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A UX Designer at UWM is passionate about creating elegant experiences that align business goals with user's needs. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, development teams and other members of the UX team to create the best possible user experience. This position will allow you to have wide reaching influence over the relationship between our users and UWM.WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
- Strong collaborator who enjoys working with a cross-disciplined team
- Employ use of various UX research methods for data driven design decisions
- Meet with stakeholders and development teams to understand business and functional requirements
- Create wireframes/mock-ups/reports for internal and external facing products and present to development team and stakeholders
- 5+ years of demonstrable experience in UX Design
- Strong ability to assess designs based on usability and UX best practices and communicate findings/recommendations to team members
- Experience with responsive design standards for desktop, tablet and native mobile applications
- Knowledge and experience with managing the software lifecycle and Agile environments
- Working knowledge of accessibility standards, WCAG
- Familiar with the creation of user personas, user journeys and other design artifacts
- Experience with modern design tools (E.g. Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma)
- Proficient in creating wireframes / mock-ups / live demos
- Experience with usability testing software (E.g. UserTesting, Optimal Workshop) and methods to understand user behavior (Moderated/unmoderated usability testing, A/B tests, card sorting, surveys, etc.)
- Experience in mentoring junior UX designers
- Degree in Human Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, Interaction Design
- Knowledge of creating / maintaining design systems
- Designing to brand standards / style guides
- Experience with heuristic analysis
- Paid Time Off (PTO) after just 30 days
- Additional parental and maternity leave benefits after 12 months
- Adoption reimbursement program
- Paid volunteer hours
- Paid training and career development
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- 401k with employer match
- Mortgage discount and area business discounts
- Free membership to our large, state-of-the-art fitness center, including exercise classes such as yoga and Zumba, various sports leagues and a full-size basketball court
- Wellness area, including an in-house primary-care physician's office, full-time massage therapist and hair salon
- Gourmet cafeteria featuring homemade breakfast and lunch
- Convenience store featuring healthy grab-and-go snacks
- In-house Starbucks and Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Company
- Indoor/outdoor caf with Wi-Fi