KYYBA Inc
UX Designer Senior - Figma (strongly preferred).- Detroit, MI - Onsite -Hybrid
KYYBA Inc, Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48228
UX Designer Senior – Figma (strongly preferred)
Detroit, MI – Onsite – Hybrid
About KYYBA Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI, Kyyba has a global presence delivering high-quality resources and top-notch recruiting services, enabling businesses to effectively respond to organizational changes and technological advances.
At Kyyba, the overall well‑being of our employees and their families is important to us. We are proud of our work culture which embodies our core values of value, passion, excellence, empowerment, and happiness, creating a vibrant and productive atmosphere. We empower employees with the resources, incentives, and flexibility they need to support a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling career by providing many valuable benefits and a balanced compensation structure combined with career development.
Description Will this position be required to work onsite for any reason at any time? Yes
User experience is part strategy, part research, part design. The UX designer works with key stakeholders and conducts research to understand business needs, end‑user insights, and the competitive landscape, to shape the UX direction to achieve business objectives. The UX designer then creates a design based on the direction, collaborating with content writers and UI designers. The overall design should facilitate a user experience that is usable, accessible, and delightful to end‑users using human‑centered design principles and best practices.
Top 3 Required Skills/Experience
Three to five years of experience in conducting discovery and design research to inform UX direction and design.
Participating in design strategy activities that set the experience direction for products.
Communicating human‑centered design principles and best practices solutions via wireframes, prototypes, and other design documents using programs such as Figma (strongly preferred).
Strong design system experience with advanced Figma component design skills (auto layout, component properties, variants, and library management).
Required Skills/Experience
Participates in requirement‑gathering activities to identify business needs, user goals and measures of success.
Visualizes concepts and design through sketches, wireframes and prototypes to validate product concepts with users, team members and stakeholders.
Establishes buy‑in and understanding of larger user experience design vision through presentation of artifacts (from studies to process flows).
Creates and aligns to a design system, building style guides, pattern libraries, and components to codify a product's design language.
Manages component library, version control, and collaboration workflows in Figma.
Designs components optimized for responsiveness, including mobile, tablet, and desktop variations.
Strong understanding of component scalability – design once, use everywhere.
Plans, sets up, and executes remote or in‑person usability studies to identify usability issues and opportunities for improvement.
Develops experience maps to establish the direction of the user experience across customer touchpoints with a product.
Researches current design and technology trends, cognitive psychology, and human‑machine interaction.
Structures, organizes, and labels information so that it is most meaningful to users.
Iterates on designs based on user feedback.
Advocates for human‑centered design through evangelization and relationship‑building.
Preferred Skills/Experience
Strong visual and interaction design skills.
Basic knowledge of programming and working within complex data systems, understanding how coding or data/service limitations can affect the implementation or capabilities of a design.
Experience leading a project and/or team with strong leadership skills.
Education & Certifications
Bachelor's degree in a related field (required).
Master's degree in a related field (preferred).
Extensive experience in the User Experience Design field can be used to substitute education.
Equal Opportunity Employer KYYBA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. KYYBA does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non‑disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. Minorities / Females / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
It is the policy of KYYBA to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact KYYBA at 248-813-9665.
Rewards
401k
Term life
Voluntary life and disability insurance
Optional pre‑paid legal plan
Optional identity theft plan
Optional medical and dependent FSA
Opportunity for advancement
Long‑term assignment with opportunity for hire by client
SELECT AWARDS
An INC 5000 company for 10 years
Corp! Michigan Economic Bright Spots
Crain’s Detroit Business Top Staffing Service Companies in Detroit
TechServe Alliance Excellence Award – IT and Engineering Staffing & Solutions
Best of MichBusiness winner in HR Wizards & Partnerships
Metro Detroit Elite Category: Recruitment, Selection & Orientation for 101 Best & Brightest
101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work for in Michigan
Seniority Level Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type Contract
Job Function Information Technology
Industries Technology, Information and Media
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About KYYBA Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI, Kyyba has a global presence delivering high-quality resources and top-notch recruiting services, enabling businesses to effectively respond to organizational changes and technological advances.
At Kyyba, the overall well‑being of our employees and their families is important to us. We are proud of our work culture which embodies our core values of value, passion, excellence, empowerment, and happiness, creating a vibrant and productive atmosphere. We empower employees with the resources, incentives, and flexibility they need to support a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling career by providing many valuable benefits and a balanced compensation structure combined with career development.
Description Will this position be required to work onsite for any reason at any time? Yes
User experience is part strategy, part research, part design. The UX designer works with key stakeholders and conducts research to understand business needs, end‑user insights, and the competitive landscape, to shape the UX direction to achieve business objectives. The UX designer then creates a design based on the direction, collaborating with content writers and UI designers. The overall design should facilitate a user experience that is usable, accessible, and delightful to end‑users using human‑centered design principles and best practices.
Top 3 Required Skills/Experience
Three to five years of experience in conducting discovery and design research to inform UX direction and design.
Participating in design strategy activities that set the experience direction for products.
Communicating human‑centered design principles and best practices solutions via wireframes, prototypes, and other design documents using programs such as Figma (strongly preferred).
Strong design system experience with advanced Figma component design skills (auto layout, component properties, variants, and library management).
Required Skills/Experience
Participates in requirement‑gathering activities to identify business needs, user goals and measures of success.
Visualizes concepts and design through sketches, wireframes and prototypes to validate product concepts with users, team members and stakeholders.
Establishes buy‑in and understanding of larger user experience design vision through presentation of artifacts (from studies to process flows).
Creates and aligns to a design system, building style guides, pattern libraries, and components to codify a product's design language.
Manages component library, version control, and collaboration workflows in Figma.
Designs components optimized for responsiveness, including mobile, tablet, and desktop variations.
Strong understanding of component scalability – design once, use everywhere.
Plans, sets up, and executes remote or in‑person usability studies to identify usability issues and opportunities for improvement.
Develops experience maps to establish the direction of the user experience across customer touchpoints with a product.
Researches current design and technology trends, cognitive psychology, and human‑machine interaction.
Structures, organizes, and labels information so that it is most meaningful to users.
Iterates on designs based on user feedback.
Advocates for human‑centered design through evangelization and relationship‑building.
Preferred Skills/Experience
Strong visual and interaction design skills.
Basic knowledge of programming and working within complex data systems, understanding how coding or data/service limitations can affect the implementation or capabilities of a design.
Experience leading a project and/or team with strong leadership skills.
Education & Certifications
Bachelor's degree in a related field (required).
Master's degree in a related field (preferred).
Extensive experience in the User Experience Design field can be used to substitute education.
Equal Opportunity Employer KYYBA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. KYYBA does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non‑disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. Minorities / Females / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
It is the policy of KYYBA to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact KYYBA at 248-813-9665.
Rewards
401k
Term life
Voluntary life and disability insurance
Optional pre‑paid legal plan
Optional identity theft plan
Optional medical and dependent FSA
Opportunity for advancement
Long‑term assignment with opportunity for hire by client
SELECT AWARDS
An INC 5000 company for 10 years
Corp! Michigan Economic Bright Spots
Crain’s Detroit Business Top Staffing Service Companies in Detroit
TechServe Alliance Excellence Award – IT and Engineering Staffing & Solutions
Best of MichBusiness winner in HR Wizards & Partnerships
Metro Detroit Elite Category: Recruitment, Selection & Orientation for 101 Best & Brightest
101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work for in Michigan
Seniority Level Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type Contract
Job Function Information Technology
Industries Technology, Information and Media
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