MSD

Senior Specialist, UX/UI Design

MSD

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Rahway • New Jersey • Pennsylvania • United States

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Salary

💰 $114,700 - $180,500 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Develop and align UX strategy with business objectives
  • Plan and implement user research strategies and methodologies
  • Prepare research plans, discussion guides, and workshop materials
  • Manage and prioritize UI/UX requests for the Digital Regulatory Docs Product Line
  • Create schedules and allocate resources for prioritized UX activities
  • Mentor other UX designers and researchers
  • Conduct user research and usability testing, including heuristic evaluations, UI reviews, and user testing sessions
  • Convert findings into recommendations and insights, summarize data, and present these to the product teams, product managers, and stakeholders
  • Maintain and advocate for user-centered design standards
  • Lead design thinking workshops and focus group sessions as necessary
  • Create personas, storyboards, wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and visual mock-ups using current tools and processes
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to develop user stories and ensure design meets requirements
  • Participate in test planning and execution to verify that results meet business and non-functional requirements
  • Work with product and engineering teams to create minimally viable products, analyze user feedback, and iterate designs
  • Gather user feedback consistently to support data-driven product decisions
  • Drive product design from concept to implementation
  • Evangelize UX practices to other teams as well as the DRD product teams and colleagues

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Graphic Design, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Anthropology, Information Technology, Information Architecture, or related field
  • At least five years’ relevant experience in UX design and research
  • Ability to lead user research studies end-to-end, including planning, moderating sessions, analyzing data, documenting findings, and presenting results
  • Communication and presentation skills suitable for diverse audiences, including leadership, product managers, and developers
  • Strong organizational skills, able to prioritize tasks, work independently, and meet tight deadlines
  • Ability to establish credibility and trust
  • Effective stakeholder collaboration and strategic partnership in product decisions
  • Commitment to user-centric product development
  • Expertise in various research methodologies, including contextual interviews, field studies, focus groups, design thinking, card sorting, surveys, and usability testing
  • In-depth knowledge of user-centered design principles
  • Experience with wireframing, prototyping, and visual design
  • Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Sketch, Figma, and Mural
  • Willingness to share knowledge and learn continuously
Benefits
  • medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
  • retirement benefits, including 401(k)
  • paid holidays
  • vacation
  • compassionate and sick days

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
UX designuser researchusability testingwireframingprototypingvisual designdesign thinkingdata analysisuser-centered designresearch methodologies
Soft skills
communication skillspresentation skillsorganizational skillsstakeholder collaborationstrategic partnershipcredibilitytrustindependenceprioritizationmentoring
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer InteractionBachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Graphic DesignBachelor’s degree in PsychologyBachelor’s degree in Cognitive ScienceBachelor’s degree in AnthropologyBachelor’s degree in Information TechnologyBachelor’s degree in Information Architecture