User Experience Designer

Seeking a UI/UX Designer for a client of ours in Milwaukee, WI. If you are interested, please send your resume to Corinne at Description: What's the role? This Experience Designer will be a part of the Digital Innovation team that is based out of the Cream City Labs space in downtown Milwaukee, WI. We work in small cross-functional pods of product managers, engineers, and designers evaluating short-term experiments to help the rest of the company innovate. Your responsibilities within the pod will be to help take an idea, evaluate the opportunity, and develop the experiment to test if it is a viable addition to the client's ecosystem. Our ideas are sourced from around the company through employee submissions, hackathons, emerging trends, and senior leadership. What you'll be doing: • Working in a fun environment where experimentation isn't just encouraged it's a way of life. • Developing experiments and creating designs that support the experiment to target an audience's problem we are trying to solve. • Collaborating with a pod that includes a product manager and engineers to take a project from research all the way to prototype. • Incorporate multiple perspectives into mockups & prototypes utilizing best in class tools, methods, and processes. • Driving usability, accessibility, responsiveness and other properties through design execution. • You may be working on more than one short-term experiment at a time. • Advanced skills in problem-solving and familiarity with technical constraints and limitations as they apply to designing for platforms such as desktop and mobile, Android and iOS. • Ability to navigate ambiguity to drive the design cycle and multitask in a fast-paced environment Bring Your Best! What this role needs: • At least 2 years' of industry experience required • You have experience working on a diverse set of complex, highly transactional, data intensive digital products & services. • Demonstrate a well-rounded set of digital design skills with primary emphasis on interaction design and information architecture with secondary abilities in research and visual design. • You an advocate for design process and methods, and have experience teaching non-designers how they can make use of them and gain value from their practice for themselves. • While you are responsive to direction, as a UX Designer, you are learning to set your own direction in order to meet co-designed success criteria. • You are strategic and outcome oriented and present your work based on a critical eye to the business. • You have a detailed design process that is responsive to common heuristics and critical principles. • You are not only proficient in relevant tools of the trade but explore tools & tooling in order to always be ready to switch to the next best in class tool. • You use your communications and social skills to influence partners, peers, superiors, and partners, as well as to clearly communicate requirements, requests, and responses. Preferred qualifications: • Experience in a regulated industry like financial/banking, insurance, &/or healthcare Please provide a description of how this role fits into the organization and your team This Experience Designer will be a part of the Digital Innovation team that is based out of the Cream City Labs space in downtown Milwaukee, WI. We work in small cross-functional pods of product managers, engineers, and designers evaluating short-term experiments to help the rest of the company innovate. Your responsibilities within the pod will be to help take an idea, evaluate the opportunity, and develop the experiment to test if it is a viable addition to the client's ecosystem. Our ideas are sourced from around the company through employee submissions, hackathons, emerging trends, and senior leadership. What are the must haves for this role? Need to have a portfolio of previous UX Design work Experience using Figma, Adobe XD, or similar tool for prototyping What are the nice to haves for this role? Comfortable and experienced leading research calls. Has worked with a design system before. Experience working with product managers and engineers in an agile environment. What will be the work schedule? Monday through Friday. 40 hours/week. Typical 9-5 with some flexibility on that available. No expectation of after hours or weekends.EEO EmployerApex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. 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