Tekwissen is hiring: UX Designer Senior in Detroit

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a health insurance company. It offers different types of health care coverage plans that include individual and family, dental and vision, plans for employers, etc.

Title: UX Designer Senior

Work Location: Detroit, MI, 48226

Duration: 13 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Dept: Transparency

Engagement Description -

• 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 - The most important must-have skills. Include:

Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in the following:

User research

• Conduct discovery and design research to inform UX direction and design
• Participate in design strategy activities that set the experience direction for products

UX design

• Communicate 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 - The rest of the required skills/experience. Include:

• 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)
• Experience creating and aligning to a design system. Building style guides, pattern libraries, and components to codify a product's design language.
• Component library management, version control, and collaboration workflows in Figma.
• Ability to design components optimized for responsiveness, including mobile, tablet, and desktop variations.
• Strong understanding of component scalability. Design once, use everywhere.
• Plans, sets up, and executes on remote or in-person usability studies to identify usability issues and opportunities for improvements
• Develops experience maps to establish the direction of the user experience across customer's touchpoints with a product
• Research current design and technology trends, cognitive psychology and human machine interaction
• Structure, organize and label 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 - Optional but preferred skills/experience. Include:

• Strong Visual and Interaction Design skills.
• Basic knowledge of programing and working within complex data systems.
• Understand how coding or data/service limitations can affect the implementation or capabilities of a design.
• Experience leading a project and/or team. Strong leadership skills.

Education/Certifications - Include:

• Bachelor's degree in related field required
• Master's degree in related field preferred
• Extensive Experience in the User Experience Design field can be used to substitute education.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.