Job Description

Are you a talented UX Designer passionate about creating amazing user experiences? Do you yearn to make a difference and advance the way people interactively interface with an organization’s brand, product or service? Do you seek out unique challenges where you can push limits and pioneer new techniques that help provide visual solutions to complex problems?

If you answered yes to all of the above, we understand what makes you tick because we’re just like you. We’re blueriver. We’re a team of strategist, designers, engineers—all visionaries working together to create and develop experiences and solutions for some of the largest, high profile brands in the world.

Working as a design on our UX team, you’ll be in a fast paced, collaborative environment helping to deliver interactive solutions for desktop and mobile platforms. There’s never a boring day at blueriver because no two clients are alike and no two projects are ever the same. It’s always exciting, but when you love what you do and who you’re doing it with, work is interchangeable with play. That’s exactly the way we like it.

If blueriver sounds like the ideal place for you to work and thrive, please read on.Perhaps you are our next UX Designer…

SUMMARY

The UX Designer creates innovative, functional, and artful user experiences to advance customers’ brands, products, and services. Using current trends, tools, and techniques, the Designer delivers enterprise level interactive solutions for desktop and mobile platforms. By understanding user needs, the Designer successfully translates and architects high-level requirements into interaction flows and artifacts. The UX Designer uses creative ideas and innovative thought to design beautiful, intuitive, and functional interfaces for end-users.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• The essential duties and responsibilities for the position include the items listed below.
• Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.
• Collaborate with designers, product management, and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
• Execute all visual design stages from initial concept to final hand-off to engineering
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
• Create wireframes, storyboards, user journeys, process flows and sitemaps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas that are on message with project goals requirements
• Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders
• Conduct user research and evaluate and analyze user feedback and data
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

None.

COMPETENCY

• To perform the job successfully, an individual will need to demonstrate the
• following competencies:
• Creates clean, beautiful, artful and functional design interfaces
• Presents designs and influences key stakeholders
• Works collaboratively in a team environment
• Strives to continuously build skills
• Embraces and champions cutting-edge tools and techniques in the industry
• Develops effective solutions using creative problem-solving
• Displays innovative thought in work-product
• Thinks visually and judicously makes prudent decsions
• Keeps commitments and inspires trust with others
• Maintains focus on work and attention to detail
• Treats others with respect
• Works ethically with integrity

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: Five or more years’ user interface experience including prior agency experience. Demonstrated UX/UI design skills including a strong portfolio. Equivalent education and experience may be considered.
• TECHNICAL SKILLS: Experience creating wireframes, storyboards, user journeys, process flows, and site maps. Proficiency in Sketch, InVision, or other visual design and wire-framing tools. Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction. Demonstrated knowledge of current UI trends, techniques, and technologies.
• LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read, write and speak English language effectively. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from co-workers, clients and the general public.
• PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Work must be completed at a computer workstation for long periods of time. The position frequently requires working at a fast pace. The employee must be able to communicate orally and electronically with others. The employee must be able to use hands to finger, handle or feel. The employee must be able to see, talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, bend and reach with hands and arms. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

PREFERRED BUT NOT REQUIRED

4 year Bachelors Degree (B.S., B.A., B.F.A) or other certification in Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or other related field.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work is completed in a typical office environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderately quiet.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

Employee reports to the Director of User Experience. Position is classified as Non-Exempt under FLSA and California law. The employee is expected to adhere to all Company policies.

PERKS

• A MacBook Pro loaded up with software
• Regular 1:1’s and goal-setting with leadership
• Paid time off
• 401(k) matching
• Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
• Discretionary flexible work options (after probationary period)
• Quarterly team events

Company Description

We’re blueriver, a digital innovation firm that focuses on improvement and disruption of the status quo. We design, develop and support digital products for some of the largest, high profile brands in the world. We are located in Sacramento, California. Nestled between the Bay Area and Lake Tahoe, Sacramento is a rapidly growing city known for its food, music and recreational amenities. Sacramento provides all the benefits of city life with quick access to weekend getaways and outdoor adventures. All of this comes at a cost of living that you can actually live with.