Principal User Experience (UX) Designer

The Principal UX Designer will work closely with the Director of UX + UI, UX Researchers, and an existing team of high performing Designers to create the user experience for the core journeys and products of . You will partner closely with product owners, usability testing leads, and engineers to enhance the overall quality, value, and experience of our products and core journeys. As a Principal UX Designer you will be hands on in all aspects of user experience including: gathering and understanding business & user requirements, creating information architecture diagrams and user flows, building detailed wireframes, high & low fidelity prototypes and the creation of new concepts. The Principal UX Designer will lead the User Experience for our core set of products and journeys. Responsibilities include: • Transform ideas, business opportunities, research and creative vision into tangible products and services that provide clear, usable, useful and desirable outcomes for users • Create detailed wireframes, information architecture diagrams, user flows and prototypes • Lead and establish best practices and design thinking / process - driving best digital experiences • Lead UX design works in agile, fast moving environment – fluently deliver just in time design works for sprint cycles while enhancing the quality and experience of the products • Lead teams of UX designers through all phases of product development, ship, and iterate • Manage relationships with global business partners, brainstorm and create concepts which form the user experiences cross channel (mobile, tablet and desktop ) • Work in collaboration with key project team members, including user experience researchers, product owners, tech leads, developers, strategy, PM, and visual design • Be a passionate advocate for the user, ground ideas in data driven solutions by partnering with our User Experience Research team to incorporate customer insights and principles throughout the creative process. • Ensure adherence to design best practices, standards, brand consistency • 8+ years UX experience designing consumer facing applications, websites and mobile experiences • Innate gift to simplify • Profound capacity to turn complex interactions into intuitive user experiences • Deep and committed user empathy • Self starter –leads projects, products and teams by example • Exceptional skills in ideation, sketching, wireframing, user flows, mapping and information architecture • Ability to create both high & low fidelity prototypes improve • Fluency with design tools, most notably OmniGraffle, Ilustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Invision and/or other UX & prototyping software • Clear and current understanding of the capabilities and limitations of HTML, CSS, JavaScript & developing platforms • Demonstrated experiences launching products on javascript frameworks, designing responsive cross channel services and applications, and delivering UX works within agile production • Driven explorer to improve user needs and make life easier for the user without the user asking • Data sleuth – great skill combing through analytics and behavioral insights to generate new experiments and opportunities to improve our products and differentiate the user experience • Clear and confident communicator with an affinity for visual storytelling , knows how to communicate with team, peers, and business leads • Ability to learn quickly and provide UX leadership in a dynamic and matrixed environment • Strong portfolio showing breadth of UX Design work • Experience with service design a +! To Set up Interview please contact: Vishwas Jaggi 973-475-7482 Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs. Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence. Collabera offers a full range of benefits to its employees including paid vacations, holidays, personal days, Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, 401K retirement savings plan, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance.