User Experience Jobs
Job Description Insights
Consistent Themes
Most UX employers are seeking multi-disciplined individuals who can balance a variety of tasks by wearing many (job roles) hats. Ideal candidates are able to gather and create requirements from a user’s perspective, work with UX/UI and product teams to understand and overcome existing problems, and speak with users to learn more about their needs and concerns though client surveys, persona developments and user-testing. These individuals will also be able to design user interaction, user flows, wireframes, and create prototypes to solve complex problems based on user research and business goals.
Common Skills
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Axure, Sketch and Adobe Creative Suite
Recognized Job Titles
· User Experience Researcher
· User Experience Designer
· User Experience Specialist
· User Interface Designer
· UX/UI Designer
· Mobile UX Designer
· Design Project Manager
· Designer
· UX Architect
· User Experience (UX) Information Architect
· User Experience (UX) Analyst
· UX Strategist and Researcher, Digital Marketing
UX Job Descriptions by Company Type
Start Ups
1. Title: User Experience Researcher/ Designer
Company: Emprix Billerica, MA
http://www.startuphire.com/job/user-experience-researcher-designer-billerica-ma-empirix-368405
Job Description: We are adding a new and exciting role for a User Experience Researcher/Designer to join our growing UX team! You will work closely with users, customers, and team members throughout the organization to help design and build the next generation of the Empirix software products.
You will be providing UX design guidance, knowledge of industry trends and best practices, and time/task management skills to multi-disciplinary teams within the organization. Working with SMEs, Product Managers, Engineers, QA, tech-writers, Sales, Marketing, etc., you will help unify and evolve the Empirix product suite. This position requires a deep understanding of the user-centered design process, including UX project planning, user research/testing, information architecture, and interaction design.
2. Title: User Experience Specialist
Company: Getaround San Francisco, CA
http://www.startuphire.com/job/user-experience-specialist-san-francisco-ca-getaround-357544
Job Description: We’re looking for a driven User Experience Specialist to inspire our Creative team while supporting Product and Marketing projects. Along with the design team, you’ll be a key contributor to the end-to-end experience of our website, mobile applications, and growth campaigns. Your work will be integral in leading new product decisions while driving our success in the car-sharing marketplace. By shaping the user experience of our products through testing, UX patterns, information architecture, user story mapping, and guidelines; you’ll be a focal point for solving complex interaction problems and contribute to product decisions and strategy.
3. Title: User Experience Designer
Company: Belkin Corporation Los Angeles, CA
http://www.startuphire.com/job/user-experience-designer-los-angeles-ca-belkin-corporation-377824
Job Description: Bring it to life. You will convert business requirements into pixel perfect designs; bringing them to life with a variety of usability techniques.
Create it. You will create mockups, user journeys, wireframes, and prototypes.
Collaborate it. You will work hands on with Product Marketers, Designers, Developers, Testers and Users, to ensure the design is aligned to the business/user needs and implemented as designed.
Balance it. You will balance the urgency of business priorities with the importance of product consistency and interface usability.
Own it. You will take on the overall responsibility for the UI / UX design of the platform, ensuring a clean, elegant user interface that places the user at the center of the design.
Build it. You will take new features from concept and wireframe stage through to mock-ups and then final interfaces.
Test it. You, along with the rest of us, will be a user of the thing that we create together. We will be our own worst critic so our users? Won’t have to.
4. Title: User Experience Designer
Company: BioIQ Santa Barbara, CA
http://www.startuphire.com/job/user-experience-designer-santa-barbara-ca-bioiq-378910
Job Description: BioIQ is seeking a User Experience Designer who will create compelling and innovative design solutions for our healthcare mobile and web platforms. The User Experience Designer will work closely with Product and Engineering teams to ensure our user experience is best in class.
5. Title: User Experience (UX) Designer
Company: Revionics Austin, TX
http://www.startuphire.com/job/user-experience-ux-designer-austin-tx-revionics-376900
Job Description: Are you looking to create a new paradigm, have a history of success and want to provide game changing design for a remarkable customer experience?
Revionics is looking for a versatile user experience designer who is fluent in information architecture, interaction, and visual design. You will collaborate with product managers and other interdisciplinary teams to gather and understand key business strategies and user needs, and translate the strategies and needs into compelling design solutions. We see design as beginning with the conception of the product and iterating throughout the release cycle, not a veneer to be applied at the end.
In-House Teams
1. Title: In-House UI Designer
Company: First Base Gloucester, UK
https://www.uxjobsboard.com/job/in-house-ui-designer/
Job Description: This is a great opportunity for a skilled designer who’d like to further their UI skills, or a highly experienced UI/UX Designer to join an innovative software company in Gloucestershire. You’ll design and develop customer UIs for specialist web applications, create and refine prototype digital services and maintain and develop our own web site.
We specialize in digital web applications so you need at least 2 years’ experience; preferably to include both web sites and web applications UI design. Familiar with HTML, CSS, Javascript and WordPress and a willingness to learn new technologies. are all prerequisites. We are looking for good team players who can combine creativity and pride in the quality of their work with working to budgets and timelines.
2. Title: User Experience (UX) Designer
Company: NetApp Sunnyvale, CA
Job Description: NetApp User Experience (UX) Designer works as part of a team that supports and enhances NetApp’s world-wide business processes, systems and customer/user experience. The ideal candidate will utilize strong user experience competencies and functional business expertise to identify, evaluate and develop user experiences that optimize design while keeping in balance with technology capabilities, timelines and budget. To do this successfully this person will work closely with cross-function teams to understand business needs, and IT development to provide solutions. Solving business process requirements with UX design options and communicating their benefits and trade-offs to stakeholders and team members are essential to your success in this role. Project and task management skills and a customer service orientation are crucial to this role.
User Experience and Business Essential Functions:
User Experience (UX) Designer expertise will primarily be on our commerce platform for configuration, quoting and ordering of NetApp products, however, they also may work with Sales, Finance, Marketing and other functional areas as required.
3. Title: UX/UI Designer
Company: Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA
http://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4e2c3561448bb834&q=in-house+ux&tk=1aprg5or0547dcgo&from=web
ArtCenter College of Design is looking for a UX/UI Designer to join our Marketing and Communications team. We are seeking someone with a forward-looking design sensibility who can collaborate with our team’s other design, writing and web production staff to produce compelling user experiences for various digital media platforms. An active interest in the possibilities of interactive design and the ability to enable and enhance user experience are essential. The ideal candidate will have experience in front-end web development and an interest in exploring the creative potential in coding.
4. Title: UX Designer
Company: Shipwire Sunnyvale, CA
http://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a8f88bec1378bbbb&q=in-house+ux&tk=1aprg5or0547dcgo&from=web
The UX Designer will be responsible for using user-centered design principles to design experiences that solve challenging problems. You will ideate on new and innovative concepts and develop wireframes and specifications. You and your visual design partner will design new systems and keep up with the current one. You will be working in-house with a unique opportunity to incubate and deliver the final product unlike other design teams that you may have been part of. You will work on a wide range of challenging commerce and logistics problems with other design team members and product managers.
5. Title: User Experience Designer
Company: Turn, Inc. Redwood City, CA
http://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=977c7dd331de8ae2&q=in-house+ux&tk=1aprg5or0547dcgo&from=web
Turn, Inc. seeks a user experience designer to re-imagine our industry-leading programmatic advertising platform. A successful candidate will have strong background in all aspects of UX design, from IA to UI as well as an ability to apply strategic design thinking to business goals. The candidate is a hands-on UX designer and will be responsible for delivering the full stack of user experience design deliverables, interacting with product management, engineering, qa, program management groups as well as gathering valuable user insights with in-house and external customers. A passion for data driven products and business intelligence is a strong plus. The individual will be comfortable working with senior members of the management team and engineers in interactive design sessions.
The User Experience Designer will help shape the future of Turn, Inc’s products with a strong focus on simplicity, ease of use, and focus on the specific user personas. The individual must have a growing track record of defining concise and distinctive user centered solutions through an iterative design process as well as synthesizing input from multiple stakeholders including product management, account management and sales, engineering, and executive management. The User Experience Designer will work closely with the Product Manager, User Experience and Platform to bring a singular focus on the end users, their tasks and goals, and the context of their natural habitats. Specifically, this candidate will work on products focused in the audience analytics area of Turn’s platform.
Large Corporations
1. Title: UX Designer
Company: Synechron Chicago, IL
Job Description: Our growing UX team is looking for a passionate User Experience (UX) Designer that is experienced designing responsive web applications, can translate qualitative and quantitative data into useful and usable experiences and is up-to-date on the latest trends. You will be expected to work independently as well as collaboratively to deliver insights and designs that shape the future direction of the company. This positions reports to our
2. Title: UX Strategist and Researcher, Digital Marketing
Company: workday Pleasanton, CA
http://www.workday.com/company/careers/job_description.php?id=JR14345&source=indeed#.V6vNz5MrIb0
Job Description: The UX Strategist will work within Workday’s Digital Marketing Optimization team to deliver data-driven user experience enhancement programs that produce tangible business outcomes. The UX Strategist will work on projects for corporate websites, campaign landing pages and other externally facing digital experiences. She/he will play a critical role in developing plans and research to support A/B testing, usability studies, personalization and other optimization activities. Experience developing and leading usability studies and leveraging analytic data to drive digital experiences is a must.
The UX Strategist should possess exceptional ability to analyze and study complex and technical user challenges to support the creation of clean, focused, user-centric solutions.
3. Title: Director, UX Design
Companu: Travelers Hartford, CT
Job Description: The Director of UX Design directs the strategy, planning, and execution of information architecture, interaction design, and visual design activities across eBusiness initiatives. The ideal candidate is passionate about creating usable, beautiful, and scalable solutions and committed to leading and nurturing a team of designers that share those values. In this role, you will help define and evolve enterprise standards and best practices as part of the Experience Design Center of Excellence. This includes responsibility for leading the creation of the Experience Design Toolkit, inclusive of Travelers enterprise design language, principles, processes, research, and code assets.
4. Title: User Experience (UX) Analyst
Company: JAven Technologies Eagan, MN
Job Description: Client is looking for a User Experience Analyst to help evolve the Website’s User Experience and Design Pattern Library. This contract position will be responsible for supporting global activation activities, including participating in client meetings, creating flows, wireframes. Additionally, this role will be instrumental in the maintenance and evolution of the Design Patterns that drive the website’s experience. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of experience creating site maps, flows, wireframes, has conceptual familiarity with design patterns, and be comfortable working independently or as part of a team. This position reports into the Customer Experience (CX) team within Corporate Marketing & Sales.
5. Title: User Experience (UX) Information Architect
Company: MARCOMM St. Paul, MN
https://marcomm.prevueaps.com/jobs/31669-18358.html
Job Description: MARCOMM Inc., is looking for a UX Information Architect to help evolve the client’s User Experience and Design Pattern Library. This contract position will be responsible for supporting global activation activities, including participating in client meetings, creating flows, wireframes. Additionally, this role will be instrumental in the maintenance and evolution of the Design Patterns that drive the UX experience. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of experience creating site maps, flows, wireframes, has conceptual familiarity with design patterns, and be comfortable working independently or as part of a team. This position reports into the Customer Experience (CX) team within Corporate Marketing & Sales.
Agencies
1. Title: UX Architect
Company: Agency Oasis Boston, MA
http://justuxjobs.com/job/5739/ux-architect-at-agency-oasis/
Job Description: The Experience Architect (XA) is responsible for information architecture, user / data flows, building out prototypes and user research. Working in close collaboration with the Dir. Of Experience Design the XA will contribute to and develop a broad range of architecture, interaction and testing documents, while driving continuous tactical improvements in product craftsmanship and user experience.
The XA’s focus is always on the needs of the customer and how to best balance those with the business goals and inevitable technical challenges. They are constantly advising clients and our internal team to engage with customers by conducting user testing and research to ensure the project’s strategy aligns with their users’ goals. The XA is an advocate for simple and intuitive experiences and is always thinking like the user while balancing the restraints of the project environment in order to arrive at the best possible solution.
2. Title: Designer
Company: Electronic Ink Philadelphia, PA
http://justuxjobs.com/job/5506/designer-at-electronic-ink/
You may have designed your last marketing communications web site! Apply your valuable design skills to new types of challenges like improving the operations of a hospital, streamlining a government agency’s processes or helping people see important messages in a sea of data. Our everyday challenges have always come from within the operations of some of the world’s most complicated businesses. You will work side by side with design researchers, our clients’ own business experts and technologists to explore better ways of doing business and designing systems that allow people to work better.
In the agency world you may have helped people navigate e-commerce. At Electronic Ink, you may help someone save a life.
3. Title: UX Designer
Company: Creative Circle Austin, TX
http://justuxjobs.com/job/5323/ux-designer-at-creative-circle/
Do you consider yourself a gamer? Would your dream job be to work for a company creating the visual style for popular global web based video game sites? Do you know someone that would be perfect for this type of job?
Our client, an agency in Austin, TX, is in need of a FULL TIME UX Designer to lead the creation of their web and mobile gaming sites.
This job would require relocation to Austin, TX.
The ideal candidate focuses is exclusively a UX Designer and not a UX/UI hybrid. This UX Designer has a background in UX research as well as a core focus on telling a story with empathy.
The ideal candidate will also be a true gamer and will know what it takes to create a positive web experience for gamers visiting and interacting these websites. You will shape the end-to-end web experience including the visual style and hierarchy of information.
4. Title: Design Project Manager
Company: Wipro Digital Bangalore, India
http://justuxjobs.com/job/5248/design-project-manager-at-wipro-digital/
Job Description: Wipro Digital is seeking a Design Project Manager who has experience managing projects in a design agency setting or otherwise managing design deliverables in teams comprised of user researchers, UX designers, usability analysts, content strategists, prototypers etc. This person is tactical, organized, and a positive individual who will play a key role in keeping the project intake process straight, validate project engagement parameters, set up war rooms on and offline, and ensure that the right resources are committed at the right point in the conversation. The Design Project Manager will own day to day projects schedule, manage project costs, timelines, and quality while remaining flexible and focused on creating the best creative solutions.
5. Title: Mobile UX Designer
Company: Prolific Interactive New York, NY
http://justuxjobs.com/job/5198/mobile-ux-designer-at-prolific-interactive/
Job Description: We’re looking for a collaborative, organized UX designer well-versed in mobile application design and the digital realm who will serve as the user advocate for the team, take ownership of the UX process, and champion user-centered design throughout the company. You must be an effective interviewer who is excited to digest and understand complex qualitative data from user interviews and user testing sessions, and have experience working closely with a Visual Designer to create flows, design wireframes, and build prototypes to explore and communicate concepts to the rest of the team.
