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UX Designer

Burning Glass Technologies

UX Designer

Boston, MA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    ABOUT US

    Burning Glass Technologies (BGT) is a leading labor market analytics provider serving a client base spanning the globe, including education institutions, government workforce agencies, academic research centers, global recruitment and staffing agencies, major employers, and leading job boards.

    ABOUT THE ROLE

    BGT is looking for an experienced UX Designer to work within our UI/UX team. The UI/UX team is responsible for the design of our market-leading SaaS applications, and is currently leading an exciting and fast-paced transition to re-design our existing product offering into a single product suite, while adding creating new products in both existing and new markets.

    The successful candidate will primarily be responsible for designing a new range of products targeting the HCM (Human Capital Management) market and will work closely with the product manager (PM) to bring these new products from inception to market. As such, any knowledge of user personas in the HCM market would be desirable.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    • Work with the product manager in the initial product ideation phase
    • Interview target HCM personas to solicit their wants and needs and validate product ideas
    • Rapidly iterate over low fidelity designs/wireframes
    • Conduct moderated and unmoderated user testing every step of the way, identifying where concepts and designs resonate with users and validating product and design decisions
    • Work closely with both in-house and external UI designers to bring low fidelity wireframes to life in high fidelity, working within the guard rails of an established design system

    REQUIREMENTS

    • Bachelor's degree with three or more years of professional UX experience in a SaaS environment
    • Experience conducting user interviews, and both moderated and unmoderated user testing, ideally using platforms such as UserTesting, UserZoom, Validately etc
    • Ability to clearly and confidently communicate with our users and solicit their ideas and feedback
    • Experience working within a global team (geographically distributed team working in different time zones)
    • Ability to clearly articulate product designs and concepts to all stakeholders, including the broader product team and software engineers
    • Highly organized, structured work habits
    • Highly motivated and able to passionately manage varying priorities in a fast-paced environment
    • Advanced knowledge of design tooling such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Abstract and Invision
    • Excellent verbal and written communication

    NICE TO HAVES

    • Previous experience of designing complex, data-intensive SaaS applications
    • Experience of working within atomic design systems
    • Experience of using analytics tooling to identify problem areas in SaaS applications
    • Experience working on B2B applications for Human Resources professionals or similar audiences