Senior Interaction Designer Job in New Jersey, New Jersey Us
SENIOR INTERACTION DESIGNER
Overview
This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to be part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team and have a chance to make an immediate positive impact on the experience of users around the globe.
As part of the Global User Experience team based in Cambridge, MA, Senior Interaction Designers are responsible for leading their projects by creating engaging, meaningful and social interactive experiences for our global user base on Monster, BeKnown and our partner sites. You will work closely with Interaction Designers, Visual Designers, UX Researchers, Copywriters, Product Managers, SEO specialists, and Engineers who are all committed to developing innovative, easy-to-use, best-of-breed new products and overhauling existing ones in accordance with Monster’s new brand guidelines.
You will engage with various business partners to develop beautiful, professionally annotated wireframes, participate in UX research and persona development, sketching, develop product concepts, interactive models, and functional prototypes.
This position is based in Cambridge, MA and reports to the Director of Global User Experience. This role will work closely with teams globally, including Cambridge and Maynard, MA, Prague, Malaysia, and other Monster offices located throughout the world. Designing experiences that work for multiple cultures in varying markets globally is a daily part of the experience at Monster.
Monster is looking for someone who can take complex information and concepts and distill them into a great user experience that is easily understood by the target audience. If you are a self-starter who is comfortable with a fast-moving, team-oriented design process, this is an excellent opportunity for you. You must be a team player and enthusiastic about helping provide job seekers and employers around the world with the best experience on the web.
Responsibilities
- Bring strong creative, conceptual and problem-solving skills to translate conceptual ideas (business needs and user goals) into interaction design solutions.
- Assess data from multiple sources (product requirements, tech constraints, UX research, web analytics, industry trends…) and synthesize it in order to develop efficient user scenarios, taxonomies, classification schemes, navigation systems, design patterns, etc.
- Create and effectively present UX deliverables (wireframes, workflows, prototypes, etc.) to explain and negotiate design solutions to key stakeholders.
- Pro-actively check in with the engineering team to review the work and ensure that the design implemented matches your designs very closely. Monster uses a ticketing system for tracking defects, which everyone is responsible for using to report, track, and close out defects.
- Develop competitive assessments and perform site heuristic reviews.
- Help define, request and incorporate relevant and recent UX research and data from customer feedback to appropriately inform design decisions.
- Upholding UX guiding principles and style in project execution.
- Create, maintain and share project documentation and UX guidelines after project execution.
- Disseminate best practices across the UX organization.
- Educate fellow Interaction Designers on industry experiences as well as help guide and mentor mid-level Interaction Designers