UX Designer

Overview

Job Summary:

Allegis Group is a global leader in the talent acquisition industry. We are the fourth largest Talent Acquisition company in the world, with core operating companies including Aerotek, TEKsystems, Aston Carter, and Actalent.

The UX team supports a collection of enterprise recruiter and candidate/talent platforms that:

• Help candidates to find the perfect job
• Support recruiters to find the perfect candidates for client companies
• Supports Allegis employees to better support clients and candidates via
• Features to make salespeople more consultative when engaging clients
• Features to make candidates more discoverable

At Allegis Group, you will be supported by leadership that values company culture and work-life balance. Allegis is constantly looking to innovate within the staffing and services industry.

Our UX Designers work with other designers, Product, Architecture, and Delivery teams at Allegis to design and build engaging business applications for our users. We are champions of human-centered design, bridging the gap between users, business, and technical partners, and have a strong understanding of the design thinking framework. Senior UX Designers will collaborate with UX researchers and management on design strategy and own complex projects from wireframes to high fidelity comps. Senior UX Designers are responsible for high quality UX deliverables, can identify where UX research is needed, and are able to use data to drive UX decision making.Key UX deliverables and responsibilities include but are not limited to: • Facilitating Design Thinking Workshops• Wireframing • Prototyping • High-fidelity mockups• Journey Maps• Personas • Collaborate with UX Researchers and/or conduct your own usability testing • Define platform design standards, patterns, and guidelines

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Own the design of user interfaces to meet client needs, with an emphasis on efficiency, clarity, and usability
• Collaborate on the experience strategy with the Design Leads and Managers
• Iterate based on design feedback, UX research findings, business, and user needs
• Ability to use UX research and metrics to drive design decision making
• Collaborate with other designers and cross functional team members to understand business requirements and design effective solutions
• Effectively gather requirements of a project and define acceptance criteria for new experiences
• Effectively negotiate experience trade-offs with product management and technical partners
• Effectively communicate conceptual ideas and detailed design rationale, both verbally and visually, to clients and internal partners
• Participate as a leader and a contributor on interdisciplinary project-based teams that include visual designers, project managers and developers
• Ability to Identify user friction and pain points and design effective UX solutions
• Collaborate with a UX Researcher and/or conduct your own user research: Usability testing, user interviews, card sorts, tree tests, stakeholder Interviews, surveys

Qualifications

Minimum Education and Experience:

• 4-6 years of design experience
• BA/BS in design, HCI, or related field, UX Bootcamp/Certificate, or equivalent practical experience
• Proficient understanding of design best practices for platforms, responsive web, and mobile, including interaction design, and information architecture
• Experience in web application design strongly preferred.
• Proficient understanding of UX design processes and methodology
• Experience conducting and/or collaborating on usability testing
• Proficient in Human Centered Design theory/practice.
• Experience creating wireframes, site/system flows, information architecture, prototypes
• Has worked within an Agile environment
• Portfolio of UX & UI projects and deliverables required.

Skills/Abilities:

• Proficient with UX process and design tools such as:
  • Figma
  • Adobe Suite
  • InVision
  • Sketch
• Own the definition of the experience vision, usability requirements, and UX Architecture of a project
• Comfortable communicating, both verbally and written, the user experience designs to other cross functional team members and stakeholders.
• Facilitate UX workshops in the areas of discovery, empathy, prioritization, design review.
• Self-starter who can work autonomously and still recognize when to ask for support
• Ability to present your designs and solutions effectively
• Mentor more junior designers to support team growth
• Preference for designers with experience working on enterprise platforms

Benefits Overview:

Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms.  This role is eligible for the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Hospital plans
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Company paid Basic Life and AD&D as well as voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Company paid Short and long-term disability
• Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HSA & DCFSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Assistance
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Allegis Group Paid Family Leave, Parental Leave)

• $91,400-$137,000
• The position is bonus eligible

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Office Requirements:

• Required in office 2-3 days a week out of our headquarters in Hanover, MD or offices in Jacksonville, FL

Core Competencies:

• Building Relationships
• Develop People
• Lead Change
• Inspire Others
• Think Critically
• Communicate Clearly
• Create Accountability

“Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.”

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email Lauren Lara at llara@allegisgroup.com or call 410-579-3526 for other accommodation options.