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Job: User Experience Designer at Sandvine

Posted: March 4th, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: Jobs | Tags: | No Comments »

SandvineCompany: Sandvine
Location: Waterloo, Ontario
Type: Full time

As a User Experience Designer you will be responsible for helping define the user experience for the next generation of Sandvine products.

You will be required to perform a broad range of UX activities, as needed to support various initiatives. Depending on the project this may involve the analysis of existing products, the design and/or redesign of our product user interfaces, planning and execution of field research and usability testing, as well as helping establish standards and guidelines. Additionally, you will collaborate with other team members in a challenging and fast-paced environment.

This position is Waterloo, Ontario.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a knowledgeable and passionate user advocate.
  • Analyze products and proactively identify opportunities for improvements in the experience.
  • Design intuitive, efficient and elegant experiences for our end users.
  • Communicate design ideas and decisions effectively, ensuring that UX design has a strong voice.
  • Plan and execute user research and usability tests.
  • Establish standards and guidelines.
  • Maintain awareness of current human-computer interaction and usability research, theories and methodologies.
  • Collaborate with other contributors, including product management, engineering and the support and testing teams.

Qualifications

  • Formal education in design, information science, psychology, social science, or equivalent work experience.
  • *Deep* understanding of usability and user experience design principles, with a minimum of 5 years of experience.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience organizing and executing field studies and/or usability tests.
  • Ability to produce various design artifacts as needed to support your activities: wireframes, mock-ups, task flow models, information maps, personas/user profiles, and/or prototypes. You are a proficient user of various wireframe, drawing or prototyping applications such as Axure, Fireworks, Photoshop, etc., or HTML, CSS & JavaScript.
  • Capable of designing user experiences for various devices including desktop, tablet and mobile.
  • Exposure to business or technical applications, intellectually curious, and able to learn about products that deal with complex subject matter.
  • Awareness of web technology, and its capabilities and constraints.

As a person you are

  • An articulate communicator, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Flexible and versatile, with the ability to jump into a broad range of UX activities.
  • Self-motivated, able to balance the demands of multiple projects, and still get things done.

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