User Experience Designer
Position title:User Experience Designer
Reports to:Vice President of R&D
Department:Research & Development
InSitu Inc. is looking for an experienced creative and collaborative User Experience Designer who can keep the user at the center of our business while crafting highquality usable and pleasurable experiences for a wide range of water instrumentationrelated products both physical and digital. Someone who can quickly get inside the users head and know what motivates them instinctively understands how to design a good experience and what it takes to make that design a reality. In addition someone who can advocate for increasing UX across the business.
As a User Experience Designer at InSitu you will receive direction from our User Experience Lead and be involved in the full range of UX design tasks: UI design interaction design information architecture prototyping wireframes storyboards design specifications user research and usability testing. In addition to design responsibilities you will interact daily with software engineering mechanical engineering product management and marketing teams to produce the most usable products in our industry.
Essential Functions:
- Lead design efforts from concept through implementation including translating user requirements into highly usable applications in partnership with engineering and product management.
- Design wireframes mockups and interactive prototypes to effectively communicate the user experience of features to internal stakeholders and project team members.
- Ensure a consistent interactive experience across applications and devices.
- Facilitating onsite discovery and design workshops to bring clarity to our user problems and potential solutions.
- Analyze user experiences across our digital platforms (web and mobile) to uncover opportunities to encourage growth and development consistency.
- Conduct user research and usability testing to gather insights on pain points and opportunities for improvement.
- Support the maintenance of our internal design system.
- Ensure timely and quality delivery to development teams.
- Follow guidance from the User Experience Lead on the design system design processes team workflows and company standards.
Requirements (in order of importance):
- UX is just a part of who you are i.e. you cant stop seeing ways to make experiences better.
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with product managers and engineers to achieve desired result.
- Proven ability to create super usable and attractive designs and experiences including both graphics and interaction.
- Willing to accept design input/critique from various team members.
- Borderline annoying attention to detail.
- Excellent written verbal and visual communication skills.
- Ability to travel up to 10 of the time to perform enduser testing and research.
- Ability to effectively translate project requirements into workflows/prototypes/wireframes.
- Willing to push against obstacles in the way of a genuinely pleasurable user experience.
- Able to ensure designs are accurately carried out through the implementation stage.
- Excellent presentation moderation and user interview skills.
- Experience performing usability testing for desktop web and mobile interfaces.
- Experience with creation and using personas for design development.
- Bachelors degree in User Experience design HCI visual design or related field or 4 years of related experience.
- Applicants must be legally eligible to work in the United States.
Desired:
- Exposure to industrial design and mechanical design.
- Experience with usability assessment of physical products.
- Solid understanding of responsive web design (theory and practice).
- Mobile app design experience (iOS and/or Android).
- Proficiency with Figma.
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite products.
- Experience in an Agile development environment.
Total Rewards:
Compensation:Compensation will be commensurate with the applicants education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as alignment with market data and internal benchmarks.
- Salary Range: $85000$105000
- Additional Compensation:Participation in a Companysponsored variable compensation plan.
Benefits Available:
- Health Dental and Vision Insurance.
- 401(k) matching.
- Short and LongTerm Disability.
- Group Life/AD&D Insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Will and Trust Preparation Services.
- Travel Assistance Services.
- 10 paid holidays per year (set by the company).
- 20 days of Flexible Time Off (FTO) accrued evenly throughout the year.
Voluntary Benefits:
- Life AD&D Pet Insurance Identity Theft Protection Legal Services.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for Dependent Care.
- Health Savings Account (HSA).
- Other supplemental options.
Additional Benefits:
- Paid Parental Leave.
- Continuing Education Reimbursement.
- Dependent Care and Wellness Reimbursements.
Application Instructions:
InSitu Inc. builds worldclass environmental monitoring instruments and worldclass careers!
Please apply at the above qualifications are met.
- No phone calls about this job.
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- Do not contact the job poster about other services products or commercial interests.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of age race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected veteran status.
InSitu is an Equal Opportunity Employer