User Experience Designer

Job Summary

*Incumbent must work from the Omaha, NE office three days per week.

We are looking to add a User Experience Designer to our team. This position plays a key role in delivering user-centered solutions that create value by supporting customer needs and team collaboration. The Experience Designer will work to creatively solve user challenges and provide simple and delightful digital experiences. This individual will apply strong problem-solving skills and demonstrate independent self-direction, while exemplifying team collaboration and open communication. They will provide design leadership and mentoring to team members involved in delivering engaging experiences from idea to implementation and through post-implementation. This individual will provide guidance to the organization on leading practices and design trends in user experience design, and how best to incorporate these practices into our development practices and experiences. They will also lead concept development, create wireframes and high-fidelity designs, develop interaction models and information architecture, and conduct design reviews to ensure a strong user experience for websites and applications in development.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Interaction Design

• Facilitate the development of use case scenarios, planning and execution of usability testing to be leveraged in the design of interactive prototypes. Champion design system updates based on user feedback, trends and best practices. Initiates conversations across design and development to align interaction patterns with user goals.
• Apply principles of information architecture to design effective content structure, organization, and user way finding.Visual Design
  • Apply existing brand guidelines and design systems to create visually cohesive and on-brand experiences. Collaborate with relevant teams to understand and incorporate overall brand strategy into design solutions.
  • Lead ideation, elaboration and sketching sessions. Distill business and customer needs into focused, understandable outcomes such as customer personas, storyboards, customer journey maps, and use case scenarios. Design wireframes and high-fidelity comps in adherence with design systems. Champion style guide updates to design system based on user feedback, trends and best practices.

Design Research

• Engage in the planning, execution and analysis of pragmatic testing scenarios. Moderate usability tests. Conduct user interviews and contextual inquiry activities. Incorporate user preferences, usability findings, and visitor data into in-flight designs.

Story / Requirements Collaboration

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to understand and balance customer needs with business objectives, articulating how design solutions will meet these requirements.
• Actively participate in the translation of user stories and business requirements into concrete, actionable design solutions and specifications.
• Proactively identify potential design challenges or opportunities arising from requirements and propose effective solutions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Cont.

Mentoring and Training

• Engage others to develop a learning environment for user experience designers, consisting of guidelines aligned with the Associations' vision, strategic initiatives, and business unit goals.
• Champions open communication and creates space for cross-functional dialogue around design priorities and constraints.

Travel Time

• 10% travel required during the day and overnight

Education Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Engineering, Computer Science or Design preferred.

Years of Experience

• 4+ years of experience in User experience designer, interaction designer, information architect or similar role. Demonstrated ability to manage small projects and the design of medium to large solutions. Provide design leadership to project teams and mentors team members as needed.
• Advanced experience using Figma.
• Candidates should be prepared to present your portfolio to showcase your experience in solving complex UX problems and creating user-centered designs.

Why Us:

For qualifying positions, we provide a competitive benefits package designed to support health and well-being, financial security, and work-life balance:

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement Plans: 401(k)
• Paid Time Off: Vacation, sick leave, paid holidays, and parental leave
• Additional Benefits: Life and disability insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), wellness programs, tuition assistance, and short-term incentive pay

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