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ID #17279684
State New Jersey
City Princeton
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Wolters Kluwer
Showed 2021-07-25
Date 2021-07-24
Deadline 2021-09-22
Category Architect/engineer/CAD
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Senior User Experience Engineer-Designer

New Jersey, Princeton, 08540 Princeton USA

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Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information services. Professionals in the areas of legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance and healthcare rely on Wolters Kluwer's market leading information-enabled tools and software solutions to manage their business efficiently, deliver results to their clients, and succeed in an ever more dynamic world. Wolters Kluwer combines deep domain knowledge with specialized technology. Our portfolio offers software tools coupled with content and services that customers need to make decisions with confidence. Every day, our customers make critical decisions to help save lives, improve the way we do business, build better judicial and regulatory systems. We help them get it right.

We are searching for a Senior User Experience Engineer to join our team. We are open to remote employees, preferably in the Tri-state area.

Reporting to a Manager of User Experience, the Senior User Experience Engineer will be responsible for the overall user experience for user facing products and solutions leveraging our UX best practices including our Design System.

By utilizing proven UX design practices and principles and providing appropriate input to the requirements and development process, this senior user experience practitioner will play the key role in creating intuitive, learnable and memorable applications that provide unique competitive advantages for Wolters Kluwer. This position will participate in the transformation of application design and development to more user-centered processes.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Represent the "User Experience", translate customer requirements into defined specifications and inspire the implementation teams to develop the right product
  • Participate in the definition and deployment across the organization of a user-centered design and development process, including usability testing throughout the development cycle. Establish user experience design guidelines and best practices. Oversee the successful implementation of processes and practices.
  • Integrate business requirement driven product design into a cohesive user experience
  • Understand target customer's needs, tasks, and goals and translate them into creative concepts and functional components using techniques such as Contextual Inquiry.
  • Guide technical and business teams in user-centered design principles. Plan and execute projects by applying a user-centered design framework.
  • Plan and execute contextual user research, user testing to develop a clear picture of user objectives, goals and needs and evaluate the effectiveness of concepts and designs throughout the development cycle.
  • Create, maintain and confidently present all experience architecture deliverables e.g user scenarios, task flow diagrams, customer journeys, service blueprints, sitemaps / navigation schemes / taxonomies, wireframes, interaction outline/specs and content guidelines.
  • Design, plan and facilitate workshops with business stakeholders, colleagues and/or users to elicit requirements, brainstorm solutions and gain consensus.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders, business analysts, project delivery teams and development teams to establish project goals and success metrics.
  • Ensure all allocated work is completed on time and within budget - escalating time or budgetary issues to the relevant project manager before costs are incurred.
  • Develop user personas and scenarios to clarify results of user research and focus the team's design efforts on the needs of key users
  • Analyze expert customer reviews, competitive benchmarking and market research
Key Requirements:
  • 5 + years of experience as a User Experience Designer/Architect, Interaction Designer, User Interface Designer, Information Architect, or similar role
  • Experience leading user-centered design activities
  • B2B web software application design experience
  • Contextual Inquiry and design experience
  • Experience with usability testing, alpha/beta testing and user acceptance testing
  • Experience in interpreting research, listen and ask the right questions, and be absolutely relentless in your pursuit of excellence.
  • Can lead a project team and facilitate the work of others.
  • Experience working in distributed, collaborative teams and working directly with development groups for the implementation of designs
  • Experienced with design best practices, information architecture and design as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
Online Portfolio (required)
  • Portfolio should demonstrate a track record of developing simple and elegant user interfaces.
  • Candidate should be prepared to speak about the processes used to develop these solutions and the specific role that s/he played in the development of each site.
Technical Skills
  • Sketch, Figma, InvisionApp, Abstract, Adobe Creative Suite
  • Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Solid understanding of HTML5/CSS3 and front-end frameworks
Travel requirements

Position requires some travel, domestic and international, on a regular basis, comprising no more than 20% of total days worked.

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