enable teams of global accountants to perform complex tax and financial services for some of the worlds largest companies for a hybrid, contract role.
Contract Duration: 5 - 6 Months
Required Skills & Experience - Minimum of 5 years of experience in crafting intuitive, engaging, and visually captivating websites or applications that prioritize user ease
- Possesses robust interpersonal skills with a knack for articulating design direction and vision effectively
- Exhibits a profound understanding of accessibility best practices, ensuring inclusivity in design
- Highly adept at using Figma, FigJam, Mural, Miro, and Office 365, showcasing technical proficiency
- High-level understanding of backend development languages, bridging the gap between design and development
What You Will Be Doing - Champion User Experience Design and User Interface Design for designated projects, ensuring a seamless user journey
- Advocate for User Experience/User Interface design, effectively communicating the vision to project teams
- Lead stakeholder/user interviews to delve into business issues and requirements, facilitating whiteboarding sessions to stimulate creative brainstorming
- Execute user interviews, craft personas, journey maps, site maps and information architecture diagrams to provide a comprehensive understanding of user behavior
- Develop user flows, task analysis matrices, wireframes, high-resolution mockups, and prototypes to vividly illustrate product vision
- Manage design feedback sessions and user testing to ensure the product meets user expectations and needs
- Strictly adhere to Tax Design System standards, applying them appropriately to mockups for consistency and coherence
- Collaborate closely with UI Developer to ensure the product build is accurate, user-friendly, accessible, and aligns with the initial vision
- Seek to integrate AI into the UX/UI workflow
