Junior UX Designer at aPriori

We need one to Produce visual design and supporting assets for the development team.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills
• Highly organized, persistent, flexible and able to focus on long term goals
• Intellectual curiosity and motivation to learn UX processes and skills
• Excellent problem solving and multi-tasking skills
• Experience working in Agile Scrum teams and collaborating with stakeholders from product management, marketing, development and cloud ops
• Highly organized, persistent, flexible and able to focus on long term goals

Education and Experience:

• A portfolio showing examples of design process, research strategy, and other equivalent user experience accomplishments
• Proficiency with modern design tools and establishing or maturing design language systems. We strive to be technology agnostic but our current tools include Figma, Adobe XD, Zeplin, Balsamiq. and Mural
• Knowledge and experience in usability research and design methods with a focus on human-computer interaction
• Experience working directly with customers and end users of SaaS applications for usability and UX feedback
• Experience with modern web application frameworks. Experience with React based applications is a plus.
• 0-3 years as a user experience designer or other equivalent title.
• BA, BS, MA, or MS in cognitive psychology, human factors, industrial design, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience with CAD, CAM, CAE, AEC, PLM, ERP, or Supply Chain systems is a plus.

Location: Remote; even better if you can work US Eastern Time hours. Infrequent trips to HQ in Concord, MA and possibly Belfast, Northern Ireland to work with team members directly.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times

Description

About aPriori:

aPriori solves a challenging technical problem, combining innovative algorithms and technologies. Founded in 2003, we offer the technical challenges of a startup and the excitement of a rapidly growing, established software firm.

aPriori’s game-changing software is helping manufacturers embrace and thrive in the new world of digital manufacturing. The world of manufacturing has been forever changed by COVID – rapidly accelerating the transformation from physical, step-by-step development of products to fast, dynamic, collaborative digital design, sourcing and production. This is turning manufacturing on its head enabling upstarts to disrupt the leadership positions held by the manufacturing giants. As a result – everything is changing - and opportunity abounds.

That’s where you come in. Bring your entrepreneurial spirit, your curiosity, your “what if we…” ideas to aPriori where our team is encouraged to swing for the fences. Whether you’re looking to jump-start your career or you’re ready for your next big challenge, you’ll find aPriori at the forefront of innovation.

Job Summary

Our team designs software to help design engineering and cost engineering teams predict and manage manufacturing risk and cost. The Junior UX Designer role is an individual contributor who will assist with the design and production of features for our users and learn the user-centered planning under the direction of more senior designers. In this role, a successful candidate will produce design artifacts and assets and learn to center their work on customer needs. They’ll learn to engage stakeholders and actual users in researching and prototyping a range of design solutions with increasing degrees of fidelity as we progress towards greater confidence about the problem through user research. They will support our partners in engineering, QA, and other teams as they produce, improve, and release the design. They will learn to manage expectations appropriately with stakeholders and clients. Success in this role also means being ready to receive guidance from more senior user experience team members, particularly with user-centered design capabilities.

Here, we aspire to do the right thing and to do things right. We seek others who feel the same. A successful candidate for this role can demonstrate some experience working with B2B/SaaS users grounded in research-based personas. They optimally can demonstrate some experience in working with stakeholders in defining workflows and improving and optimizing interactions, especially with presenting complex data in an actionable format. While curious and thoughtful, they can work with speed and efficiency and can manage time and complexity. They exhibit a bias towards action and know when and how to make tradeoffs among UX approaches. They can demonstrate traceability between user research and design execution, and are able to defend design decisions based on user research findings.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Produce visual design and supporting assets for the development team.
• Develop rapid prototypes for fast, iterative user interface improvement.
• Assist with design of user experiences that address the needs of specific user personas and use cases.
• Use storyboarding, user scenario development, high-level use case definition, user and task analysis to refine requirements, UX plans and UI designs.
• Advocate for information architecture that supports our UI strategy and plans
• Collaborate with product managers and development teams to design user experiences for our role-based Web applications and support product based agile scrum teams.
• Develop, maintain, and share user personas to help create a common understanding across the product development team of end users, the problems they face and how aPriori helps/provides value to them.
• Work directly with customers and our user council on usability research, user workflows and persona development to inform our designs, product roadmap and new features. Run Lean usability testing / validation.
• Work with marketing to define our branding and be a champion for brand and UX standards across all products.

Required Skills/Abilities:

Excellent interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills

Highly organized, persistent, flexible and able to focus on long term goals

Intellectual curiosity and motivation to learn UX processes and skills

Excellent problem solving and multi-tasking skills

Experience working in Agile Scrum teams and collaborating with stakeholders from product management, marketing, development and cloud ops

Highly organized, persistent, flexible and able to focus on long term goals

Education and Experience:

• A portfolio showing examples of design process, research strategy, and other equivalent user experience accomplishments
• Proficiency with modern design tools and establishing or maturing design language systems. We strive to be technology agnostic but our current tools include Figma, Adobe XD, Zeplin, Balsamiq. and Mural
• Knowledge and experience in usability research and design methods with a focus on human-computer interaction
• Experience working directly with customers and end users of SaaS applications for usability and UX feedback
• Experience with modern web application frameworks. Experience with React based applications is a plus.
• 0-3 years as a user experience designer or other equivalent title.
• BA, BS, MA, or MS in cognitive psychology, human factors, industrial design, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience with CAD, CAM, CAE, AEC, PLM, ERP, or Supply Chain systems is a plus.

Location: Remote; even better if you can work US Eastern Time hours. Infrequent trips to HQ in Concord, MA and possibly Belfast, Northern Ireland to work with team members directly.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times

aPriori Offers:

A team environment where your experience is valued, your voice is heard, and the work that you do makes an impact for our customers and employees.

aPriori offers competitive compensation in a dynamic, growing innovative environment. A competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, and vision for employees and their dependents, life, disability, flexible spending accounts, 401k match, career-growth opportunities, flexible time, and paid time off benefits – including aPriori days, and more!

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