Engaged Media Studios, Inc. is a digital media technology development and entertainment production company of seasoned entrepreneurs and creative innovators that specialize in producing transformational solutions, products, and immersive experiences that transcend boundaries in the video game, museum, sports & entertainment, industrial, and government market sectors serving a growing diverse customer base.
Position Details
Job Type: Full Time, Hybrid
Company Location: Houston, Texas
Position Summary
The Lead UI/UX Designer must be a great leader with the ability to maximize the talents of the team. Doing so means being a coach, an instructor, a team leader and a critic all at once. The Lead UI/UX Designer work with User Experience Designers, Visual Designers, User Researchers, Front End Engineers, Business Analysts, Copywriters, and other Marketers on a regular basis to ensure the full experience of the UI/UX of the web application or mobile application is being realized.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the UX/UI team in expanding mastery of the goals of each design project and provide stakeholders with innovative user experience design proposals.
Demonstrate high quality design practices including participation in all aspects of UX: research, ideation, strategy, interaction design, and visual design.
Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadmaps.
Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps and design graphic user interface elements. Develop UI mockups and prototypes.
Create original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches and tables)
Empower and mentor designers, fostering a collaborative, productive, and positive environment.
Lead design strategy activities to understand user needs & business opportunities, generate potential solutions, and develop roadmaps for achieving that future.
Maintain and further build design team workflows that ensure that all designs delivered are in line with style guides and are of high-quality standards.
Highly communicative and responsive both within the team and to stakeholders across the company while managing a large volume of ongoing projects.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in design, computer science, or a relevant field. (Required)
7+ years of industry experience as a UI/UX designer and/or manager in a cross-functional UI/UX team, dedicated to the complete UI/UX design and development lifecycle of several successfully launched desktop and mobile applications. (Required)
UI/UX Design Portfolio work for both mobile and web platforms (Required)
Deep understanding of the iOS and Android platforms and experience designing and launching products for both. (Required)
Working knowledge of the capabilities and constraints of web front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap as well as iOS components and Material Design. (Required)
Proven success designing and optimizing high-quality product experiences for a variety of platforms including desktop, web and mobile. Experience in B2B platforms is an advantage.
Mastery of UX interaction and design principles and deliverables including rapid prototyping, concept diagrams, user scenarios, wireframes, flows, experience maps, design patterns and annotated comps.
Architect system wide design solutions that satisfy both product and engineering requirements.
Experience managing a team of around 6-8 UI/UX designers. Ability to communicate with different departments of a multi-national and dynamic company
Drive and willingness to go the extra mile with a strong work ethic.
Experience in other types of designs (online ads, print, etc.) will be an advantage.