Spies & Assassins, the digital specialism within kbs+ (Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners), seeks a UX Lead with 7+ years of experience. 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. And, you are just as comfortable planning and overseeing projects as you are with hands-on execution.
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. In addition to day-to-day project leadership and execution, the UX Lead will also collaborate with the Director of User Experience to evolve the UX team’s design process, methodology, and operations.
Responsibilities:
- Lead 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
- Lead user experience ideation, and refine those concepts into client presentations
- Lead definition of experience requirements
- Participate in project scoping
- Document experience specifications
- Create clickable prototypes and plan/lead both informal and formal validation testing
Requirements:
- 7+ years experience designing and documenting applications or large-scale digital campaigns, involving detailed UX strategy, design, and documentation
- Shows compelling presentation skills
- Comfortable working closely with clients
- Generates documentation at a high level
- Comfortable with hand-sketching
- Leads UX threads of work and collaborates with the rest of the creative team
- 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 salary requirements to pgrizzard@kbsp.com