User Experience Lead

Roberts Recruiting•Cambridge, MA

About The Position

We're looking for a User Experience Lead to integrate art, technology, and engineering to identify, create, and support the client and partner interactions with our products and brand. This is a senior role requiring a unique mixture of hands on skills with a high degree of conceptual understanding. You will be able to understand and apply concepts typically devoted to both the right (creative) and left (logical) sides of the brain, eg art and engineering. In doing so you will leverage skills from one skill group in application of another (i.e. able to execute good design choices while writing HTML). It will be expected that you can easily work across disciplines (i.e. switch between writing unit tests to illustrating iconography). As a senior staff member, it will be paramount that you can communicate effectively between teams of contrasting backgrounds and skill sets and work closely with senior stakeholders as well as users, clients, and partners.

Requirements

End-to-end understanding of modern application architectures
Big picture orientation with strong attention to detail
Expert understanding of user experience as it applies to software development
Experience with source control management
Experience with RESTful API integration
Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Expert with HTML5 & CSS, React, Angular, Vue.js or similar UI framework

Nice To Haves

Experience with iOS, Android, or other Cross Platform development tools
Experience with Jenkins
Experience with Docker
Experience with internationalization and localization
Experience with accessible UI development

Responsibilities

Understand and implement CI/CD in the context of the UI for web-based technologies across all device types
Architect scalable, predictable, and maintainable technological solutions for UIs
Base expertise in frameworks against concepts instead of implementations
Define, document, and enforce coding standards utilizing industry best practices
Clearly articulate direction and expectations of the team and its members
Understand and leverage Agile principles both conceptually and applied (i.e. JIRA)
Make decisions which drive both creative and technical direction of products
Present and speak to stakeholders, customers, or investors during all aspects of product design and execution
Lead whiteboarding/brainstorming sessions through visual note taking and facilitating participant discussions
Bring new ideas and vantage points to design discussions and decisions
Understand how design and art need to work together in a practical application of usability
Create wireframes and/or prototypes to get user feedback into product design early and often
Use research when appropriate to inform design decisions
Know and use graphic programs to product visual assets