Manifest Solutions is currently seeking a Senior User Experience Designer for a position in Dublin, OH.

• Work collaboratively with product managers, software engineers, information developers and the cross-functional team from initial strategy and concepting through definition to create, execute and deployment of interface designs, flows, specifications, and user research including usability studies.
  • Identify and action on opportunities for interface consistency, interaction evolution and seamlessness across product user journeys. Apply enterprise design system best practices and design consistently.
  • Define how features align to user journeys and product capabilities. Consider the holistic experience and approach across products and domains.
  • Facilitate cross-functional ideation and alignment sessions.
  • Drive clarity and alignment in ambiguous situations.
• Interpret user needs and goals into application design and drive changes for usability improvements based on user feedback.
  • Work with research teams through research methodologies and data gathering, design thinking activities, heuristic and competitive reviews, developing personas and user journeys as well as usability testing and analysis.
• Present findings and deliverables to a variety of stakeholders, from business owners to team members.
• Create, maintain, iterate and update documentation including UX wireframes based on use cases and business requirements.
• Document UI specifications for visual designs and collaborate with development staff to ensure implementation of visual and interaction designs.
  • Work closely with UI Designers to create mock-ups and low-fidelity prototypes that can be rapidly and/or systematically evaluated.
  • Work closely with engineers/developers and QA testers to ensure that the product is developed according to experience and design specifications.
• Provide innovative design vision with a strong focus on usability and accessibility.
  

Qualifications

• Tirelessly advocate for the user and their needs while also considering business and technical context.
• Strong oral and written communication skills are a to present rationale and deliverables to a variety of stakeholders, from cross-functional team members to member libraries.
  • Comfortable presenting work through narrative, explanation of design strategy, appropriate context and delivery of rationale.
• Love to innovate and apply design trends where appropriate.
• Love to work through user interactions including the design of animations and micro-interactions.
• Exhibit a high degree of ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness and work well with ambiguity and limited direction.
• Able to initiate and drive complex projects to completion.
  
• Knowledge and understanding of accessibility standards, interaction and visual design trends and best practices.
• Working knowledge of front-end web technologies.
• Mastered the user-centered design process, contemporary UX and UI patterns and design philosophies including Atomic Design.
• Familiarity with research methodologies, including contextual inquiry, design thinking activities, heuristic and competitive reviews and usability testing and analysis.
• Portfolio showcasing experience strategy and specification artifacts (i.e. user journey maps, service blueprints, flows and wireframes) that demonstrate complex interaction design.
• Working knowledge of relevant software & tools, collaboration tools, principles and digital product design & development best practices.
• 5+ years of UX industry experience working on complex Web and/or application designs.
• Bachelor's Degree in human-computer interaction, interactive design, graphic design, art or related field.

Please submit qualified resumes to: resume@manifestcorp.com

Applicants only, no third parties or agencies please.

Manifest offers competitive compensation with flexible employment status, comprehensive insurance package, company paid holidays, vacation, and sick time, referral bonuses and a flexible schedule in a family atmosphere.

For over 25 years Manifest Solutions has been providing intelligent and value-added IT solutions for our clients