Associate UX Designer

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Forget what you’ve heard about breaking into the industry.

At Critical Mass, your inexperience is an opportunity. Learn from the best in the business, work with real clients, and grow with a company that’s committed to seeing you thrive. Our Trailhead program is the start of something epic.

This is your chance at a full-time permanent role at Critical Mass. During your initial 12-weeks, you will embark on a custom-built learning journey to understand what we do, who we are, and how we make award-winning work with our clients. You will attend exclusive skill-building sessions spanning professional development, leadership, innovation, and diversity & inclusion. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to attend offsite socials, masterclass workshops, and guest speaker events with the rest of your Trailhead cohort.

Our goal is to integrate you into the amazing work we do here at Critical Mass, and support you as part of the team so you can grow your career with us! Who are we? We're Honest, Inspired, Driven, Purposeful, Real and Equal.

Our Winter 2023 Trailhead Cohort commences January 16, 2023.

Apply before September 30, although screening and interviews may start prior to this date.

As an Associate User Experience (UX) Designer, you determine the user experience of our clients’ digital products. You’re driven by a passion for designing experiences that display empathy for end-users and help our clients achieve their business goals.

Organizing content, developing information architectures, documenting scenarios and use cases, and delivering detailed wireframes and functional specifications is your day-to-day. Most importantly, you produce a variety of design solutions for a given problem and own the execution of key deliverables during the product development process.

You Will:

Receive high-level direction and produce detailed wireframes, visual compositions, and prototypes to communicate design intent and action upon client and user feedback.

Draw insights from data provided by web analytics and research studies and turn those insights into tangible design solutions

Collaborate with internal and external engineering teams on all the details that make an experience delightful, through the creation and maintenance of design systems or design languages, documentation, and interaction specifications.

Manage time effectively and execute according to commitments.

Focus on growing as a designer, soaking up the art of how to effectively sell design, learning how to use a variety of tools, practices, processes, and where they fit into the workflow

You Have:

Bachelor's degree preferred, with multidisciplinary background such as psychology, computer science, information sciences, human/computer interface design or commerce/business.

Strong portfolio of work demonstrating creative thinking, problem solving, process, and quality.

Effective communication skills, both orally and in a variety of written and diagrammatic forms.

Proven interpersonal skills, client relation skills, and ability to work in a team environment.

Ability to provide examples of creative thinking and solving challenges with intuitive and engaging design solutions.

Thorough, detail-oriented, and highly organized working style with the ability to multi-task and meet tight deadlines.

Flexibility and adaptability to faced-paced and changing environments.

High proficiency in the use of tools such as Sketch, Omnigraffle, InVision, Principle, and Axure as well as Keynote, Powerpoint, and Adobe Creative Suite.

Familiarity and experience working with WCAG 2.0 A/AA standards.

Critical Mass’ Hybrid Work Expectation for the Trailhead Talent:

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, on-boarding, and employee experience possible! Our Trailhead Talent are the future of our organization and we want to set you up for long-term success. In effort to do so, we’d like to establish the expectation that you plan to work from an office on Tuesdays & Thursdays. The ask stems from our want to:

Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning

Improve collaboration and team relationships

Increase employee engagement

This hybrid model balances the need for individual flexibility while maintaining the relentless customer focus we provide at CM. We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns so we can help navigate accordingly.

If you have questions you can email: trailhead.recruiting@criticalmass.com

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you are an individual with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to

accommodations@criticalmass.com

Company info

Critical Mass Inc
Website : http://www.criticalmass.com