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Senior User Experience Designer
Autodesk
Ontario Toronto, , Canada
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Description
Are you ready to join one of the biggest content creation software production teams in the world? Candidates for the Senior User Experience Designer role must demonstrate a deep understanding of both art and technology.
Are you an individual that knows the difference between a pipeline and runtime? Do you know how to listen to customers and clearly describe their needs in easily understood workflows? Do you have a deep understanding of rigging, modeling, texturing, animation, lighting and more? We are looking for you to help guide these pursuits in a cutting-edge environment.
Key Responsibilities:
• Design features and functionality for Maya
• Conduct user research to define user stories and personas for next generation mobile and cloud initiatives
• Craft the user experience as part of new initiatives or refinement of existing initiatives
Review designs with internal and external stakeholders for usability and workflow validation
Work with other UX designers and UX architecture to implement designs
Work within an AGILE development process.
• Document and present research to various audiences
• Manage ad-hoc reporting requests from product designers and product managers
• Help drive change by communicating findings to stakeholders in the company
• Provide information for design reviews and suggest design alternatives
• Build relationships across the organization, with technical and non-technical groups
• Dialogue with cross-functional teams (from product management to designers and development)
Job Requirements:
• Bachelor or Masters in Systems Design program or equivalent
• Strong knowledge of designing workflows from requirement
• Excellent command of user experience and usability methods, design principles, problem-framing skills.
• Strong working experience performing Heuristic Evaluations, Task Analysis, Contextual Inquiries, Ethnographic, Focus Group Competitive Benchmarking, etc...
• Self-directed, willing to take initiative.
• Ability to communicate design goals based on user-centered design principles
• Experience designing for web and mobile applications is an asset
• Impeccable verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain your design decisions
• Passion for designing compelling user experiences
• Can work with minimal supervision
• Ability to work in a data-rich driven environment and using data as input for design
• Knowledge of HTML, Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro, OmniGraffle Pro, Balsamiq, Maya, Keynote
As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk helps people imagine, design, and create a better world. Autodesk accelerates better design through an unparalleled depth of experience and a broad portfolio of software to give customers the power to solve their design, business, and environmental challenges. In addition to designers, architects, engineers, and media and entertainment professionals, Autodesk helps students, educators, and casual creators unlock their creative ideas through user-friendly applications.