User Experience Designer

📋 Description

• Greenstone, a Cultura Company, makes innovative, integrated solutions and services for Ag business.

• This position will serve as the all-around designer and will possess both interaction and visual design skills.

• A successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced work environment that requires strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication.

• The candidate should have a passion for empathizing with the needs, challenges and behaviors of our customers and our business and how to solve them through design.

• Document, update, communicate and enforce user interface standards and guidelines for the development process.

• Partner with the product management team members to execute design ideas using the Lean UX (User Experience) Design process.

• Contribute to the creation of high-quality deliverables on a work stream with minimal oversight and guidance, managing work on a schedule.

• Suggest, create and execute UX research methods.

• Leverage customer feedback, in-depth site analytics, internal subject matter experts, and research findings for UX design approaches.

• Develop insightful workflows and simple solutions to complex interaction design problems.

• Demonstrate judgment in choosing appropriate deliverables, such as user stories, use cases, workflows, prioritized feature lists, conceptual diagrams, information architecture, wireframes, low-fidelity mockups and click-through prototypes.

• Write and execute user interface test cases as part of the development process (so that others can test and or automate those cases later).

• Document findings and suggestions for improvement in the issue management / backlog system.

• Drive the design and delivery of customer facing release documentation and assist with improving the clarity and usability of internal and other external documentation.

• Participate in standup meetings and retrospectives based on commitments made in sprints.

• Upon request, assist the Marketing team with web-site development by applying established UX techniques.

🎯 Requirements

• Technical College, Associate or Bachelor degree in the study of design including one of the following: Design, Information Architecture, Human Factors or equivalent project/portfolio experience.

• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating industry leading user-centered design solutions.

• Knowledge of creative tools used by designers and when to use them appropriately.

• At least 4 years of design experience.

• Understanding of UX methodologies including the ability to explain and help others follow Lean UX and design thinking workflows in an Agile software development environment.

• Experience with mobile platforms, including mobile phones, smartphones, and/or tablets, along with related popular mobile operating systems.

• Possess a general awareness of technology mediums (ex: JavaScript, HTML/CSS) including differences between them.

• Knowledge of essential channels and platforms, with experience in desktop and mobile solution design.

• Proficiency with Figma.

• Proficiency with MS Office Suite with emphasis on Excel.

• Be a team-player with an entrepreneurial mindset, with the ability to influence others with the motivation and assertiveness to bring forth new ideas and initiatives.

• Possess excellent interpersonal skills along with strong oral, written communication and presentation abilities.

• Occasionally travel to observe customers and meet with teammates and customers.

• Work hours that overlap with our customers (primarily Central time, secondarily Eastern and Mountain times).

• Clearly, concisely and compellingly communicate in English with teammates and customers.