Title: Senior UX/UI Designer
Location: San Francisco, CA (Prefers hybrid onsite, open to complete remote)
Duration: 9 +Months
 
Day of the contractor will look like:

• Understand business objectives.Help size the work. Review past user research. Evaluate competitive and comparative examples.
• Draft user flows and wireframes.Share your work with product managers, engineers, accessibility experts, and UX peers.
• Create high-fidelity comps and prototypes including motion and interactivity.
• Partner with user researcher on planning and execution of studies.
• Apply study findings to your designs.Specify your designs to communicate them with Engineering.
• Collaborate with Engineering to build your designs.
• Participate in QA to ensure it's built right.

 Must have skills:

• Responsive Web and Mobile UX Design, with an emphasis on interaction design.
• Design Systems
• Figma
• Ability to effectively contribute in an organization operating in Agile Methodology
• Communication
• Accessibility Knowledge
• Global Design Knowledge (testing designs for long languages etc)

 Optional skills:

• User Research
• Experimentation
• Behavioral Analytics

 Overview:
Client requires a Senior UI/UX Designer who will be responsible for designing experiences that bring inspiration, fun, clarity, and innovation to the events web experience.  The Senior UI/UX Designer will work on the clients Events Website that enables both live and on-demand event experiences.  The website enables our attendees to discover, learn, register, attend, and engage with event content. The experiences that the Senior UI/UX Designer creates will improve discoverability, drive engagement, increase on-demand viewership, and boost organic traffic.  The Senior UI/UX Designer will discover, ideate, conceptualize, prototype, test, and specify new elements of the experience, while contributing to the design system.   
 
Responsibilities:

• Design and deliver new and enhanced user flows, page patterns, molecules, and components.
• Communicate design goals and outcomes with various stakeholders to build a shared understanding.
• Collaborate with team members from various disciplines including user research, product management, events strategy, accessibility, engineering, brand creative design, and copywriting teams.
• Perform competitive/comparative analysis, uncovering new design inspiration.
• Design micro-interactions that bring our brand to life.
• Create high quality UX deliverables to communicate the design, which may include user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and detailed design specs (while taking advantage of developer tools for efficient handoff).
• Translate experimentation and research outcomes into useful, usable, and elegant design solutions
• Ensure all designs are accessible and inclusive.
• Ship high quality implementations by pairing closely with QA and developers
• Deeply understand and translate the brand to digital event experiences.

 Experience / Skills:

• Proven experience as a UX/UI designer, with a strong portfolio showcasing your design work for web and mobile applications, with an emphasis on interaction design.
• Preferred 7+ years of UX/UI design, with a proven record of leading websites and/or products from conceptualization to market success.
• Eye for modern design that produces visually appealing and intuitive interfaces
• Ability to leverage and expand upon well-established brand assets and styles
• Deep understanding of user-centered design methods and standard processes
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, collaborative, agile environment, and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to generate design concepts even when faced with ambiguity and aggressive timelines
• Self-starter with the ability to produce results independently as well as part of a team
• Strong communication skills and active listening ability
• Adept at fostering relationships with core and cross-functional teams
• Utilizes data, including analytics and user research, to inform decisions and refine product iterations
• Ability to distill complex problems into clear and concise goals and solutions.
• Practices systems thinking and advocating for holistic solutions, considering individual features within the context of the overall user flow.
• Expert knowledge of current design tools such as Figma and ability to quickly learn new tools as they emerge
• Experience in developing globally-reaching software, universally designed for users of diverse languages and abilities.
• Possesses knowledge of WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 standards and applies them across all designs.
• Applies accessibility instructions via annotations in Figma or through code examples.
• Understands the effects of common technical constraints such as performance, platform, SEO and framework on accessibility, and vice versa.
• Is familiar with various assistive technologies.
• Selects and verifies colors to ensure sufficient and accessible contrast.
• Uses proper HTML roles and ARIA labels to support effective screen reader behavior.
• Ensures the entire interface can be navigated with a keyboard or switch device.
• Follows mobile accessibility guidelines so touch targets, gestures, and text remain easy to use and read.
• Understands how to design motion that respects reduced-motion settings and avoids causing discomfort.

 Years of Experience:

• How many years of experience would you consider overqualified: 20 years
• How many years of experience would you consider underqualified: 4 years

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 80.00/hr.