Senior UI/UX Designer

Job Description

UI/UX Designer role to the team

Responsibilities:
* Participate in user research and testing, including user interviews, surveys, and usability testing, alongside the User Research team, to gain insights, understand behaviors and preferences that support improvements
* Analyze qualitative and quantitative findings and translate into actionable designs that improve user experience
* Identify and define user personas, user flows, and journey maps to inform and support design decisions
* Formulate clear strategies for components, sections and journeys based on research and analysis
* Create wireframes, prototypes and interactive mock-ups to effectively communicate design concepts and user interactions
* Demonstrate knowledge and/or experience with Design Thinking
* Provide UX and UI evaluations of Viking’ existing and new web-based products
* Develop information architecture, navigation models and interaction models that align with user needs and business goals
* Collaborate with development teams to ensure feasibility and implementation of design concepts
* Demonstrate an ability to come up with innovative ideas, solve problems creatively and shape these into visually compelling, aesthetically pleasing, and intuitive user interfaces that center around customer needs
* Complete UX design work that adheres to best practice, based on brand guidelines and design systems
* Create high-fidelity UI designs, including layouts, typography, color schemes, and iconography
* Expand on Viking’ Design System by improving or adding components, and clearly documenting
* Support an agile design delivery process alongside Product Owners, Business Analysts, Front & Back-End Web Developers, Marketing and other stakeholders to ensure accurate implementation of designs and maintain design consistency throughout the product lifecycle
* Put together the UX/UI storyboard, alongside the wider team
* Conduct usability tests and gather user feedback to validate design decisions and identify areas for improvement
* Iterate and refine designs based on user feedback, usability findings, and data-driven insights
* Stay up to date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging UX/UI technology trends

Mandatory Skills Description:
* Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent required
* 3+ years of relevant experience in UI and interaction design for enterprise level web and mobile products in an eCommerce environment
* Strong background and constantly up-to-speed on current UX/UI principles and best practices
* Superb communication and social skills to convey design concepts clearly across the organization
* Proven ability of capturing business requirements and objectives, successfully translating them into designs that meet customer needs
* Confidence working on complex web applications with B2B and B2C focused product UX/UI
* Experience developing platform agnostic and responsive product interfaces
* Familiar with HTML, CSS, JavaScript concepts and modern browser capabilities
* Experience interating fast in creating low fidelity design to solve customer needs.
* Ability to translate low fidelity design to interactive prototype in design tools.
* Extensive experience in designing rich user experience for financial data and workflow.
* Experience creating visual and design for presentation, banner, and system diagrams.
* Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects and deadlines
* Familiarity with variety of user research techniques
* Experience working in an agile delivery environment alongside web development teams, and in a highly collaborative manner
* Strong working knowledge of tools such as Sketch, Abstract, Miro, Figma, and associated design and wire-framing tools
* Demonstrable UX skills with a strong portfolio demonstrating wireframes, user flows, and research
* Knowledge of design frameworks such as bootstrap
* A pro-active, determined person, with a desire to work within a cross-functional team
* Fluent knowledge of English, spoken and written.

Nice-to-Have Skills:
* Angular/React experience