Interaction Designer

UX Designers are members of the UX Team and are instrumental in helping the organization ensure that a professional user interface reaches the customer with a high degree of consistency and usability by working at the program level to provide cross-component and cross-program interaction and graphic design guidance to all Agile teams working in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) model.

In your role as Interaction Designer your main responsibilities are:
* Work as a member of the UX team to review and set enterprise-wide guidelines for all customer-facing user interfaces based on best practices of visual user-centered design, web development and usability.
* Work with Product Managers, Product Owners and external stakeholders when possible to understand the specific business goals that must be satisfied by user-system interactions.
* Work with System Architects and development teams to build and maintain the technical foundation for real-time UX validation, feedback collection and usage tracking statistics.
* Work with teams to deliver UX guidelines, conceptual models, workflows and interaction designs for new problem domains in a just-in-time fashion according to the cadence of the Agile Release Train.
* Work with teams to conduct usability tests measuring UI issues including performance, accuracy, learn-ability and efficiency for any significant or risky changes to the UI.
* Attend release planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, iteration demo, and PSI demo meetings whenever critical UI-related work is involved checking for adherence to the guidelines to ensure enterprise-wide consistency.
* Advise test engineers and System Team in UX testing and testing automation.

Education/Experience
* An undergraduate degree in Human Computer Interaction, Interface Design, Visual Communication or Software Development with an emphasis on the user interface. Graduate degree in a related field is highly desirable.
* 8 or more years developing interfaces for computer applications including web and windows applications.
* Significant experience leading usability tests on web and windows applications.
* Significant experience interacting and building consensus with multiple levels of stake-holders including product managers, customers, developers, graphic designers and project managers.
* Extensive experience with generating wireframes, static and dynamic prototypes and other mockup methods.
* Strong experience with one or more of the following: Adobe Creative Suite, MS Expression Blend, Visio, Visual Studio (WPF), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax.

Skills
* Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills. You must be able to evangelize and educate development teams about user interface best practices.
* Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently in a deadline-driven environment.

What do we offer?
We offer a professional, progressive and multicultural environment for you to grow personally as well as a wide range of benefits offered by a global company. If you are abusiness minded and results oriented person with a proactive and 'problem solution' mindset, then you will enjoy working in this position and within our team. You will have contacts with your direct colleagues around Europe and within the Schneider Electric Group.

Interested?
We process applications running and encourage you to register your interest as soon as possible.