Associate Creative Director UX

Company: Publicis Sapient
Location: New York, NY 10014 (West Village area)

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We have an engagement with a large telecommunications brand and are seeking an ACD – UX to join in a freelance capacity. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the UX track of work on project.

He or she will be working within a small self contained team of a Product Manager, Integration Architect, Senior Architect and PM working on a redesign a B2B portal interface and thinking through the system design and templatization.

Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for interaction design, task flow, behavior, and navigation design
  • Ideates, sketches, and prototypes for desktop, tablet and mobile devices
  • Creates UX strategy, develops customer scenarios, conducts journey mapping and collaborates on persona development
  • Apply user experience best practices to prototype designs
  • Collaborates with Consumer Insights, and clients to apply data and insights to UX design decisions
  • Accountable for estimation and scope of UX activities and deliverables
  • Collaborates with Business Analysis and Technology
  • Leads team meetings and client reviews
  • Champions the Experience Design craft within Publicis Sapient

Requirements:
  • Demonstrates the information architecture, system and interaction design skills necessary to support client work
  • Actively collaborates in cross disciplinary idea generation and client co-creation sessions
  • Articulates rationale for approach in the context of both business and user needs
  • Defines processes and deliverables that meet project goals and are reasonable within operational, cultural and technology constraints
  • Exceptional at holistic and thorough interactive solutions
  • Self-managed and exceptional communication skills

Experience:
  • 5-7+ years of experience working on complex software, transactional or ecommerce experiences, with medium to large-sized teams, preferably in a cross disciplinary digital agency
  • 3+ years team management or team lead experience
  • Expert with Sketch and InVision (or equivalent). Framer X is a plus.
  • Led multidisciplinary sketching and ideation sessions with teams and clients
  • Experienced in both agile and waterfall methodologies
  • Familiar with scoping and estimating UX tasks
  • Led the UX on a multiple small to medium-size project