Senior UX Designer

We're growing a diverse, empowered User Experience Team within the Dell Software Group and we're looking for a talented UX Designer to help us build world-class, highly usable web applications, sites, and services.

We are

- Actively involved with the new software development initiative within Dell.

- Designing and redesigning products for users who love and depend on them daily.

- Helping to define and prioritize product requirements.

- Working with an intelligent, creative development organization that wants us here and values our collaboration.

Your strengths include

- Adapting your design process to the task at hand and the team you're working with

- Communicating your designs with just the right mix of prototype, documentation, and collaboration

- Learning quickly about software intended for expert users

- Bonding with remote team members to create strong working rapport

- Staying current about best practices, new tools and ideas, and worthwhile trends

- Sketching ideas rapidly and killing the bad ones mercilessly

- Advocating passionately for the user

Role Responsibilities

- Define and prioritize user stories and product requirements in collaboration with user researchers and product managers.

- Integrate yourself with product teams to keep abreast of development issues and actively help to solve them.

- Propose and champion new usability improvements based on research results and heuristic evaluation.

- Create sketches, wireframes, and low-fi prototypes to test ideas and iterate to solutions.

- Convey user experience to engineering and QA and ensure the implementation matches the intended design.

- Collaborate with user research specialists to design usability studies and respond to the results.

- Define and refine design systems so that UI patterns can be reused consistently within product families.

- Participate in peer design reviews and team discussions.

Requirements

- 8+ years of experience in interaction design, UI design, web application design, UX design, or human factors roles.

- Experience with user-centered design processes and the judicious application thereof.

- Four-year degree in relevant field, or in non-related field with equivalent work experience.

- Experience designing complex web applications.

- Portfolio showing samples from a track record of successful design.

-Expertise with graphic design tools and techniques.

Preferences

- Skill at creating interactive prototypes.

- Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and basic Javascript.

- Experience working on a team with other designers and developers.

- History of working successfully with remote team members.

- Experience with Agile software development processes.

- Experience with designing for internationalized/localized user interfaces.

- Excellent communication skills (written, spoken, visual).

- Attention to detail.