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✨ Engagement Description✨
User experience is part strategy, part research, part design. The UX designer works with key stakeholders and conducts research to understand business needs, end-user insights, and the competitive landscape, to shape the UX direction to achieve business objectives. The UX designer then creates a design based on the direction, collaborating with content writers and UI designers. The overall design should facilitate a user experience that is usable, accessible, and delightful to end-users using human-centered design principles and best practices.

✨ Top 3 Required Skills/Experience – Must-Haves✨

• Three (3) to five (5) years of experience in the following:

• User Research

• Conduct discovery and design research to inform UX direction and design
• Participate in design strategy activities that set the experience direction for products

• UX Design

• Communicate human-centered design principles and best practices via wireframes, prototypes, and other design documents using programs such as Figma (strongly preferred)
• Strong design system experience with advanced Figma component design skills (auto layout, component properties, variants, and library management)

✨ Required Skills/Experience✨

• Participates in requirement-gathering activities to identify business needs, user
• goals, and measures of success
• Visualizes concepts and design through sketches, wireframes, and prototypes to validate product concepts with users, team members, and stakeholders
• Establishes buy-in and understanding of larger UX vision through presentation of artifacts (studies, process flows, etc.)
• Experience creating and aligning to a design system — building style guides, pattern libraries, and components
• Component library management, version control, and collaboration workflows in Figma
• Ability to design components optimized for responsiveness (mobile, tablet, desktop)
• Strong understanding of component scalability — design once, use everywhere
• Plans, sets up, and executes remote or in-person usability studies
• Develops experience maps to guide user experience across all touchpoints
• Researches current design and technology trends, cognitive psychology, and human-machine interaction
• Structures, organizes, and labels information in meaningful user-friendly ways
• Iterates on designs based on user feedback
• Advocates for human-centered design through evangelization and relationship-building

✨ Preferred Skills/Experience✨

• Strong visual and interaction design skills
• Basic programming knowledge and understanding of how technical limitations affect design
• Experience leading a project and/or team; strong leadership skills

✨ Education/Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field required
• Master’s degree in related field preferred
• Extensive experience in the User Experience Design field may substitute formal education

OpTech is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, status as a parent, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics as defined by federal, state or local laws. https://www.optechus.com/eeo_self_identification/

Pay: $45.00 - $50.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• User research: 4 years (Required)
• UX: 4 years (Required)
• Figma: 4 years (Required)

Location:

• Detroit, MI 48226 (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Detroit, MI 48226