Senior UX/ UI Designer__ REQ#3642
Datacard Group offers technologies for securing identities and safeguarding transactions in physical and digital environments. The company’s innovative portfolio now includes Entrust® authentication software platforms, bringing important new capabilities to tens of thousands of government agencies, financial institutions and other enterprises in more than 150 countries. Together, Datacard Group and Entrust issue 10M+ secure identities every day, manage billions of secure transactions annually and issue a majority of the world’s financial cards. For more information visit www.datacard.com or www.entrust.com. Follow us on Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn
Position Overview: The Senior UX/ UI Designer will define and design user experience for our software applications team. The Senior UX/ UI Designer will work side-by-side with a team of developers, product definition developers, product owners and quality assurance teams to help create the ultimate user experience. Our applications enable the issuance of credentials on Datacard’s hardware platforms, efficient management of card issuance operations and provisioning of applications on smart device tokens including Mobile.
Accountabilities
- Ability to create multiple user interface design concepts from creative briefs or draft requirements.
- Design cross platform application user experience for mobile, tablet, desktop and cloud offerings.
- Work closely with product definition and other stakeholders in driving user goals; Personas and use case development; build modular designs for scalability; Work within Agile (Scrum) process.
- Prepare deliverables for development teams to ensure flawless on time execution; Deliver wireframes, UX flows, mockups, interactive prototypes, design specs and final assets for compelling experiences.
Collaborate with a team of developers, product definition engineers and offshore developers.
Stay abreast of innovations in graphic design, technology, and digital trends.
- Create the vision for developing, communicating, and implementing the user experience and associated UI framework and assets on a range of products; follow through with the processes and tactics to implement the vision.
- As needed, initiate and manage user experience research and testing processes; Perform metrics analysis to inform design/UX optimization efforts.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree.
- Experience building designs utilizing HTML5/CSS/AngularJs, and other frameworks for cross-platform, responsive web applications including for mobile and cloud while incorporating I18N/ L10N and compliance (e.g. Section 508) requirements.
- Ability to work within tight deadlines and shift gears quickly if requirements change.
- Excellent communication, presentation and persuasion skills; demonstrated success in building buy-in for an innovative, bold, strategic vision.
- Fluent in English (other languages considered an asset) with a proven track record of presenting to and influencing senior management.
- 5+ years of experience as a user experience designer, graphic designer or similar role in a commercial software development environment utilizing Scrum process.
- Drive the development and communication of design guidelines, patterns, and libraries.
- Must have unrestricted work authorization for US
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Comp Science/ Engineering or equivalent technical degree
- Higher degree in digital design, graphic design, HCI or equivalent professional experience
- 2+ years’ application programming experience in Java/J2EE, .NET, Javascript or C++
- Demonstrated fluency in best practices for web-based and mobile information architecture and responsive design, as well as deep and broad knowledge of usability principles and techniques.
- Experience creating style guides, pattern libraries, and other design solutions that drive design across large organizations.
Datacard Group is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer
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