Associate Creative Director - UX

We are seeking an Associate Creative Director, UX that is passionate about brands and eager to help grow a new agency model. A model that is powered by smarter insights, and puts creativity to work in advertising, and well beyond it - influencing the entire marketing ecosystem. We believe brands should impact more than just comms, and we hope you do too.

What you bring:

• 6+ years of design experience in a consulting or in-house environment
• A strong portfolio that demonstrates your experience, storytelling, and design presentation skills
• Demonstrated experience in planning for and delivering experience projects
• Experience in reviewing existing systems and processes to identify UX issues and develop UX recommendations
• Experience in UX research, including planning, designing, and facilitating user sessions and client workshops, analyzing findings, and articulating results
• Experience in UX design, including information architecture, user and screen flows, conceptual and detailed wireframing and prototyping
• Experience with modern design tools like Sketch, Axure, Principle, Framer, and InVision
• Willingness to travel up to 30 percent (While 30% of travel is a requirement of the role, due to COVID-19, non-essential travel has been suspended until further notice)
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

• Work with our clients to understand their business requirements in the broader context of their digital strategy and advocate for the customer by developing intuitive interactions and easy-to-use interfaces
• Work closely with project managers, design, engineering, and quality assurance
• Bring user-centered design (UCD) process methods to digital solutions from concept to launch
• Clearly articulate and defend your design decisions in front of teams and clients
• Identify and execute the best methods for user research and testing within client constraints
• Work within agile methodology
• Provide strategic solutions for early stage project planning
• Independently deliver on projects and work with others on teams
• Help the team plan and run effective client workshops and client stakeholder meetings
• Facilitate effective decision-making with clients
• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, mockups and prototypes optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
• Monitor and have knowledge of wider industry UX trends and relevant technology trends

• Advertising campaign ideation, development, and execution
• Cross-channel customer engagement strategy, design, and development to include the creation of omnichannel digital experiences across web, mobile, social, physical, AR/VR, voice, gesture, IoT, and video
• eCommerce strategy, implementation, and operations
• Marketing Content and digital asset management solutions
• Marketing Technology and Advertising Technology solutions
• Marketing analytics implementation and operations
• Acquisition and engagement campaign ideation, development and execution
• Agile based, design-thinking, user-centric, empirical projects that accelerate results

• Experience with conversational UI
• Experience in augmented, virtual or mixed reality
• Motion design
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A clear passion and enthusiasm for learning and pursuing your expertise, constantly challenging the definition of what makes a good user experience