Mutual Mobile is a world leading agency in mobile and emerging technology innovation and we are looking for an accomplished and capable Interaction Designer to join our team!
We have built our success through timely bets on emerging technology and rapid execution of targeted marketing campaigns and skills development. This approach has resulted in a list of premier clients that come to us to build innovative experiences using emerging technology (Nike, Google, GM, Nestle, UnderArmour). We’ve seen this happen with iOS, Android, Wearables and IoT. We continue to evolve - it’s in our DNA - we stay on the forefront of innovation. Now, in 2019, we stand at the foot of a massive transition in emerging technology with the growth of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Voice, Bots, and more. We are ready to embrace these changes and to help our clients make the most of the opportunities they bring.
Primary Responsibilities:
Concepting
Contributes to the creation of Mobile UX concepts through participation in brainstorms and other idea-generating sessions.
Has a practical understanding of client’s business objectives, brand, and consumer to inform strong user experience ideas.
Articulates interaction concepts and designs internally to team.
Helps establish interaction models
Design
Leverages a practical understanding of technologies, user interface and interaction design fundamentals and techniques in generating UX design solutions
Expands personal knowledge of design and current state-of-the-art techniques and digital best practices, with an emphasis on mobile
Contributes to the UX Brief with the creation of application maps, user flows, wire frames, navigational models, persona's and presentations under specific direction from project’s creative lead.
Prepares interaction concepts and models for direction and approval. Incorporate revisions per client and/or team feedback as appropriate. Ensures designs aligns to interaction models and overall design approach.
Contributes to the creation and maintenance of style guides/online interaction libraries to accompany final deliverables.
Assists project’s creative lead in necessary user, audience and competitive analysis and preparation of client presentation materials.
Collaboration
Works enthusiastically, respectfully and collaboratively with other project team members, has a basic understanding of how a project team operates
Works with user research, visual design, technology, and PMO to ensure the design meets design, strategy and project objectives.
Has a basic understanding of technology requirements and how to design solutions that complement the technical strategy and/or partner with the technology staff to overcome implementation obstacles.
Project Execution
Frequently communicates with supervisor or project’s creative lead to evaluate individual project needs and raises issues that may impact quality or timing of deliverables and offer solutions
Participates in team meetings to discuss assignment parameters.
Ensures that internal deadlines, timetables and approval procedures are adhered to for assigned project phases
Manages and prioritizes work effectively, but may require assistance in doing so
Organizes file management per prescribed process and maintain image resource files.
Community & Business
Responsible for giving continuous feedback to peers, completing self-review, inputting time consistently, and being aware of personal utilization target
Participates in community-building events.
Contributes to the development of the creative team’s culture and quality standards in pursuit of elevating the creative product.
Serves as a mentor to employee(s) on projects
Client Relationships
May contributes ideas in client meetings
Contributes to client requested POV’s.
Experience:
Strong interaction design portfolio with examples of mobile and touch work
Internship to 1 year design experience preferably in a digital or mobile agency
Solid command of standard interaction design and presentation applications (i.e. Illustrator, OmniGraffle, Axure, Visio, InDesign, Keynote, etc...)
Basic awareness of the digital landscape with an emphasis on mobile; including transactional/commerce, core product, social media, customer self-service, marketing, and machine-to-mobile experiences.
Basic awareness of multiple delivery methodologies with an emphasis on agile
Ability to work efficiently under pressure in a deadline-driven environment.
Ability to utilize feedback/direction from creative lead to generate functional interaction design explorations and iterate those designs to the satisfaction of the creative lead
Creative problem solving skills that enable you to evaluate a design approach, brainstorm, and seek unexpected, original and innovative ideas.
Attention to detail and awareness of version control issues.
Solid knowledge of the production process (asset creation, specification creation, and handoff to development)
Basic understanding of technical and cross-platform implications (strengths and limitations of individual native, hybrid and HTML platforms).
Good communication skills. Able to discuss your interaction design process, thoughts, and ideas, and develop a point of view about your work.
Good interpersonal skills, a positive attitude, and the ability to thrive in a collaborative environment with multi-disciplinary teams.
Self-motivation – you like to figure out how to get the work done and do whatever it takes
Why work for Mutual Mobile? We make great products. We craft meaningful mobile interfaces and solve complex software challenges. Clients such as HEB, Google, lynda.com, Citi, Nike, and Under Armour come to us for our deep experience in mobile and emerging technology — from establishing a mobile strategy that provides impactful business value, to building those solutions from the ground up. We bring together the brightest minds in interactive & visual design, engineering, and business management to deliver solutions that actually matter.
You’ll love working here, because this isn’t a company of silos. Team members are empowered and encouraged to pursue cool ideas, think for themselves, and make mistakes. If your passion extends beyond the role, we’ll invite your views and assistance with improving our culture, systems and processes. We know you’re smart, and that you love learning new technologies--so you’ll be able to work on a variety of projects with many different types of people.