Freelance onsite in Chicago, local candidates only – no relo.
Publicis Sapient is seeking a Freelance Associate Director of UX with 8- 10 yrs experience system/service design to join one of our financial service clients for a long term freelance engagement. The project entails reviewing and revamping a new mobile platform.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for interaction design, task flow, behavior, and navigation design
- Ideates, sketches, and prototypes for desktop, tablet and mobile devices
- Creates UX strategy, develops customer scenarios, conducts journey mapping and collaborates on persona development
- Collaborates with Consumer Insights, Analytics/Data Science, and clients to apply data and insights to UX design decisions and to determine UX success metrics & KPIs
- Contributes to estimation, project planning, practice development and new business pitches
- Leads multidisciplinary projects and workstreams
- Accountable for estimation and scope of UX activities and deliverables
- Collaborates with Strategy, Analytics/ Data Science, Consumer Insights, Content & Copy, Visual Design and Technology
- Leads team meetings and client reviews
- Mentors team members
- Would lead/ participate in stakeholder interviews and working sessions
- Review existing application and identify areas of improvement
- Draft out current state service map and identify pain point related to process, application using working sessions with the wellington team
- Summarize current state finding, vision for future and key concepts for executive presentation
- Create concepts and high level wireframes
- Demonstrates the information architecture and interaction design skills necessary to support client work
- Actively collaborates in cross disciplinary idea generation and client co-creation sessions
- Articulates rationale for approach in the context of both business and user needs
- Defines processes and deliverables that meet project goals and are reasonable within operational, cultural and technology constraints
- Exceptional at holistic and thorough interactive solutions
- Self-managed and exceptional communication skills
Experience:
- 8-10+ years of experience working on complex software, transactional or ecommerce experiences, with medium to large-sized teams, preferably in a cross disciplinary digital agency
- Must have Experience in Mobile Service Design
- Expert with Sketch and InVision (or equivalent). Framer X is a plus.
- Led multidisciplinary sketching and ideation sessions with teams and clients
- Experienced in both agile and waterfall methodologies
- Familiar with scoping and estimating UX tasks
Qualifications
- Degree in interaction design, human computer interaction or industrial design preferred
- Degree in a related field, such as library science, graphic design, animation or architecture considered. Minor in Psychology, English, History, Anthropology a plus.
More Information
- Salary Offer or Budget NA
- Experience Level Senior
- Total Years Experience 5-10