UI/UX Designer
UI/UX Designer
Our Client - Media & Entertainment company
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Job description
Our customer is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates and distributes a large portfolio of content and brands across television, film, and streaming and is available in over 200 countries and territories and over 45 languages. Headquartered in New York, NY with more than 30 office locations in the United States.
We are seeking a UI/UX Designer on a contract basis to support their business needs. This role is 100% remote.
We need a UI/UX Designer who is great at interviewing users to understand their needs, desires and pain points, and who enjoys giving them user flows and UIs that make their lives better. Responsibilities include understanding user needs, understanding user interface functional requirements, designing user flows and UIs, contributing to the evolution of a design system and component library, and working tightly with product and development teams to deliver on those designs.
To be successful in this role, you should have experience interviewing users, user story mapping, iterative design, Figma design software experience and working in an Agile development environment. Ideal candidates will have a portfolio of professional design projects that includes work with both consumer and enterprise applications. Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
- Illustrate design ideas using user journeys, process flows and design animations
- Use and contribute to a design system and component library
- Work tightly with Product Managers to define user requirements, user journeys and low-fidelity UI mocks
- Develop high-fidelity UI designs and animations that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
- Work closely with front-end developers to provide design specs and review the build out of working products based on UI designs
- Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness, accessibility)
- Conduct design adjustments based on user feedback
- Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images
Must Have Skills/Requirements
- Portfolio of design projects
- 5+ years of UX experience
- Knowledge of Figma UI design tool
- Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
- Good time-management skills
- Strong ability to interpret user names
- Experience working with a development team
Nice to Have Skills/Preferred Requirements
- They have worked in the media industry
- They have front end development experience
- CSS experience
Available Perks (Available upon completion of the waiting period for eligible engagements): Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401k.
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.