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UX Designer
Gannett
Phoenix, AZ, United States
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USA TODAY NETWORK is one of the top 20 digital companies in the country, sharing the list with Google, Facebook, and Amazon. And we have over 100 million unique visitors a month, which is more than Buzzfeed, Yahoo News, and Huffington Post. Because our team consists of over 110 local properties with USA TODAY at the helm, you’ll have the luxury of living in a community you love while making a national impact.
Grateful Ventures, a Gannett Co. Inc. company and part of the USA TODAY NETWORK, is seeking a UX Designerwith experience in serving multi-layered, complex organizations. This professional will create satisfying or compelling experiences for users of our product, often drawing on results from user research and workflow analysis. Our UX designer should possess strong creative, technical and problem-solving skills. Areas of focus may include content, controls, visual design and development, information architecture, user research, branding and customer/technical support.
Responsibilities:
• Consulting with clients to understand their goals and explaining research results
• Conducting usability testing
• Creating wireframes, storyboards, sitemaps and screen flows
• Creating product prototypes
• Developing personas and usage scenarios
• Analyzing user feedback and activity, and iterating to enhance the user experience
• Assisting with content development
• Conducting competitor and customer analysis
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in visual design, communications, computer science, a technical discipline or equivalent
• 3+ years of Previous design experience is often required
• Should be self-directed but also collaborative
• Must possess superb communication, time-management and process-management skills
• Creativity, passion and attention to detail are a must
• Solid understanding of graphic design and web technologies, and of wireframing tools such as Axure RP and Balsamiq
• A good grasp of design programs and tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks and InVision is also necessary
• Must have the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and a willingness to keep their skills and industry knowledge current
Here's what we have to offer:
We offer an extremely competitive compensation plan and career growth opportunities. We also offer you a full benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, employee discounts and domestic partner benefits. Our 401(k) is topnotch and contributions you make, up to the first 5% eligible for a 100% Company match!
About us:
Grateful Ventures is an online media and publishing coalition, focusing on building content and monetization strategies for high value domains. Our creative collective brings together brightest minds in online media, with hard-earned expertise and deep intuition in business, design, development, branding, marketing, advertising, online media, videography and cinematography.