UX architect on w2 contract

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Please find below the Job description for an UX Architect with the below mentioned specifications:

UX architect

Location: Santa Clara, CA

6 Months 

Required Skill: Worked on B2C applications used in day to day vasis by public

Portfolio: Showcasing the work required with the link or sample of work

Experience:12-12 years

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Assessment

• Lead the assessment of an existing site/property for usefulness, usability, visual design, content, and branding.

• Identify strategic opportunities for competitive advantage based on findings.

• Lead participatory design/user testing sessions.

• Present findings to senior clients.

• Utilize low-fidelity, medium-fidelity, and high-fidelity prototypes across the different stages of the design process.

Discovery

• Analyze, synthesize, and organize research data into meaningful themes, categories, and visually compelling frameworks and behavioral models.

• Identify opportunities to create business value and improve the user experience, based on user research; organize opportunities into visually compelling matrices or maps.

• Lead participatory requirements gathering sessions and manage debrief process.

• Lead stakeholder interviews, including: conducting, preparing notes, and analyzing findings to understand key success factors for a project or pursuit.

• Facilitate user scenario planning sessions with both internal team and clients

• Lead development of user scenarios from personas and segmentations that can be clearly tied to business objectives and user needs; integrate scenarios with other related deliverables such as concept models, process flows, opportunity maps, and wireframes.

 Experience & Interaction Design

• Lead the creation of visually compelling representations of the solution's high-level interaction, navigation, and organization design (i.e., concept models).

• Create (and lead the development of) comprehensive sitemaps for large-scale solutions.

• Present deliverables to senior clients.

Project Management

• Create accurate design plans to address the time and tasks required to complete a track of work (

• Lead a track of work in the development of a quality solution; track progress according to the plan created for the project (e.g., conduct design reviews and creative status meetings as needed). 

Client Management

• Manage operational level client meetings.

• Plan and execute client workshops

• Act as the primary POC/facilitator for planned (regular) client meetings

SKILL REQUIREMENTS

Skill expertise:

• Certification within their area of specialization is required. Strong leadership and communication skills to effectively client accounts and multi-track sapient teams. Candidates must be versed in user-centered design methods and techniques

• Proficient to expert in: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Visio, Microsoft Office etc….

• Excellent analytical and process-oriented skills

• Ability to work collaboratively on multi-disciplinary teams

• Experience in working on multiple projects simultaneously. Prior experience in a consulting firm preferred

Personal Attributes: a. Strong and innovative approach to problem solving and finding solutions b. Excellent communicator (written and verbal, formal and informal) c. Flexible and proactive/self-motivated working style with strong personal ownership of problem resolution d. Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently with minimal supervision. e. Ability to prioritize when under pressure

EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree preferred in design-related discipline: Interaction, Information or Interface design; Human-Computer Interaction; Design Planning; Graphic Design; Communications.