User Experience Lead

  • Full-time

Company Description

Seamgen is San Diego’s premier custom web and mobile application development agency, dedicated to positively impacting the lives and experiences of individuals through the implementation and utilization of software, UX design, and innovative technology. We integrate digital experiences and digital transformations across mobile and web environments resulting in meaningful interactions for users that exceed client’s expectations.

We are located in La Jolla right near the beach, but most roles can be hybrid or remote. Seamgen’s values include fostering a comfortable work environment, creating quality digital products, and optimizing software processes for both clients and employees.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • As User Experience Lead you be creating workflow diagrams, wireframes, and screen designs for enterprise and mobile applications
     
  • Be able to facilitate research exercises such as Feature ideation workshops , Stakeholder & User interviews, or other exercises in the design sprint methodology
     
  • Produce research artifacts like personas, journey maps, service design blueprints, etc
  • Experience designing for different platforms; mobile; tablet; and desktop

  • Experience designing and creating prototypes with tools like Figma, Axure, InVision, Principle, etc.

  • Assist in ensuring all designs are built on a foundation of solid usability and intuitive design principles

  • Participate in design review meetings with clients and internal teams

  • Meeting with clients to exceed design expectations, while being sensitive to how their needs may impact the development timeline, etc.

  • Working closely with the development team to ensure designs are fully implementable

  • Documenting project requirements in the form of feature lists, wireframe annotations, and User Stories.

 

Qualifications

Experience

  • At least 3-5 years of experience in Visual and UX (or Interaction Design) with emphasis in human-centered design methods

  • Bachelor’s Degree in interaction design, cognitive science, visual design, game design, cognitive psychology, sociology, or related disciplines

  • An inspiring portfolio that showcases your process, problem solving capabilities, and visual design prowess

  • Experience working in complex, technical environments

  • Ability to understand business goals and craft intuitive solutions for complex problems

  • Expert with Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Illustrator, or other design tools

  • Ability to create interactive high-fidelity prototypes using Figma, InVision, Axure, Framer, Principle or similar tools

  • Ability to promote and champion your design solutions based on reason, research, and data

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

 

Additional Information

Bonus Skills

  • Experience working in a product owner capacity

  • Motion graphics or UI animation experience

  • Working knowledge of front end development technologies and frameworks

  • Experience building complex design systems and component libraries