Sr. User Experience Designer

Founded in 2006, Futurewave Systems is a minority owned boutique, STAFFING & PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PROVIDER headquartered in Atlanta, GA. We are a GLOBAL NETWORK of proven industry professionals demonstrating the fastest fulfillment rate of high tech professionals for Fortune 500 Companies.

As UX designer you will be developing best-in-class customer experiences, including user interface designs, interaction models, prototypes, and more. You will have the opportunity to work closely with customers and product management team.

Have you designed beautiful products that others are wowed by? Are you responsible for bending established UI paradigms and shaping new trends for the modern web?

This position is a good fit for you if you are a hard-working, intelligent, and well-rounded User Experience Designer with a can-do attitude to help our growing company. The ideal applicant shares our love of technology and data-driven decision-making and understands that people are our most valuable asset.

As our UX designer you will be developing best-in-class customer experiences, including user interface designs, interaction models, prototypes, and more. You will have the opportunity to work closely with our customers, our product management team, our engineering crew as well as company leaders to successfully go from early stage product concepts to launch. You will need to be a pragmatic visionary that can execute in a small, nimble and agile development environment. You will also need to be at ease visualizing an experience in the abstract and then drive that vision into solid designs utilizing mockups and prototypes.

Job Responsibilities
· Work collaboratively with the product and UI teams to map user flows, paper prototype interactions, oversee the building process, and user testing
· Design interaction models, wireframes and mockups across mediums: web, tablet, mobile and email
· Present design solutions to stakeholders, defend design decisions and incorporate feedback into the design cycle
· Strike a balance between the practicalities of design and paradigms that define a new web
· Rapid prototype in Balsamiq, Sketch, HTML+CSS or other tool of choice

· 3+ years of experience as a professional UX designer

· Passion for UI/UX design with a deep understanding of visual design principals

· Excellent leadership and communication skills

· Excellent information and data visualization skills 

· A diverse portfolio that exhibits process as well as product

· Knowledge of front end markup: HTML/CSS/JQuery/other

· Experience designing across multiple device types and contexts (desktop, mobile)

· User testing and research