[Hybrid] UX/UI Designer 1 (16032-2)

• Job Title: UX/UI Designer 1
• Job Type: 12 Months, Regular Fulltime, Hourly
• Bachelor’s Degree in related field
• 0-2yrs of relative experience
  
  

Location

• 3245 146th Place SE, Bellevue, WA
  
  

Benefits

• Medical Insurance (Health, Dental & Vision)
• Paid Time Off
• 401K
• H1B/Green Card Sponsorship for qualified employee
• Hands-on experience at global industry leader Samsung
• Opportunities for career advancement
  
  

Compensation

$34 - 36/hr

Top Three Skills

• UX Design & Research Analytical Thinking
• Strong Communication Skills (Presentation, Cross-functional collaboration, Conflict resolution)
• Project Management (Ability to coordinate and handle multiple projects and initiatives at a time)
  
  

**Not hands-on design role but heavy communication role**

*Design portfolio required to be considered. Please provide password to your portfolio*

Summary

The main function of the User Experience Designer is to work with project teams to design and deliver high quality client-centered, effective, consistent and usable interfaces.

The Samsung Mobile UX team is seeking a highly motivated UX analyst with strong project management skills. The candidate should possess comprehensive knowledge of the design cycle from research, requirements gathering, to design iteration, validation, and QA. In the role, the candidate will own the UX design aspect of a product’s development process. They will review and analyze the latest Samsung UX, deliver UX feedback with alternative designs to Samsung designers, and lead communications with North American mobile carriers as well as Samsung teams based in South Korea. In addition, they will be responsible for tracking, managing and resolving any UX related issues raised during the lifecycle of the product.

The candidate should possess a keen eye for good UX design with an ability to spot issues and generate ideas for improvement. The candidate will maintain quality from a project execution perspective, with the ability to identify risks and provide tactical support wherever appropriate. They will need to be aware of a project’s schedule well-being and risks at all times, manage meetings, anticipate roadblocks, and keep stakeholders updated with a project’s status. The candidate is expected to have excellent written and verbal communication to effectively communicate across multiple divisions and teams.

Essential & Responsibilities

• Communicate device UX (Samsung One UI) with carriers, gather feedback, work closely with designers in S. Korea to enhance Samsung device experience.
• Review and analyze UX in early phases of development and deliver relevant feedback.
• Communicate and cooperate with counterparts of internal teams such as product design, research, engineering, and marketing as well as external partners, such as telecommunication operators and external consultants.
• Ensure that the UI development results meet market (consumer) demand, technical specifications, and carrier requirements.
• Analyze UX of competing mobile devices as well as market trends in mobile UX.
• Conduct design research and propose new concepts with mockups.
• Conduct group usability studies and document results and analysis of the studies.
  
  

Skills

• Works closely with business analysts, business sponsors, project managers and IT teams to obtain and understand business requirements.
• Creates the design of user interface specifications, by applying client research, design standards, industry best practices, taking into account strategic business objectives, user needs, systems constraints.
• Participates in design review sessions with project teams, acquiring consensus and getting approvals on designs and documentation.
• Executes business acceptance test cases and testing.
• Works with the project managers to ensure that usability deliverables accommodate project timelines, budgets, technical and scope constraints.
• Contributes to the development, maintenance, and continuous improvement of efficient and effective usability methodology/process, documentation, workflow, ROI, metrics and design standards.
• Acts as a user experience advocate regarding principles of user experience and user-centered design.
• Proven understanding of user-centered design techniques & demonstrated ability to incorporate UCD principles into the architecture and design of user interfaces.
• Demonstrated ability in gathering and translating requirements from business sponsors, SMEs, users, and business analysts etc.
• Experience applying usability testing techniques and principles.
• Experience applying a web design standard
• Knowledge of web client technologies (browsers, HTML, CSS).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to articulate ideas effectively.
• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop.
• Strong ability to multi-task and meet deadlines.
• Strong detail orientation, and a passion for consistency.
  
  

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience or 1+ years with a master’s degree required. Master degree preferred in Human factors, Human computer interactions, Interaction Design, Usability engineering, Computer Science, Psychology, Information Technology.
• Deep knowledge of application architecture basic concepts, software design process, and UI/UX design deliverables.
• Experience in designing Mobile application and involvement from research to delivering design artifacts
• Strong time and project management skills under tight deadlines managing multiple projects at the same time.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams reporting to multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and strong ownership
• Design, research experience is required.
• Working knowledge of usability testing
• Knowledge/experience in working with design and communication tools: Adobe, Sketch or other prototyping tools. skilled in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word.)
  
  

Candidate will be successful in the role if they have:

• Ability to apply strong critical thinking skills to design critiques and suggest alternative solutions
• Deep understanding of design, product, UX
• Ability to accurately identify follow up action items (self-starters)
• Experience with cross-functional collaboration across multiple teams (R&D, TPM/QA, Sales/Marketing, Legal and more)
• Skill in managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Be coachable
• Great presentation and communication skills
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Excellent output
  
  

Our team of highly experienced developers offer a wide range of mobile application and software development positions. We also have opportunities in business operations and administrations, logistics, UX/UI design, and many more!

Our vision is ‘We Want to See You Grow’ to become the industry leader for both employee and company.

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