C ollaborate across disciplines: Work on product teams focused on making great digital products that delight customers and internal users while driving the business.

Serve as the user experience leader for an assigned product team.

Understand and empathize with users: Support and participate in Customer Research activities including interviews, contextual observation and surveys. Use personas and other data to understand user problems, behaviors and goals. Translate user insights into design problems.

Focus on user problems: create journey maps, user flows, service blueprints, UX canvases, wireframes, or other artifacts that identify problems to solve through design

Think broadly through ideation: lead discovery sessions, create sketches and other brainstorming artifacts to demonstrate divergent thinking

Create/Design Prototypes: highly skilled at creating high and low fidelity prototypes - static or interactive - to communicate design decisions and test with users.

Test hypotheses: seek feedback on designs through usability testing, surveys, card sorting, and other evaluative research methods to make sure your ideas work for users

Evaluate designs: review existing solutions to ensure they meet design standards and best practices, and make recommendations for improvements

Focus on business outcomes: understand how design decisions impact the business, and balance user needs with desired business outcomes.

Embraces Agile environment and acts as an advocate for customers and internal users, providing design solutions based in user-centered design, user research, and analytics

Design systems: Apply standards from design systems and/or brand guidelines, and contribute to design systems

Communication: demonstrate excellent written, verbal and visual communication skills. Create detailed artifacts, such as wireframes or storyboards to make sure stakeholders understand the design. Able to explain the rationale for decisions to team members and stakeholders with confidence and incorporate feedback from others.

Persuade others through storytelling.

Provide feedback on others' work.

Travel to local campus sites and to attend company wide meetings as needed

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design efforts for a critical portion of a user's journey by employing advanced design methods and creative problem-solving activities.
• Partner and collaborate with other Product Designers, Product Managers, Technical Leads and multi-disciplinary teams to understand and identify areas of opportunity driven by online data, usability feedback, market and user research and user-centric design principles.
• Champion the user by understanding their goals and behaviors, communicating their needs, and creating solutions to meet those needs while balancing desired business outcomes
• Work on product teams focused on making great digital products that delight customers and internal users while driving the business.
• Support and participate in Customer Research activities including interviews, contextual observation and surveys.

The screening is 4 video questions- should take 15-20 mins

Required Skills : Java
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :Yes
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Architecture/Design
Master Job Title :Other
Branch Code :Cincinnati