User Experience Designer Jobs

Job Title: UX Designer

Location: Dubuque, IA, 52001

Type: ONLY on W2 contract (NO C2C)

Length: 07/17/2023 to 10/31/2024

Pay Rate – Open for discussion

*This position requires a hybrid work model requiring weekly in-office time from the Dubuque, Iowa office.

**Position requires portfolio to be included with resume. PDF and online portfolios accepted.

As a User Experience (UX) Designer for the John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group (ISG-Urbandale), you will support projects of moderate complexity through the development of User Interaction task flows, wireframes, prototypes through to final production for new and existing products.

In addition, you will:

• Create and maintain project and overall system design artifacts
• Work closely with engineering and development teams to ensure features are implemented according to specification
• Develop and implement process improvements and enhancements
• Apply knowledge of usability, human factors, and UI processes to create intuitive user experiences and assist in pre and post-development usability testing
• Collaborate with UX Engineers on solution concepts derived from user-centered system requirements

Note: A portfolio demonstrating ability to prototype and design elegant UX solutions (website URL or attachment) is required upon application.

What Skills You Need

• Two or more years of experience applying User-Centered Design principles to moderately complex interface problems
• Two or more years of experience with technology and product development processes
• Two or more years of experience working with cross-functional teams, such as: engineering, software development, marketing and business leaders
• Two or more years of visual interface design as applied to web, mobile, or in-vehicle displays
• Two or more years of experience translating customer needs into design and articulating that design to technical and non-technical team members
• High proficiency with at least two design and rapid-prototyping tools, such as: Sketch, Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe XD, or InVision to create user interfaces

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience designing for construction or agriculture in-vehicle interfaces
• Demonstrated ability to utilize prototyping, user flows, storyboards and/or existing research to provide insights to design ahead of high-fidelity design delivery
• Two years of experience with Sketch and Figma
• Experience applying design principles in terms of user flows, accessibility, visual hierarchy, and brand influence
• A strong portfolio of UI visual design, task flows, and designing to solve user problems
• Experience using UX metrics and a user-centered design process to provide insights to product engineering groups

Education (or equivalent work experience)

Ideally, you will have a degree or equivalent work experience in the following:

Bachelor's degree in a Human Factors, Graphic Design, Interaction / Visual Design, or related field discipline or equivalent experience

*** If this position may be interested to you, please email me back at [email protected] (with your most up to date resume in word format) and advise the best time and number at which you can be reached****

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