Senior User Experience Designer

Job Description

Experience Designers at AKQA craft, concept, and deliver interfaces that make technology more natural and enjoyable to use. With expertise in design strategy, technology and brand, our design team of researchers, visual designers and user experience designers take a human-centred approach to create beautiful and meaningful brand experiences.

As a Senior User Experience Designer, your role involves exercising an intellectual curiosity, championing user-centred design processes and techniques. demonstrating a strong sense of craft, building trusted relationships with clients and collaborating with project teams to create innovative solutions.

At AKQA Melbourne, you will work in a meritocratic culture, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in their fields. You will have the opportunity to learn and grow within a creative and technically advanced team, and have access to ongoing personal and professional development. At AKQA, we are committed to your career growth, as well as to your work/life balance.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Champion user-centred design (UCD) principles and processes, ensuring outcomes meet both business and user goals.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge of all aspects of the UCD approach, with the ability to apply them flexibly across a variety of project types
• Ideation and sketching and ability to articulate concepts and ideas
• Strong experience with user flows, IA, site maps and wireframes, and with creating complex interactive prototypes at various levels of fidelity.
• Ensure user testing is conducted at appropriate intervals, so that customers validate key design decisions.
• Act as UX expert in all matters relating to retail, ecommerce, usability and accessibility.
• Help facilitate workshops with clients to support them through a participatory design process.
• Build trusted relationships with internal/external account stakeholders.
• Ensure projects and tasks are delivered on time and to budget.
• Provide UX mentorship to more junior team members.

QUALIFICATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS

• Solid experience in a user experience, information architecture or interaction design role.
• Responsive and mobile experience.
• Ability to collaborate well with others and a desire to learn and share knowledge with the wider team.
• Experience working in an agile environment within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience with software such as Axure, Invision, Sketch and Illustrator.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Relentless attention to detail.
• Experience working on large projects (or in large team) advantageous but not essential.

AKQA is an Equal Opportunities Employer, we believe that diversity is vital to AKQA’s ability to provide our clients with the best recommendations and are committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment. Your race, colour, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or veteran status have no bearing on our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.