V2soft: Product Designer/UX Designer

Product Designer is needed in Dearborn, United States.

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Client: V2soft

Location: Dearborn, United States

Contract: Contractor

UX Design Responsibilities (Approximately 60% of position)

• Leads teams on User Centered Design and Lean Agile Methodology and Design Thinking.
• Prepares usability and design patterns to guide design best practices.
• Leads and facilitates UX and Accessibility training with other coworkers in written articles and oral presentations.
• Creates and supports a high-performance culture among product team members.
• Conduct user research to determine user preferences and empathy.
• Collaborate with teams to create sketches, workflows, wireframe iteration and interactive prototypes that meet stakeholder needs, can be built by developers, and show empathy for customer needs.
• Creates and refines low and high-fidelity visual mock-ups and graphical assets to be used in the prototype and development process.
• Conducts usability testing on solutions to ensure they connect with their intended audience.

Accessibility Responsibilities (Approximately 40% of position)

• Review and report on accessibility/WCAG compliance of products: internal frameworks, websites, apps, and PDFs to ensure their accessibility.
• Remediate Accessibility issues in various forms, such as PDFs, prototype designs, logo images, etc.
• Lead accessibility training for designers and present to various organizations in Ford.
• Accessibility leadership with the local Employee Resource Group (ERG) for disabilities.
• Coordination with the DEI (Disability, Equity, and Inclusion) Office and legal entities.

Degree Type:

Bachelor’s degree in one of the following: Human-Computer Interaction, Design, Psychology/Human Factors, Computer Science, Engineering, Fine Arts, Communications

Technical Skills – Must Have

• 2+ years of experience in UX Research / Usability Testing
• 5+ years of experience in Interaction Design / Prototyping /Wireframing
• 2+ years of experience in Visual Design
• 5+ years of experience in Accessibility and implementing WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines
• Experience leading others in UX and design.
• Experience with multiple design tools
• Experience in a Lean Agile / Agile / Waterfall environments
• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• Engaging facilitation and presentation skills
• Effective communication skills for relationships with product teams, business customers, and end users
• Passionate for problem-solving and committed to lifelong design learning
• Experience designing full-service consumer and/or business applications

Technical Skills – Nice to Have

• Command of modern front-end technologies and frameworks
• UX/Accessibility Certifications
• Experience with Web and Mobile Accessibility
• Experience with a global team
• Proficiency in creating custom iconography or illustrations
• Plan and conduct idea generating sessions and implement customer/end-user research plans
• Skills to facilitate teams through ideation sessions and prioritizing relevant ideas
• SharePoint design experience for upkeep of accessibility site.
• Assistive device experience (screen readers, etc.).

Salary: $35.00 - $50.00 per hour