Position Details
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Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is the brand name of Deere & Company, an American corporation that manufactures agricultural machinery, heavy equipment, forestry machinery, diesel engines, drivetrains used in heavy equipment, and lawn care equipment.
Job Title: UX Designer
Location: Urbandale, IA 50322
Duration: 17 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Onsite
Visa sponsorship is not available, now or in the near future, for this position.
Job Description:
- As a User Experience (UX) Design Lead for the Client Intelligent Solutions Group (Client Location), you will support projects of moderate and high complexity through the development of User Interaction task flows, wireframes, prototypes through to final production for new and existing products.
Major Purpose:
- Leverages user experience research insights and recommendations to accelerate discussions and decisions early in the product development process.
- Applies internal/external standards and best practices to create tangible visualizations that serve as the blueprint for product team to turn a concept into a solution, while ensuring they stay consistent with brand standards.
- Work at this level is of moderate to high complexity, covering multiple user classes and personas, which may involve creating new personas.
- Designs cover multiple products/components across multiple platforms, usually in the same division, and enable moderate to highly complex and often concurrent user interactions.
- Leads and/or participates in the creation of the user experience (UX) strategy and standards for a narrow set of related solutions.
- Actively works to share knowledge across workgroups.
- Mentors and coaches less-experienced UX Designers.
- Creates and designs elements or components resulting in high quality user experience designs
- Incorporates branding and common design guidelines into products.
- Creates wireframes, mock-ups, prototypes and specifications.
- Maintains style guides for varying methods of delivery.
- Follows appropriate design methodology, tools, and protocols to conduct user-centered design.
- Translates analytics data into visual designs to support interpretation and generation of insights or vice versa.
- Monitors external patterns and trends and evaluates their impact on internal design philosophies.
- Performs research and makes recommendations for adopting relevant emerging design trends.
Skills, Abilities, Knowledge:
- Possesses working knowledge of core user interface languages.
- Technical skill and knowledge in a specialized area of engineering, e.g., design, analysis, test, evaluation, etc.
- Skill in interpersonal communications, negotiation, and conflict resolution.? High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to deliver production-ready, clean and usable digital user interfaces across multiple form factors.
Education:
- Degree in an Information Technology discipline or equivalent experience - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
- Degree in a Marketing discipline or equivalent experience - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
- Miscellaneous degree or equivalent experience - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
Work Experience:
- Work experience in a team environment. (4 - 7 years)
- Internal or external industry specific experience in relevant discipline. (4 - 7 years)
- Experience facilitating workshops on specific need(s) for the job, discipline, function, unit, etc. (1 - 3 years)
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
