JOB Title – UX Designer
Job type- 1+ year Contract
Location – Cincinnati, OH
CREATIVE Analyst / DESIGN STRATEGIST
PROFILE SUMMARY:
• A thorough-bred designer at heart with about 5 years of experience in
the area of design
• At least 2 years of experience leading multi-disciplinary design teams
• Experience in new ways of design (agility, collaborative design, design
thinking/lateral thinking, fast-paced, business outcome-driven)
DESIGN:
• User/customer centricity; empathy, familiarity with methods of discovery, and
reflecting emotions in design
• Innovation and lateral thinking: Love for all things new and challenging,
ability to orchestrate brain storms and ideation workshops
• Appreciation for great design: aesthetic sense, interaction design skills,
information structuring abilities, excellent awareness of trends and
happenings around in the field of design and technology
• Ability to sell design and ideas through logical reasoning that are based on
end user and business centricity
BUSINESS:
• Business acumen: Ability to quickly assimilate a business situation and
abstract into a design problem. Familiarity with techniques – design thinking,
journey mapping, rapid prototyping, quick user research and validations etc.
• Preferred domain knowledge: retail, banking and financials, travel and
hospitality
• Awareness of technology: Ability to explore possibilities of new technologies
in digital experiences, awareness of productions and platforms that power
experiences in different business contexts
• Accountability for client: relationship and dialog with client stake holders,
new opportunity leads and insights, thought leadership.
WAYS OF WORKING / CULTURE
• Flexibility and agility: to work with agile formats for design; a sense of quick
thinking to accommodate changes and evolutions in design
• Team skills: Collaborative design style, guide and motivate team members
towards engagement and business goals of the client, and performance
goals in general for the company
• Propensity for exploration and risk, sense of humor/fun, design evangelist
