Job Title:
Senior UX
Job Description
The Senior UX Designer is a strategic thinker who has an excellent understanding of research and design best practices, leading and/or assisting with the creation of the best digital experiences. You will define a strategic and design approach that puts users first, while catering to key business goals and drives single and/or cross platform experiences across the digital ecosystem; along with taking ownership of research and user experience design approach, strategy, design and delivery and working closely with UX Leads on large scale projects.
Key Responsibilities
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Lead and/or assist with conducting effective user and market research, which includes heuristic analysis, competitive/market analysis, user/stakeholder interviews, analytics assessment and the creation of personas/user journeys.
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Lead on-site and off-site discovery workshops to capture key business goals, requirements and vision for the future state experience.
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Provide guidance and take ownership of conducting content audit, analysis and help define the navigation model and information architecture for complex solutions.
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Lead and/or assist with defining user flows, design concepts and detailed design solutions.
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Work closely within a cross discipline team to brainstorm, ideate, and iterate as needed.
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Lead and/or assist with driving the approach for usability testing, analyzing results and extracting design recommendations.
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Understand and integrate analytics data to inform the strategy and design solution.
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Work with front-end developers to collaborate and push the envelope on native applications and responsive web design solutions.
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Be an integral part of our experience design team, continually helping to define innovative experience design solutions, staying up to date on the latest design and technology trends.
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Manage time effectively for yourself and your team to ensure meeting internal and client specific deadlines.
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Ability to work and lead a team within a fast paced, agile environment while not compromising on the high quality of thinking, approach and deliverables.
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Mentor and manage UX Designers. Provide guidance, support as needed. Assess performance on a regular basis and develop actions plans that support professional development and career progression as per Catalyst’s career development framework.
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Ability to manage and resolve project based and leadership based challenges in a fair, professional and effective manner.
Required Outputs
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UX assets e.g. questionnaires, interactive prototypes, information architecture and workshop materials.
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UX documentation e.g. reports, user stories and wireframes.
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Internal and client facing presentations.
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Comments, advice and expert opinion.
Personal and Behavioural
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Logical thought processes and analysis techniques.
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Commitment to accurate documentation.
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High level of interpersonal skills.
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Effective written communication skills.
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Effective verbal communication skills.
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Ability to work on up to 2 projects concurrently.
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Ability to communicate with diverse audiences, including developers, designers, senior management and clients.
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Ability to work with precision under tight deadlines.
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Personal initiative and independence in achieving outcomes.
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Ability to work effectively within a team environment.
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Willingness to accept a wide range of responsibilities.
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Enthusiastic about technology.
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Honest.
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Punctual.
Key Internal/External Contacts and Purpose
Internal
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Senior design team members to bounce ideas and for support and collaboration.
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Design team members for allocating projects, tasks, support, prioritisation and escalation (and in some cases direct line management).
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Engineering team members to collaborate on UX outputs.
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Sales team members to verify approach, provide effort estimates and commercial documentation review.
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Design Director and UX Lead for task allocation, mentoring and line management.
External
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Clients, vendors and partners to present all aspects of UX, approaches or outputs and subject immersion.
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Client’s representatives for consultation and expert opinion and advice.
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End users for direct observation purposes, workshops, focus groups and testing.
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Industry groups, representing Catalyst’s UX credentials at a local level as and when required.
Location:
AUS-Sydney – Cooper Street
Language Requirements:
Time Type:
Full time
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