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 Responsibilities:
· Design software the will accelerate internal employee efficiency, understanding, and capabilities with products that range across a variety of departments including fleet management, operations management, and more
· Work on mobile native, responsive web, and in-store digital experiences
· Function as a full stack designer, engaging in user-research, interaction design, visual design, experience / product ecosystem design and strategy
· Work closely and serve as a thought partner with Product Management, Engineering, Business, and other Stakeholders to lead the design of employee facing technology solutions that will define our platforms
· Develop strong knowledge of how the client's brand applies to layout, color theory, typography, language and iconography for digital products
· Collaborate with other designers in your team and with other client digital experience teams (User Research, In-Vehicle UX/UI, Mobile UX/UI, Digital Commerce UX/UI, Brand, Communications) to create solutions
· Contribute to the team’s set of best practices, standards, and design guidelines
· Comfortably switch context between multiple projects, including last-minute drills

Experience:
· At least 5 years of relevant industry experience in enterprise or B2B product design
· Strong body of work which demonstrates an understanding of design as it applies to web, mobile, and other digital products - online portfolio required for application
· Experience implementing visual design systems across a range of platforms in an iterative product design process
· Familiarity with design pattern standards across responsive web and native mobile
· Great communication skills and a history of teamwork and collaboration
· Proficient with tools like Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc...

Title:  User Experience Designer – Opportunity in growing tech startup
Salary Range:  Based on experience
Reports to: CTO
 

Company:  OxeFit is a stealth-mode startup corporation with offices located in Florida and Texas. OxeFit is focused on delivering a first of its kind solution that will transform the strength training and fitness industry. We are building a team of talented and motivated people who will have a career-defining opportunity to build a company from the ground up.

Job Description:  We currently have an opening for a qualified User Experience Designer who is interested in a full-time career opportunity. This creative and technical position will be part of a multi-disciplinary team developing a state of the art technology-oriented fitness platform that emphasizes both user interaction and data presentation. You will have the opportunity to work in a small and rapidly growing company with innovative cutting-edge technologies while working along-side others eager to create transformative solutions.

Essential Functions:

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.


• Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, and/or high fidelity prototypes.


• Integrate user feedback and business requirements into ongoing product experience updates.

Competencies:

• Fluent in graphic design software such as the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, the Affinity suite, Sketch, or comparable graphic design tools.


• Experience designing and developing highly usable UI’s on the web using tools such as React, Angular, Vue, etc.


• Experience designing and developing highly usable UI’s for native platforms either mobile or desktop. Doing so without using web technology adapters like Electron is a bonus.


• Experience designing visualizations and presentations of complex data


• Experience in designing and developing UI’s that integrate well with remote services/APIs

What makes you stand out:

• 3+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, product designer, or similar role.


• Experience designing for the web and mobile device experiences.


• Strong communication skills and collaborative attitude


• A self-starter capable of handling a variable task load under minimal supervision


• Proficient with industry standard design tools (Adobe CC, Sketch, InVision, etc)


• Advanced skills in problem-solving and familiarity with technical constraints and limitations as they apply to designing for platforms such as desktop and mobile, Android and iOS


• Ability to act as a leader in communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale, all within a user-centered design process

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:  Full-time, salaried

Location:  Pensacola, FL and Dallas/Frisco, Texas

Work authorization:  Must be authorized to work in the United States. OxeFit will not sponsor employment visa.

Education and Experience:

• 3-5 years relevant experience as a UX/UI Engineer/Designer


• Bachelor's degree in a related field such as Software Engineering or Graphic Design

What you can expect:

• Equity ownership participation


• Comprehensive benefit package and employer sponsored memberships


• A fun, challenging, and engaging start-up environment


• Agile, self-managed, self-organized teams


• A culture driven by innovation and team-focused engagement


• An entity that is committed to personal growth and opportunity


• Exposure to many cutting-edge and emerging technologies

 USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER

Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a User Experience Designer  for a contract position in Richfield, MN. Opportunity will be five months with a strong chance for a long-term extension.

Position Summary: Lead the practice and advocate for Human Centered Design within the Services and Home product group. This role will focus on driving modernization and simplicity in a highly complex end-to-end customer and employee-facing experience. Expertise to create best in class human center, UX solutions and wireframes, visual designs, as required.

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

• Ability to translate complex user need, business requirements and strategy documents into simple, compelling, human centered solutions.


• Be responsible for creating flows and wireframes to depict interaction solutions that are in line with user, business and IT requirements.


• Produce a variety of UX deliverables including detailed visual design and information architecture.


• Ability to present UX work and findings to a variety of audiences, including business product owners, IT resources, and senior leaders.


• Ability to work with business product owners, IT developers, business analysts, and other project resources.


• Perform UX quality assurance against developed applications and log defects with development teams.


• Relationship builder able to evangelize the mission and value of UX, build bridges, seek and gain alignment across business and discipline groups.


• Must understand mobile first and be proficient in designing for touch devices for the product evolution.


• Comfortable acting as a designer and managing the work of other designers, within a framework of project requirements to completion of deliverables as required.

Qualifications:

• Use case and portfolio examples are required for submission (online or PDF is acceptable)


• Use cases and portfolio must include visual design, user flows and wireframes


• 10+ years' experience delivering digital solutions to a variety of industries


• Experience working across digital, website, mobile applications and other touch-based experiences


• Touch and mobile first experience preferred


• Strong ability to build relationship, collaborate and assert a point of view positively


• Comfortable with change and ambiguity

Preferred:

• 5+ years experience in leadership role with other designers is preferred


• Bachelor's Degree in user experience, graphic design, marketing, human factors or similar


• Prototyping and design skills


• Sketch App skills


• Prior experience or Similar corporate experience


• Understanding of HTML/CSS (position does not include front-end development)


• Both remote and on-site (when safety allows) work models


• Sketch


• Jira


• InVision


• Figma


• Mural


• Axure


• Empathy


• Relationship builder and team player


• Practice advocate for Human Centered Design and UX


• Service Design


• Gets things done - Self-driven and pro-active

If this job is a match for your background, we would be honored to receive your application! 
 
Providing consulting opportunities to TALENTed people since 1987, we offer a host of opportunities including contract, contract to hire and permanent placement. Let's talk!

At MichiganLabs, we develop custom software for medium-sized organizations all the way up to Fortune 500’s. Our culture is friendly and our people are excellent at what they do.

UX Lead

As the User Experience (UX/UI) Design Lead, you will help define the future of design for our clients. You will set product strategy, solve complex UX problems, and inspire the team to push past boundaries. You will take time to understand the business problem and design solutions that meets the needs of users while accomplishing business objectives.

The task at hand

In this role, you will be the main advocate for crafting human-centered experiences, while also balancing what works for businesses and is technically viable. You will have the opportunity to mentor other designers and collaborate with clients to push the envelope on innovation, aesthetic, and complex problems made simple.

Outcomes you will create

• User experience vision for projects developed in partnership with our clients and their users, which may include any or all of the following outcomes:




• Deep understanding of target users, archetypes, and customer journeys




• Synthesis of user research into easy to understand recommendations




• Effective ideation, sketching and wireframing, sometimes in a collaborative setting




• High-fidelity designs heavily informed by user needs




• Designs that adhere to technical capabilities of the selected platforms (iOS, Android, Angular, Responsive Web, etc)




• Clearly communicated designs and easily exportable assets for development team to build




• Interactive click-through prototypes




• Collaboration with development team during the development process as design enhancements and changes are needed




• UI quality assurance




• Hands-on user testing of beta and production apps and synthesis of results and recommendations




• Thought leadership, direction, and mentorship for UX designers and developers at MichiganLabs and our clients.

Basic competencies

-Clear, consistent communication

-Creative and informed on the best practices of UX

-Strong follow-through when faced with competing priorities

- Proven ability to navigate technical constraints, nail down business value, pinpoint user needs, generate creative ideas, and ultimately produce simple design solutions.

- Leadership initiative, both internally and with clients

- Ability to present and sell designs appropriately and powerfully to any team member or stakeholder - developers, product owners, or even client executives.

Must have’s
-Product design background (Sketch or Adobe products)

-Software background (education or professional)

- Experience with proper design project setup, workflow, and design systems

- Deep understanding of iOS, Android, and Web technologies and how to design for them

Nice to have’s
-Experience with one or more agile methodologies

-Consulting background

-Large project team experience

- Experience with proper design project setup, workflow, and design systems

- Deep understanding of iOS, Android, and Web technologies and how to design for them

What we offer

-Competitive salary

-Beautiful new office in downtown Ada

-Option to work remote on Wednesdays

-Great people with lives outside of work

-Buttoned-up process based on iterative development and weekly client feedback

-Reasonable workload—generally 40-hour weeks

-Slack to stay connected

Benefits

-Excellent health and dental (we pay 100% of premiums for employee, legal spouse, and children)

-Paid vacation and time off

-401(k) with a one-to-one match for employee 401(k) contributions up to 3% of annual salary and .5% on the next 2% of employee contributions

-Ongoing professional development, including books, conferences, and certifications

-Community—We spring for lunch every other Friday up on our roof deck

-12 paid holidays: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Day After Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day through New Year's

Interested? Here’s how we bring people on

1. [Connect] Start by reaching out to us: https://michiganlabs.com/careers

2. [Quick Response] A member of our leadership team will connect with you promptly—this will continue throughout the process because we value getting to know you

3. [30 Min Call] Show us your skills! This could be a technical exercise or simply learning more about the projects you’ve worked on.

4. [1 Hour Interview] We’ll have a conversation to determine the next steps. Whether you’re ready to join MichiganLabs now or down the road, one thing is for sure: the experience will be positive and our feedback will be transparent. We may even offer an optional trial day.

5. [1 hour Lunch] We’ll grab a bite and you can experience a day at MichiganLabs

6. [Offer Letter!] Finally, we’ll check your references and extend a formal offer. Once you get your foot in the door, you’ll know you’re in the right place.

https://michiganlabs.bamboohr.com/jobs/

The Creative UI Visual Designer will be responsible for delivering on a full portfolio of design services within the Experience Design Group, which creates a working model of best practices for strategy, creative and technology. The Creative UI Visual Designer will be responsible for implementing design and mentoring others on design best practices.

Skills Requirements:

• A strong portfolio showcasing UI Design comps.


• 5+ years of relevant work experience – a concentration in design for enterprise applications or large public facing web sites required.


• Ability to further establish, improve and define the UI design practice within the organization keeping in line with organization goals.


• Leading the direction and maintenance of a consistent UI across all products, digital experiences and user touch points.


• Working Knowledge of Lean, and Agile process point of view.


• Experience with designing in Sketch required.


• Experience with rapid prototyping tools such as Axure or InVision, a plus.


• 5+ years of experience with Adobe Creative Suite or Sketch.


• Knowledge of interactive design and how HTML works a plus.


• Self-driven to stay abreast of current technology and design trends.


• Proven ability to thrive under pressure.


• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design and/or equivalent work experience required.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Maintain a hands-on approach to deliverables that span the full design lifecycle.


• Ensuring project requests are delivered on-time and ensuring a consistent customer experience through the various applications within the service line.


• Ability to simplify complexity in order to translate them into intuitive application/web experiences.


• Ability to persuade key business and IT stakeholders where necessary.

• Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal and teaming skills.


• Organized and detail-oriented.


• Establish and execute process and establish roles.


• Provide level of effort estimates for requirements of own role.


• Track project tasks, provide status and ensure tasks are completed on schedule.


• Facilitate knowledge sharing to cross functional teams.

• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively.


• Educate and endorse best practices across all UI competencies.


• Assist in owning responsibility for quality of design output.

Additional desirable skills (optional) are the following:

• Mobile Design & Development.


• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.


• Experience in a financial sector.