UI/UX Lead

We're on the hunt for an exceptional and visionary contract part time UI/UX Director to join our dynamic team, remotely from anywhere in the USA.

As the UI/UX Lead, you won't just be a part of the team – you'll be the driving force, a trailblazer, a visionary leader shaping the future of our products and bringing our customers' visions to reality. You'll collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to breathe life into our ideas, from the initial spark of inspiration to the realization of cutting-edge products.

Your mission? To lead our brilliant UI/UX team, crafting online experiences that will leave users awestruck. You'll foster a culture of collaboration within your department, fostering innovation, and creating a workplace where positivity and our core values thrive. Together, we'll reach and surpass our product goals.

But that's not all! You'll be the maestro of our clients' experience, orchestrating groundbreaking discoveries and steering the ship of all the UI and UX deliverables. Your ultimate goal? Ensuring client satisfaction reaches new heights.

So, what's on your to-do list? Conducting in-depth research, unearthing precious insights, sculpting consumer scenarios, and crafting strategic documents that will guide our exceptional team to success.

If you're ready to lead, innovate, and create unforgettable digital experiences, this is the opportunity you've been waiting for. Join us in reshaping the future of UI/UX, and let's turn ordinary into extraordinary.

Responsibilities: 

• Communicate with clients to understand their business goals and objectives

• Develop technical and business requirements and always strive to deliver intuitive and user-centered solutions

• Prepare and lead kickoff Discovery sessions with clients

• Work with the team to plan and implement new designs 

• Optimize existing user interface designs

• Test for intuitivity and experience

• Combine creativity with an awareness of the design elements

• Create prototypes for new product ideas

• Test new ideas before implementing 

• Conduct an ongoing user research

• Design, conduct, and evaluate studies to understand and improve user experience, documenting requirements.

• Work directly with clients to identify requirements and ensure a positive experience.

• Train, mentor, and supervise the UI/UX team

• Create mock-ups and track metrics related to identifiable factors that change user experience.

• Create and implement strategies that improve user experience through design.

Requirements and Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as an UI-UX Designer or similar role

• UX/UI design portfolio

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Experience planning and facilitating client discoveries

• Ability to present  and explain design options to clients

• Ability to write clear and concise documentation and communications

• Detail oriented

• Critical thinker

• Problem solver and customer-centered

• Knowledge of Adobe range of products including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat 

• Knowledge of Sketch and Invision or similar

• Familiarity with CMS (WordPress and Drupal), HTML, and CSS

• Knowledge of Human Centered Design, Usability, and Design Thinking

Our Advantage

Promet Source combines a unique combination of stellar designers, savvy project managers, and talented developers. Promet Source applications look great, are fun to use, and deliver outstanding value to our clients and their constituents. At Promet Source we not only use open source tools, but are engaged open source community members. We contribute to open source projects, build our own open source tools, and engage with the community through conferences and meetups -- because we know that is the best way to deliver compelling experiences for our clients.