Job Description
GoAhead Solutions has an immediate need for a UX Design Architect. This would be a Six to Twelve month contract to start out. Candidate must submit a portfolio or samples to be considered for this position. This position will require to work in Eastern Time Zone for meetings from 8am to 6pm EST.
Job description:
We are seeking an innovative and passionate UX Design Architect to join our client's UX Center of Excellence. Visual Designers weave iconography, typography, color, space and texture together to help our users successfully navigate our products. We believe that all of our products should be beautiful and accessible. As a Visual Designer, you’ll delight users with designs that inspire, engage and excite them. You’ll rely on user-centered design principles to produce high-quality visuals—from concept to execution—across many platforms.
Responsibilities:
-Will ensure a universal customer engagement approach
-Directs experience strategy for channel
-Leads customer-centric design, user engagement plan, and conducts user testing
-Hands-on design for a variety of assets including site updates, wireframes, UI assets
-Maintain a consistent brand look and feel between all creative elements and channels
-Structure comps to optimize efficient workflow and production
-Understands templates and can execute to specs and brand guidelines
-Review final work to ensure delivered files are to spec
-Prepare creative assets for HTML development
-Coordinate with the marketing and production teams to ensure all deliverables are on time and map to the creative brief
-Persuasively present creative work and communicate rationale to Management
Required Skills/Experience:
-Must have retail bank business experience
-Must have customer centric experience
-Broad understanding of the overall user experience, how all types of media – online and offline – are executed with understanding of web, mobile and UI design best practices.
-Must possess excellent typography and design skills. A sophisticated eye for design including intelligently executed layouts, refined use of typography and incorporation of an appropriate photographic style.
-An understanding of how to balance multiple ongoing projects, prioritize workflow and deliver projects on time and on budget.
-Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
-5+ years of experience in UX/IA field, or equivalent
-Bachelor’s degree