UX/CX Web Designer/ Remote ( Salem, OR), 1+ Month Contract

Remote role and Location no preference

The Website UX Designer works for the IT Solutions Manager and is responsible for designing intuitive, attractive and engaging user journeys. The Website UX Designer will analyze use cases to create wire frames and final designs for new website and web portal functionality being developed.
Job Highlights:

• Contract
• 5 weeks, 40 hours per week
• Monday-Friday

About the Authority:
Client is a quasi-governmental agency formed by statute and signed into law by Governor Ned Lamont in 2019. Its mission is to help Connecticut's workforce navigate health challenges and life changes with greater financial security.

Through a trust funded by employees, the Authority makes benefits payments to eligible employees
when either the employee or their family member takes a leave from work to care for themselves or a family member.
Examples of Duties:

• Collaborate with product managers, technical leads, and other stakeholders to iterate and clarify requirements
• Translate complex requirements into clear and easy user experiences
• Create storyboards, wireframes, high fidelity mockups, user flows, information architecture diagrams, or other artifacts required to build shared understanding across cross-functional teams and communicate vision and final requirements to internal stakeholders
• Work closely with cross-functional team members to guide execution and navigate technical constraints and tradeoffs while bringing UX/UI designs to life
• Collaborate with the QA Team, enabling them to develop usability test scripts
• Maintain system documentation as required

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - GENERAL EXPERIENCE
Five (5) years of experience in digital design experience focused on user experience and look and feel of web and mobile interfaces.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - SPECIAL EXPERIENCE
One (1) year of the General Experience must have been designing user experiences for website applications for the financial or insurance industry.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - SUBSTITUTIONS ALLOWED
1. College training in management information systems, graphic arts or information technology related area may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of fifteen (15) semester hours equaling six (6) months of experience to a maximum of four (4) years for a Bachelor's degree.
2. A Master's degree in graphic arts, UX or CX design related area may be substituted for one (1) additional year of the General Experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
· Bachelor's degree in Graphic Arts, or equivalent education or work experience
· 5+ years' digital design experience
· 3+ years' UX/CX experience
· 1+ years' experience in documenting and communicating accessibility requirements for development hand-off of your UX designs
· Portfolio highlighting UX design work and your process of designing and developing for mobile responsive web applications or enterprise software
· Experience with UX industry leading software such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
· Experience designing for Salesforce Community Cloud
· Experience using Jira
· Experience with the agile software development
Other Key Skills:

• Interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with teams to deliver excellent results and maintain a collegial work environment.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to share authority and responsibility in high stakes, complex and fast-moving work environment.
• Project and time management skills, including a high level of organization, attention to detail, and follow-through, while balancing and prioritizing multiple activities and responsibilities.
• Relationship-building skills and ability to inspire collaboration, including success in working in teams, projects, and people towards action through persuasion.
• Ability to be professionally engaged, present, and on-camera using virtual face-to-face technologies (MS Teams, Zoom, WebEx, chat, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience engaging in creative problem solving and taking initiative, while utilizing a solutions-oriented approach and exhibiting flexibility and good judgement in a complex organizational ecosystem.

Type

Category

Qualification

Description

Competency

Required

Skills

Design

Adobe Photoshop

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Design

User Experience Design (UX)

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Others

Communication skills both verbal and written

Proficient (4-6 Years)

Yes

Skills

Others

Presentation skills

Novice (1-3 Years)

Yes

Skills

Others

Process Flow Analysis

Novice (1-3 Years)

No

Skills

Tools

MicrosoftOffice

Proficient (4-6 Years)

No

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Last updated on Jul 12, 2022