Interaction Designer/Visual Designer

Title : Interaction Designer/Visual Designer

Location : San Diego, CA

Contract Term : 12+ Months

Weekly 40.00 Hours

MUST BE LOCAL TO SAN DIEGO, no long distance travel.

Description

As a member of the User Experience Design team, the Designer will work with multi-disciplinary teams to strategize and apply strategic thinking to design and deliver innovative end-to-end user experiences that optimize among user needs, business goals, and technological realities for each project. Projects will include cloud-based software, and knowledge portals.

The design challenges will require rapid Axure prototyping and clearly communicating data analytics through infographics. This role will require a combination of prototyping, interaction design, and visual design expertise.

This position is extremely collaborative and requires a high degree of professionalism, communication skills, and mentoring ability. In some cases, candidates will visit hospitals to watch clinicians use the BD’s software to determine what can be designed to improve the customer experience.

This position is extremely collaborative and requires a high degree of professionalism, communication skills, efficiency, attention to detail and mentoring ability.

Responsibilities

• Drive and apply user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams
• Effectively utilize and teach relevant user experience methods, such as how to apply a corporate design language, design frameworks, problem framing, design principles, and overall design thinking
• Ability to deliver UI specifications, wireframes, workflows, and high-fidelity Axure prototypes
• Build positive, collaborative relationships across teams/groups/functions through facilitative leadership
• Collaborate with key product stakeholders to understand the customer and support product design goals for existing and new products and to ensure those goals are supported in the solution design

Required Skills

• Demonstrated track record of success designing software apps in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Ability to effectively communicate interactive and interface design data, design proposals, and product specifications and to explain the rationale behind design decisions
• Ability to concisely critique designs and to translate customer feedback into design decisions
• Strong skills in creative design tools including Axure, InVision, Adobe Creative Cloud
• Strength in responsive design, cross-platform development, and at least a basic understanding of HTML and CSS
• Success in following, applying, teaching, and maintaining a company product design language guide and ensuring that colleagues apply elements accurately with strong design thinking behind their decisions
• Ability to and enjoyment of working closely and collaboratively with developers implementing your designs
• Proven success working in an Agile development environment and strong knowledge of how interaction and visual design are best utilized in a SCRUM environment
• Organized, self-directed, efficient, and able to manage multiple and complex projects in a timely manner
• Experience with the healthcare field and medical devices a plus
• Online portfolio available for viewing required

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in User Interface Design, Cognitive Science, or equivalent
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience working in Axure producing high-fidelity prototypes (excel in building advanced variables, repeaters and dynamic panels)