Senior UX/UI Designer and Researcher

Senior UX/UI Designer and Researcher
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

In this role you will:

• Create and orchestrate the user research strategy and translate those insights directly into actionable design solutions.
• Conduct generative research, and rapidly prototype and iterate based on those findings.
• Facilitate ideation sessions, usability sessions, and design critiques.
• Educate designers and product team members on conducting research and adhering to design best practices.
• Champion analytic tools within our products, analyze, and report while ensuring design decisions are
  - informed.
• Work with the wider UX Research and UX Design teams.
• Design within a simple,
  - centered design process, generating
  - fidelity designs ready for engineering handoff.
• Have design skills to transform ideas into creative, simple, and responsive designs under technology and time constraints.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, Design or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of combined professional experience in an applied setting, with a proven track record of significant contributions in UX Design and UX Research.
• 3+ years of
  - on experience in UX Research, including generative,
  -
  - end research, and usability studies, utilizing various methods
• 3+ years of
  - on experience in UX/UI Design, including creating wireframes,
  - fidelity prototyping, information architecture, and interaction and visual design within an established design system.
• Proficiency in Interaction Design and Visual Design and a deep understanding of scaling products using a Design System.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Anthropology, Design, or a related field.
• Experience conducting research and executing design for complex products, and working effectively with executive leadership.
• Experience managing
  -
  - end design and research projects in a large, matrixed organization.
• Strong understanding of the strengths and shortcomings of different research and design methods, including when and how to apply them efficiently during the product development process.
• Experience in a variety of product spaces, applied research and/or academic settings.
• Proven ability to communicate and translate both user research findings and design rationale with
  - functional partners to drive impact.

What Will Help You Excel?

• Experience working in healthcare, or other equally complicated domain.
• Expert proficiency using Figma (or similar prototyping/design tools), Jira, and other enterprise product management tools.
• Comfortable working in a
  - paced environment with many deadlines.