UX Product Designer, New York (Contractor)

Lab49 seeks a Senior UX Product Designer to work with development teams and customers, envisioning and designing desktop, web, and mobile applications, solving complex challenges in a customer-facing environment.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for every aspect of a system's user experience - the overall flow and layout of the screens, the fields and information presented, the actions and interactions that are provided, and the visualizations of the data
• Solving workflow problems, developing new ways of visualizing market data, and figuring out what tools the client needs in their solution that even they don't realize yet
• Thinking on your feet, sketching, presenting, iterating and refining ideas alongside and in front of clients
• Gaining broad exposure to many areas of our clients' businesses and also to a wide range of technologies
• Adept at quickly learning new skills and terminology and at building rapport with all sorts of end users
• Working onsite with our product and development team and partnered with a Visual Designer to collectively define the solution

Requirements

• 5+ years of solid experience in UX Design, Interaction Design or Information Architecture including an ability to define and drive the process
• Hands-on experience in user research, sketching solutions and wire-framing
• An abiding interest in and competence for solving real-world business problems
• Experience working in a fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Ability to communicate effectively and to influence client strategy, tactics, and perceptions
• Determination to succeed despite obstacles and challenges, and a positive attitude favoring achievement of goals over open-ended investigation
• Resourcefulness and independence
• Undergraduate or Graduate Degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Communication, Graphic Design or any design-related field is highly preferred

Key Skills

• Hands-on experience in user research, sketching solutions and wire-framing
• An abiding interest in and competence for solving real-world business problems
• Experience working in a fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Ability to communicate effectively and to influence client strategy, tactics, and perceptions
• Determination to succeed despite obstacles and challenges, and a positive attitude favoring achievement of goals over open-ended investigation
• Resourcefulness and independence