Technical Specialist - UX Engineering
Manpower Group Inc. - Redmond, Washington, United States, 98052Work at Manpower Group Inc.
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Overview
Role: UX Engineering
Profession: Design & Creative
Discipline: UX Engineering
Responsibilities
Engineering Excellence
• Acts as a liaison and fills in gaps between design and engineering. Deepens knowledge and mastery of engineering fundamentals (e.g., interpreting designs, writing code, working with source control). Leads design reviews to ensure code quality, and creates specs to document validation efforts.
• Develops and/or enables front end design solutions, technical prototypes, tooling, and/or user interface systems (e.g., controls, animation libraries, utilities). Builds out design components (e.g., responsiveness, microinteractions, register-transfer level) with code so they can be used by engineers. Contributes to architecting technical solutions and developing increasingly complex architecture. Focuses on the user experience, incorporating elements that react to user interactions. Leverages techniques to make designs accessible, performance oriented, and reusable.
Design Process
• Generates ideation solutions for complex products (e.g., involving many constraints, requiring holistic view of interconnected systems) through design meetings to improve product designs. Utilizes a variety of perspectives when ideating (e.g., Technology, Business, Marketing). Synthesizes complex ideation solutions to a concise articulation of user wants and subsequent solutions. Facilitates enrollment for an ideation exercise as part of a design sprint.
• Creates clarity for other members of the team, and begins influencing the prioritization of the product backlog and sprint management. Defines and prioritizes product plans based on multiple factors such as user insights and business needs. Begins to demonstrate intuition for product design needs. Identifies needs that are not spoken and includes them in end-to-end design plan and process. Develops a synthesis of user insights and compares to data to identify larger issues that may not be apparent for user desires. Collaborates with product owners and development team members to shepherd end-to-end experiences from concept to product shipment for products.
Design Workflows
• Develops functional prototypes to meet needs at hand (e.g., speed, depth, fidelity) and solve complex challenges, building on previous work and emphasizing efficiencies. Presents to teams (e.g., Design and Engineering) and/or customers to receive feedback and form a partnership for iterations. Seeks to understand user needs and propose a design prototype, evaluate its usefulness, and determine next steps to ensure optimal product designs. Advocates for prototyping. Prototypes in accordance with company's brand and guidelines, and invents/improves guidelines when existing guidelines are unclear.
• Interacts with Engineering for successful design implementation, and performs Quality Assurances (QAs) to help them ensure "pixel perfect" designs. Works with developers to iterate further on designs during implementation to ensure optimal designs. Demonstrates ability to challenge limitations, negotiate with Engineering, adjust Engineering schedules, find alternatives, and make case for designs to be implemented in a certain way.
• Builds and maintains tools and platforms to enable efficiencies across teams. Oversees versioning of tools and platforms, ensuring interoperability. Synthesizes feedback on customer needs, both internally and externally. Drives efforts to solve problems and help others be more efficient. Proactively connects Design and Engineering with tools and platforms. Shares tool updates to keep teams up to date and to enable team improvements. Builds value into tools and platforms already available (e.g., Figma plugins, Storybook). Ensures the use and adoption of latest tool updates in the industry and/or makes a case for acquiring a new set of tools.
• Ensures the use and adoption of the latest codebases and design systems (e.g., content templates, icons, form design, UI controls, navigation models. Gathers updates in the industry and/or makes a case for acquiring systems. Helps others use codebases and systems, and drives consistency and alignment within the team. Holds responsibility for contributions to existing and new codebases, design systems, and themes; integrates ideas from across teams.
Collaboration and Process
• Communicates up and out to leaders. Communicates with Engineering and feature teams outside of core team through all stages of design and development to ensure effective communication across groups. Owns communication for what they are doing in a proactive way. Identifies which mode of communication should be used, managing manages tonality, respectfulness, and inclusivity.
• Works with multiple disciplines (e.g. creative team, program managers, developers, writers, UX Research) to define and iterate on new and existing product features. Collaborates with, creates, and helps the team deliver product design results while also guiding the team's newer members. Begins to influence stakeholders across a few disciplines (e.g., Marketing, Sales). Ensures that voice is needed, sought out, and asked for to promote optimal product designs. Connects dots between teams to enable collaboration, identifying opportunities to build on the work of others and leverage previous work.
• Communicates a compelling, convincing product story to a specific audience. Shares stories to leaders and adjusts narrative depending on the audience.
Leadership
• Influences those outside of design. Provides guidance and mentorship to team members in specific areas of expertise. Ensures full understanding of the original design and vision, and links to established problem and/or goal. Interviews and screens candidates.
Passion for new innovative technology and drive customer transformation
Ability to travel domestically and work with different cultures and customers
Ability to communicate with a variety of different audiences and strong presentation skills
Demonstrate effective balance between business and technical acumen
Ability to lead and motivate technical communities
Ability to effectively recognize and adapt to change
Ability to deliver presentations and discuss complimentary products at a solutions level
Ability to handle customer critical issues and work in difficult situations
Effective written and verbal communication skills, with both technical and non-technical audiences
Ability to evaluate end-user business requirements, translate them into technical specifications, and then develop and implement the appropriate technical solutions
Fluent English oral and written communication
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