Positions Summary: Periscope Holdings, Inc. is looking for a Senior UX designer to help shape and design our user experience. The Senior UX designer will work closely with product managers and developers to create an excellent user experience for our customers. The Senior UX designer will study end-users to understand their problems, generate breakthrough design concepts and craft them into buildable solutions. From user research to wireframes to detailed designs and conducting usability studies, the Senior UX designer will drive the entire design process to ensure our customers realize ease of use from our products. Periscope is committed from top to bottom to create a user experience that that further separate our products from competitors. The Senior UX designer will drive the process to keep our customer experience second to none.
Responsibilities:
• Ensure Periscope's products provides a compelling user experience
• Initiate, suggest, and spearhead major UI re-factorings for a more intuitive user-experience
• Create user personas, wireframes, user stories, and high-fidelity mockups
• Collaborate with product managers and developers to design new product features
• Lead user testing to gain customer insights and optimize the user experience
• Effectively communicate research findings, designs, and design rationale
• Iterate your designs based on feedback from customers and teammates
Desired Skills and Experience
• User Interface (UI) design experience with web and mobile products
• Experience designing complex applications
• Experience designing B2B products or SaaS B2B products
• Expertise in interaction design, information architecture, and visual design
• Adept at using Axure/Balsamiq/wireframing tools and Photoshop/Illustrator for rapid prototyping.
• Proficiency designing and conducting qualitative user testing
• Experience using product analytics and A/B testing to optimize products
• Experience in an Agile software development environment
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with html/html5, css/css3, javascript and libraries (jQuery, Angular, React.js, etc.)
• Experience with Java, XHTML, JSP and JSF.
• Knowledge of writing User stories
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) or related field, or equivalent experience
Benefits:In recognition of the importance of our employees to Periscope's continued success, the company offers an outstanding package of employee benefits. These include PTO, medical, dental, STD/LTD and life insurance, all of which are effective the first of the month after thirty (30) days of employment. You are eligible to enroll in the 401(k) Savings Plan after ninety (90) days of employment. Sign up is available quarterly.