Jr. User Interface (UI) Designer

Company Description

Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services.

We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs.

Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence. Collabera offers a full range of benefits to its employees including paid vacations, holidays, personal days, Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, 401K retirement savings plan, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance.

Job Description

The Junior UI Designer will work closely with an existing team of high performing UX Designers, User Experience Researchers, and UI Designers to create the user experience for the core journeys and products of AmericanExpress.com. You will partner closely with functional leads in a fast moving, agile team.

As a Jr. UI Designer you will be hands on in all aspects of the interface design including: gathering and understanding business & user needs, visual design research, competitive analysis, storyboard development, developing and detailing mood boards, user interface research and design, asset production, poster design, high/low fidelity prototypes and a wide range of strategic UI deliverables that drive core concepts to generate best in digital interactive experiences.

Responsibilities include:

• Transform ideas, business opportunities, research and creative vision into tangible assets that provide clear, usable, useful and desirable outcomes for users
• Create UI comps, pattern sets, details and assets for usability testing and live production environments, develop high / low fidelity prototypes, story boards and a wide range of UI assets and deliverables
• Work closely with team leads to drive best digital experiences through all phases of product development, ship, and iterate
• Effectively act on partner feedback integrating user testing results and learning’s to improve the creative production process and ultimately our products and services
• Develop fast moving, tangible design process that deliver quality experiences within sprint cycles
• Brainstorm, ideate, and iterate as needed
• Work in collaboration with key project team members, including user experience researchers, product owners, tech leads, developers, strategy, PM, and UX
• Be a passionate advocate for the user, ground ideas in data driven solutions by partnering with our User Experience Research team to incorporate customer insights and principles throughout the creative process and still be bold enough to let design intuition guide you
• Ensure adherence to design best practices, standards, brand consistency
• Critical understanding of digital graphic design, typography, and interface design guidelines, practices, and best practices

Qualifications

• 0-3 years UI / Interaction experience designing consumer facing applications, websites and mobile experiences
• Ability to simplify and turn complex interactions into intuitive user experiences
• Exceptional skills in ideation, sketching, concepting, brainstorming, and UI asset production
• Ability to create both low fidelity usable prototypes
• Fluency with design tools, most notably Photoshop, InDesign, Ilustrator, OmniGraffle, Invision and/or other prototyping software
• Introductory knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Introductory knowledge and/or experience working in agile product development
• Introductory knowledge and/or experience designing responsively across devices
• Introductory knowledge and/or experience designing for multiple devices and platforms, understanding responsive layouts and how to optimize design for flexible layout treatments.
• Excellent relationship management, verbal & written communication skills
• Clear and confident communicator with an affinity for visual storytelling
• Capacity to take ownership of tasks, and drive projects through to completion
• Clear and demonstrable attitude of emergence – the drive to develop oneself and the hunger to innovate and stay current in the industry
• Strong portfolio showing breadth of UI Design work
• Keen sense of humor

Additional Information

To Set up Interview please contact

Vishwas Jaggi

973-475-7482