Senior UX-Ui Designer

Founded in 1997 with offices in the US and Vietnam, East Agile is resilient product engineering company that works directly with clients around the globe to deliver highly reliable products. Whether they are startups looking to build an MVP product or enterprises scaling their business, our clients won’t have to worry about technical debt. We use a pure form of Agile engineering called eXtreme Programming, a collection of best practices and execute them with ease. This ensures low engineering risk and extraordinary results.

As a Senior UX-UI Designer at East Agile, you will be responsible for overseeing all user experience and design aspects of the organization. You will be gathering user requirements, designing graphic elements and building navigation components. The Senior UI/UX Designer works with the Product & Marketing team to develop a cohesive experience throughout our platform in order to increase user satisfaction. Our ideal candidate is responsible for guiding the entirety of the design process through its completion by presenting them to management and clients while working alongside developers to ensure accurate implementation. This candidate helps East Agile achieve their goal of helping users pass conversion points through a seamless design with ease. The candidate will achieve that by understanding the end user and making sure their needs are being met. Besides working with the Product and Marketing Team on the East Agile product, you will be challenged to turn our clients software into easy-to-use product.

To be successful as a senior UX-UI Designer at East Agile, you need to have experience with design software and wireframe tools. Send us your portfolio of professional design projects that includes both graphic designs as well as works related to web & mobile applications. Proper English communication is a must and the ability to convert constructive feedback to proper results is required in this fast-paced environment. Ultimately, you’ll create both functional and appealing features that address our clients’ needs and help us grow our customer base.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Product and Marketing team to maintain a cohesive design and experience throughout our product, providing expertise while following the direction of management and clients.
• Raise the capacity, skills and quality of user-centered design on your product.
• Exercise your expertise in performance, architecture, and object-oriented design to deliver compelling customer experiences.
• Critique in-progress design work, evaluating the priority and effectivity of solutions.
• Improve the range of research methods used.
• Employ design thinking and questioning techniques to develop strategies and execution plans where pathways are not always obvious.
• Provide and encourage feedback from management, clients and other members of the product development team.
• Interview target audience and record their responses to be archived and be used later in the process.
• Create an Affinity Diagram at any time during the pre-design process.
• Apply User Flow and map out pathways an individual will take in a website or platform.
• Develop personas and create a profiles particular users based on characteristics.
• Successfully perform a task analysis by studying user testing to understand how someone does a specific task.
• Effectively map Use-Case and state why a person would use the platform.
• Map and understand user requirements through product management tools by following a user’s story.
• Successfully use and apply wireframes in order to interface concepts.
• Create prototypes to show and demonstrate interactions.
• Conduct Usability Testing to validate design concepts.
• Regularly participate in design reviews.
• Study analytics to understand user behavior.

Capabilities

• 5+ years experience in visual user interface design.
• Ability to create clean, visually consistent designs.
• In-depth knowledge of Photoshop, InDesign, XD, Illustrator, and Microsoft Office; Experience with Sketch and Zeplin are a must.
• Understanding and appreciation of standard user interface design concepts and processes.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present complex concepts clearly and persuasively across diverse audiences at various levels of our organization.
• Meticulous attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple design requests in a timely fashion, with competing priorities and deadlines.
• Experience testing websites and software on a variety of platforms including iOS and Android mobile and devices.
• Previous experience with user centered design principles and practices, web/mobile standards, typography and color, and web/mobile usability standards.
• Have contributed as a leader in design and a strong collaborator across product managers and engineers.
• Knowledgeable in creating wireframes, visual mockups graphics, user workflows, and low and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Ability to work with designers and developers to implement new ideas.