[Sigia-l] UX Designer role(s) - full service digital agency - midtown manhattan - $80-110k

[Ben Tregoing]

User Experience Designer(s) – full service digital agency – Midtown Manhattan - $70-110k

Hello everyone,

I have two new roles to brief you all on, with the same independent full service digital agency, based in Midtown Manhattan.  They are looking for two user experience designers, one senior (up to $110k) and one more junior (up to around $85k). The agency works on multi-platform (web, mobile, tablet) digital product design, with some advertising / marketing stuff aswell (not a huge amount, and generally only as part of a wider, long arch piece of work).

What do they make:
The agency’s projects are primarily in the pharmaceutical realm (don’t switch off just yet), with some significant work in the sporting arena too. The split is around 70-30 in favor of pharma, but the work they are doing in this space is not the usual restrictive, regulation heavy snoozeathon stuff that a lot of other agencies are bogged down in, it’s genuinely interesting, complex work. Most of their pharma stuff is from the position of ‘agency of record’, so there is already a body of trust and knowledge in place between the agency and the client.

They have some proprietary tech that they can utilize in a number of interesting ways, that allows them to model and interact with 3D environments and space, and build this into products. This can be utilized in a number of different ways, including virtual tours of 3D space with innovative interface’s sitting on top, or modeling of 3D environments to aid in the purchasing of venue tickets. They have also built some pretty complex internal tools for large multinationals (tablet based sales tools, data analysis products etc..), that look really pretty but are also functionally very interesting.

How do they make it:
UX becomes involved at the point of pitch, and is one of the first disciplines through the door at the kick off point for a project, gathering requirements, getting under the skin of the business, and understanding what the questions are, alongside the strategy team. From there, UX will drive the research and requirements phase, with generous budget and time afforded to user access (more for the complex products, less so for the marketing and advertising work). Lots of workshops, focus groups, interviews, a lot of data and research provided by the clients. From here, personas are created, uses cases and scenarios, storyboards and narratives etc..

In the current set-up, the design process is lead by the senior UXD, who defines page templates, primary journeys and flows, screen and IA concepts and templates, content and data relationships, taxonomies, lots of sketching and whiteboarding. The more junior UX designers will then work on the more detailed wireframes and documentation, all the way up to working prototypes or functional specs, ready for build by the dev team.

What are they looking for:
For the senior role, they need someone with full UX design cycle experience, as comfortable in front of clients gathering requirements and leading strategy workshops as they are transforming those insights into workable, visualized concepts. Knowledge of pharma would obviously be big help, but not essential, and cross platform experience would be a big plus. They are open to someone ‘stepping up’ into this role, as long as you can show the key attributes (good in front of clients, strategic thinking).

For the more junior role, a good solid understanding of the UCD process from beginning to end would be great (even if you haven’t been able to practice it on a project yet). Maybe you’re coming off an internship with a good agency and looking for your first full time role, or maybe you’ve earned your stripes over the past year and are ready for a new challenge. Limited exposure to typical asset creation is pretty essential (sitemaps, journeys, wireframes etc..), they can teach you research techniques.

Drop me a line if either of these sound interesting!

Kind regards,

Ben Tregoing | Director TDA-Digital - North America

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