What's in this for you?
If you're in the data center industry, involved in data center real estate, are looking to grow personally and professionally, are looking to stop living deal-to-deal, or are looking to reclaim some balance in your life by coming in, working hard, and going home – then you will want to consider working with datacenterHawk.
We are a humble, hard-working, fun team charging after excellence and a vision to support our clients across the globe – all while investing in our culture and making datacenterHawk a great place to work for us all.
Job summary
The ideal candidate should have a strong portfolio demonstrating their ability to design effective user interfaces and experiences. They should be skilled in UX research, wireframing, prototyping, and visual design. The candidate should also have a solid understanding of current design trends and be able to incorporate them into their work.
Primary duties and responsibilities
- Create wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs for our app site
- Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
- Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps
- Support marketing efforts when required
- Manage company design system and component library
- Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function
- Identify and troubleshoot UX problems
- Conduct user research and test to gather insights and identify user needs and pain points
- Stay up to date with current design trends and technologies
- Iterate designs based on user feedback and testing results
Critical competencies
- Ownership & Execution - Demonstrates a sense of ownership to drive issues to closure, maximizes the use of existing processes while continuously pursuing ways to improve efficiencies, sets aggressive goals, monitors progress, and delivers results, seizes more opportunities than others
- Collaboration & Teambuilding - Builds and maintains relationships to successfully work toward common strategic goals, creates strong morale and spirit, fosters open dialogue, creates a sense of unity among team
- Enthusiasm & Passion - Communicates a compelling and inspired vision of core purpose, focused on the future (not the past), inspires others to take the journey, sparks passion and creativity among those around them
The individual
- Strong portfolio showcasing skills in user-centered design, information architecture, and visual design
- Proficiency with Figma and other design tools
- Knowledge of design principles, including typography, color theory, and composition
- Ability to create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to be self-directed and work independently, as well as collaboratively as part of an Agile Scrum Product Team to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience
- Up to date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
- Superior attention to detail and follow-through
- Ability to demo and present designs and key milestones to peers and stakeholders
- Ability to create and improve design solutions for applications that are based on user-centered design techniques
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Computer Science or relevant field preferred
- 5+ years of UI/UX design experience