Spies & Assassins, the digital specialism within kbs+ (Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners), seeks a mid- to senior-level Freelance UX Designer. Our ideal candidate is a detail-oriented designer with a cross-disciplinary set of interests. You have a design background, but are a problem solver at heart. Your approach to UX is lean, pragmatic, and solutions-focused.
User Experience Designers at Spies/kbs+ are involved in all stages of a project’s life, from discovery and initial brainstorming to the final launch and beyond. As a Freelance UX Designer, you will be involved in a variety of projects, across different clients. You should be comfortable jumping in mid-stream, and quickly getting up to speed on work to-date, and taking ownership of the UX thread of work.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in project discovery process and document findings
- Collaborate with teammates, clients, and third parties to craft cogent Experience strategies, including but not limited to user personas, user journeys, interaction models
- Participate in user experience ideation, and refine those concepts into client presentations
- Document experience specifications
- Create clickable prototypes and participate in both informal and formal validation testing
Requirements:
- 4+ years experience designing and documenting applications or large-scale digital campaigns, involving detailed UX design, and documentation
- Generates documentation at a high level
- Comfortable with hand-sketching
- Proven ability to multi-task and cope with quick turnaround projects
- Solid writing and visual communication skills
- Works with Sketch and InDesign, and is familiar with InVision, OmniGraffle, and Illustrator
- Knowledge of usability heuristics and relevant HCl literature
Interested applicants please submit resume, portfolio, and hourly rate requirements to pgrizzard@kbsp.com