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User Experience Designer (UI/UX Frontend)

Donnelly and Moore

User Experience Designer (UI/UX Frontend)

New York, NY
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

    • Responsible for implementing both visual and interactive elements that users engage with when using a web application
    • Role includes the translation of UI/UX design wireframes to actual code that will produce visual elements of the web application
    • Collaborate with the UI/UX team and bridge the gap between graphic design and technical implementation, taking an active role on both sides and defining how the application looks as well as how it works
    • Validate all user input before submitting to back-end
    • Ensure the UI/UX designs are technically feasible
    • Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
    • Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image. FAMILIARITY WITH TOOLS SUCH AS AS GIMP OR PHOTOSHOP IS A PLUS
    • Work in a collaborative environment, interfacing and developing relationships with groups from all areas of Company business team members, IT supporting teams, as well as vendor/contractor team members - in order to deliver solutions that benefit Company requirements analyses and deliver solutions that benefit Company overall
    • Follow health, safety, and environmental policies, EEO, Standards of Business Conduct, and all other applicable company policy and procedures
    • Share a responsibility to advance the company's mission by excelling at our three corporate priorities safety of our people and the public, operational excellence in all that we do, and ensuring the best possible customer experience
  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS:

    • Proficient understanding of JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORKS AND LIBRARIES (e.g. jQuery, Angular 2+, React/Redux, Vue)
    • Experience developing user interfaces leveraging HTML5 AND CSS3 elements
    • Familiarity with CSS PRE-PROCESSORS (e.g. LESS, SASS) and style libraries (Bootstrap 3/4)
    • Experience with MODERN BUILD TOOLS (E.G. WEBPACK, GULP, GRUNT)
    • Experience CONVERTING PROTOTYPES FROM DESIGN TOOLS (E.G. PHOTOSHOP, SKETCH, INVISION) TO FUNCTIONAL, PERFORMANT CODE
    • Fluent in WRITING COMPREHENSIVE TEST SUITES (e.g. unit, snapshot, integration, end-to-end)
    • Inspired by combining the art of design with the art of programming
    • Ability to synthesize customer requirements, collaborate with designers and navigate the ever more complex CSS standards to produce elegant, responsive and functional user interfaces
    • Develop user interfaces that reflect both the clients requirements and the design teams intent
    • Demonstrates the value in taking an iterative and agile approach
    • Able and willing to travel within Company service territory, as needed
    • Able to participate in the Company's emergency management processes and storm plans as required

    Additional Information

    EDUCATION:

    • Bachelor's degree with 2+ years professional experience or high school diploma / GED with 5+ year work experience
    • Degree specialization in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or related focus is a plus