UX Research and Interaction Designer

Company: Idera, Inc.
Location: Austin
Posted on: February 20, 2021

Job Description:

Project Requirements

At IDERA we are on a mission: to help professionals see and understand their data. The User Experience team at IDERA is looking to bring on a UX Designer to define experiences and interactions that will help professionals better answer questions about their data, more quickly and easily.

We are a small, distributed team with engineering and product management from diverse backgrounds. Our product line consists of enterprise-level tools for databases, developers, and testing. Our software is mature with a well-established user base. We need a UX Designer with strong research and interviewing skills. Who
can improve our enterprise data-intensive workflows and interactions without overhauling the UI. Who is sensitive to user's current workflows and enjoys puzzles.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Performing User Research on targeted products.
• Work with Sr. UX Manager, product managers, architects and developers to improve product experiences through research and application of UXD best practices.
• Define and develop key interaction models, workflows, and wireframes.
• Create mockups and prototypes using existing design library.
• Present designs to the team and be able to explain design choices.
• Work within and help refine brand and establish product design system guidelines.
• Create effective user interface design specifications to help development.
• Attend developer demos to ensure designs were implemented correctly.
• Define strategic user research and design implementation plans.
• Advocate for UX to be added to releases with product managers.
• Walk through products and create jira tickets to improve experiences.
• Perform user research and testing, which includes recruiting users.
• Create and send surveys.
  
  Must Haves:
  
  • 2+ years of user experience, not including schooling.
  • Outstanding portfolio showing hands-on UX track record.
  • Experience designing for enterprise web applications, big data and data visualization.
  • Proven history improving user workflows and interactions.
  • Expert knowledge of Interaction Design, UI Design, User Experience best practices, usability principles, and frameworks.
  • Extensive experience building and rapidly iterating on wireframes, mockups and prototypes.
  • Experience conducting user research (i.e surveys, observational customer interviews and usability testing).
  • Able to produce user requirements and insights documentation (i.e. personas and user scenarios).
  • Knows when to apply best practices and when to perform user research.
  • Able to develop and propose a strategic research and design implementation plan.
  • Expert at using prototyping tools such as Sketch, Figma, Zeplin and InVision.
  • Experience working remote and freelance.
  • A self-starter, who is used to being the sole UX designer.
  • Able to multitask and work on multiple products at once.
  • Require very little direction.
  • Excellent communicator (written and verbal).
    Preferred skills:
    
    • Design experience for legacy enterprise desktop and web applications with extensive data.
    • Basic knowledge of Dev Ops, Developer tools, Database development, management and monitoring products including performance management and administration solutions.
    • Some basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript programming experience.
    • BA degree in HCI, Interaction Design or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
      Please note, this is not a visual design or development position.
      
      • This is an on-going contract with no end date.
      • You must be available to work up to 30 hours a week.
      • You must be able to attend meetings between 8 AM and 11 AM CST, Monday - Friday.
      • You must be fluent in speaking and writing English. We use chat and Jira for most of our communication.
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