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NHL - UX Designer (Temporary - 12 months)

The Role: UX Designer

The ideal candidate is passionate about UX and evidence based design, and driven to deliver delightful user experiences. In addition to a deep comprehension of usability and human factors, we seek a determined and resourceful, detail-oriented team player. The UX Designer thrives in a highly collaborative, high pressure and iterative product environment.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the design of the overall user experience of NHL Team.
• Create innovative, emotive, and fun solutions to complex UX problems within strict technical limitations and tight deadlines.
• Player First - understanding of our target audience, personas and the motivations that lead to deeper consumer engagement.
• Hands-on Architect capable of cranking out several low fidelity wirefames in a day and interactive prototypes in a couple of days.
• Conceptualize and effectively visually communicate UX ideas to get buy-in from stakeholders.
• Own UX features end-to-end including: Creative/Feature Briefs, Milestone Deliverables, Change Requests, and Bug Tracking.
• Work closely with partners to evaluate and translate research findings into actionable results.

Competencies and Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Science degree in HCI or a design-related field with Human Factors,
• 2+ years professional UX experience.
• Experience designing complex user experiences across ideally console games or variety of products and/or services with microtransactions.
• Core UX skills including human factors, psychology, UX principles, heuristics, guidelines etc.
• Takes initiative, doesn't wait to be asked and plans efficiently while avoiding analysis paralysis.
• Commanding knowledge of Wireframing and Prototyping tools (e.g. OmniGraffle, Axure, Balsamic, Flash, Adobe Creative Suite) and the ability to produce low and high fidelity solutions.
• A portfolio demonstrating a track record of successful UX leadership and high impact creative and emotional design solutions to complex problems.
• Impeccable sensitivity to user goals, wants and needs, furthermore ability to prioritize against business goals.
• Must be a deep thinker, can critically analyze UX and understands why and how it is successful.
• Experience in data synthesis and evidence based design, has experience successfully maximizing AEM.

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