The client values candidates with a strong technical knowledge and clear understanding of development workflow. A high-level sensitivity for design considerations is key, but leadership and direction of the team based on best technical practices and previous hands-on experiences are critical to the success of this position.
Start date: ASAP
Duration: Full-time Permanent
Location: Downtown Milwaukee
Key Responsibilities:
- Create sketches, annotated wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and final visual assets that illustrate site layout, navigation, controls, and content prioritization, documented and ready for handoff to the development team for implementation.
- Collaborate with product owners, content producers and other visual designers to guide each UX project from ideation to final delivery
- Direct A/B and other usability testing
- Work with advertising, marketing and editorial stakeholders to clarify goals and solidify deliverables as needed
- Lead any internal design reviews
- Partner with analytics team to monitor the performance of site features and functionalities, and spearhead data-driven UX improvements
- Introduce or modify typography, color palettes, and iconography in ways that respect the brands’ traditions while allowing them to stretch in new directions
- Work with the brands’ print art departments to establish guidelines (both technical and style) for photography and other visual elements