UX Designer

Company Profile

At Sand Cherry Associates, we excel in the design and delivery of strategic customer-centric initiatives through digitally native, data-empowered solutions. Our client’s confidence in us is centered on exceptionally skilled, high-energy talent working with the support of the full Sand Cherry team. Finding the right match for this role is a critical aspect of continuing that success.

Overview

We are looking for an experienced UX Designer who will support UX design for the app, portal, and buy flow. This role will create meaningful user stories, storyboards, prototypes and wireframes. This is a short term remote contract role. All qualified candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide detailed interface design, including designing usable web/mobile layout, navigation, and content elements while maximizing system performance
• Define and implement product vision and design strategy to build experiences for users
• Gather and translate business requirements and user needs into hi-fidelity prototypes and UI designs
• Collaborate with cross-departmental teams, business leaders and stakeholders
• Understand every aspect of the user's experience and business goals to coordinate and deliver designs, prototypes, and documentation to high standards
• Analyze data and user feedback to make critical design decisions and continually improve the user experience
• Present design solutions to senior management, project teams, partners, and stakeholders
• Recommend improvements in UI design elements that enable internal business partners to achieve their goals
• Utilize technical knowledge to produce achievable and efficient solutions
• Test UI design as it's developed to ensure pages project desired look and feel
• Recommend improvements in web functionality, navigation, and UI design elements
• Serve as an informal functional tester for web UI design projects

Requirements

Desired Skills & Experience

• Minimum 5 years User Experience Design, User Interface Design, and/or Product Design experience
• Proven design of successful, well received products as a visual designer and UX designer
• Advanced knowledge in user-centered design principles, visual design, user behavior and interaction design
• Advanced knowledge in user experience design (information architecture, interaction design, visual design, prototype engineering, content, user experience, and accessibility)
• Experience with design thinking and lean methodologies
• Experience working collaboratively with strategists, researchers, developers, project and product managers, and other stakeholders in an Agile framework
• Experience defining design strategies for program-wide initiatives, including resource planning, estimating work and timelines
• Experience with measurement planning (business, analytics, and UX metrics) to ensure products are meeting goals and outcomes
• Define and document design principles & methodologies, processes, and best practices
• Contribute to a learning culture that drives aligned autonomy and mastery of design
• Manage workload to ensure work is prioritized and time is managed effectively
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and team collaboration skills

Education & Certifications

Bachelors degree in Design, Computer Science, Engineering or related quantitative field

Compensation

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in Colorado, Sand Cherry Associates is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to the State of Colorado and takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and delivery model. This role is a short-term consulting contract with an hourly rate of $80. Years of experience, level of education, geographic location, unique skills/qualifications for the specific role and potential certifications can be key factors in the final compensation for this role.

Benefits

Our team is unique — we are passionate about what we do. At Sand Cherry, our Consultants know they are impacting and shaping our clients’ industries. We recognize our employees for their contributions. Our culture is one of the most friendly and communicative in the consulting industry. Sand Cherry is not a top-heavy organization. We offer the opportunity to be part of a digital workforce. Discover the experience that only comes with self-responsibility in the workplace. Our team members manage their own workloads and are expected to deliver exceptional work for our clients. Professional career growth is one of our main priorities, as we affirm that investing in our Consultants and empowering our people will also deliver the best results and value for our clients.