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Company: Netsertive
Location: Morrisville, NC
Learn more: 

https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/netsertivecom/view/P_AAAAAAFAAGREYnrm8NBR32

The User Experience Designer will work to answer the most challenging questions in design. This role will envision how internal and external end users will experience our products and platform and bring that vision to life in a way that feels inspired and refined. As a part of the Product Management team, you will work closely with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional team members to develop new features. You will inspire change at all stages of product development by delivering exciting visual, written, and oral presentations about the findings. 

Responsibilities
- Help define the user model and user interface for new and existing products and platforms
Develop high-level and detailed storyboards, wireframes, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
- Work closely with product managers and analysts to gather user performance data to derive user behavior on various products and features to recommend design changes
- Design optimal user flow (fewest clicks/actions) to help our clients achieve their business goals using experimentation methods such as A/B testing
- Collaborate with product managers to support all aspects of design for their product development needs

Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in UI and UX design
- Demonstrated experience in designable user interfaces for web based products
- Great team player with a positive attitude
- Experienced in one or more areas of interaction design, web design, and visual or graphic design
- Proficiency in HTML5 and CSS
- Knowledge of JavaScript for rapid prototyping purposes
- Strong clean visual design sense
- Master’s degree in HCI, Design, or CS related fields is a plus

Company: Fidelity
Location: RTP, NC 
Learn more: Please contact Mary Foley at  mary.foley2@fmr.com  

USER EXPERIENCE RESEARCH DIRECTOR
Lead a team of User Experience Researchers to help product teams identify the right problems, find and validate the right solutions, and design high quality experiences.


The Team
Fidelity is committed to providing differentiated value to our clients with a personalized, proactive, intuitive and easy experience that deeply meets their planning, investing, and service needs. Core to meeting our strategic intent is understanding human behavior and perception captured through rigorous research and packaged as insights that Fidelity teams rely upon to make informed decisions about the right problems to solve, the right solutions to build, and the best execution of those solutions. 

The User Experience Research team is part of Fidelity’s Customer Knowledge and Strategic Insights domain – a 400-person organization consisting of analytics, research, and AI experts. 

In our agile model, the User Experience Research Director is aligned with product groups consisting of multiple scrum teams. In this role, the UXR Lead partners closely with UX Design leads, product managers, technologists, marketers, and strategists to help the organization bring new and improved experiences to our current and prospective customers. 

The Expertise You Have 
• Bachelors and/or Masters in Design, Human Factors, Psychology, or related field
• +10 years conducting and leading UX Research, minimum 3 years managing teams
• Experience delivering UX research in an agile work environment

The Skills You Bring 
• You have proven people management capability
• You are resourceful and work consultatively with partners to determine if and which research methods are most appropriate for the problem at hand
• You are collaborative -- working with many individuals and teams across multi-functional zones and areas to achieve outcomes
• You have a growth mindset and enjoy learning and growing your knowledge base and skills
• You like to challenge traditional assumptions about UX Design and Research – seeking out, inventing, and testing new approaches and technologies
The Value You Deliver
• Establishing and grooming UX Insights Backlog aligned to key product initiatives
• Partnering with UX Design Chapter leads, Market Researchers, Segment, Strategy, and Tribe leads to prioritize user experience insights needs 
• Coaching UX research pod team members
• Initiating and maintaining democratization of UX Research, so that squads are empowered to run some of their own epic and user-story-level research
• Surfacing & Curating research findings through tribe-based user insights retrospectives
• Connecting user insights across tribes and domains to align efforts and encourage reuse versus re-invention

Company Overview 
At Fidelity, we are focused on making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit Fidelitycareers.com

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer.

Company: Citrix
Location: Raleigh, NC 
Learn more: https://jobs.citrix.com/job/CITRA0058R16275/Senior-Product-Designer

We believe work is not a place, but rather a thing you do. Our technology revolves around this core philosophy. We are relentlessly committed to helping people work and play from anywhere, on any device. Innovation, creativity and a passion for ever-improving performance drive our company and our people forward. We empower the original mobile device:  YOU!

Job Description:

We are seeking a passionate and talented Product Designer to guide our enterprise admin, end-user and mobile experiences to the next level. 

Designers serve a vital role at Citrix. Efforts that go into creating the experiences and crafting the details in our products help transform the way people work. Our ideal candidate advocates for users and leverages data to design our product experiences. We appreciate designers who think deeply, have a good sense of humor, and love collaboration.

Responsibilities:
Demonstrate subject matter expertise in user-centered design

• Contribute to team processes, lead large projects
• Offer design guidance to and mentor junior designers
• Advocate for users and the role of design in the product development process Incorporate and share new techniques based on industry trends
• Embody and advocate for the mission and goals of Product Design within Citrix

Proactively collaborate within the design team and with cross-functional teams.

• Review and delegate work to design teammates
• Work closely with user researchers and contribute to research strategies
• Actively communicate and share information with design teammates to ensure UI/UX pattern alignment across platforms and products
• Collaboratively problem solve with Product Management and Engineering
• Receive, weigh, and integrate feedback from cross-functional teams
• Play an active role throughout the product lifecycle, including: defining requirements, designing flows, and reviewing builds

Proactively provide solutions with strategic intention

• Understand business goals, strategy, and product offerings
• Anticipate issues and communicate them as they arise
• Offer solutions that consider business goals and the impact across all products

Communicate design work within the design team and with cross-functional teams

• Lead smaller project teams on product features and releases
• Present designs in a clear, confident, and logical manner
• Explain rationale for design decisions as it relates to business goals, product offerings, and industry best practices
• Regularly share design iterations and project updates with management and team

Work independently and effectively in a fast-paced environment on multiple products

• Translate complex content and information systems into simplified user experiences
• Create wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes for various platforms (e.g., web, mobile, and desktop)
• Set your own deadlines within the project schedule
• Take ownership over designs, decisions, and deliverables

Requirements:

• 8+ years of user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design for multiple products, including experience in:
  • User-centered design methods and techniques (e.g., user research and testing, data analysis, customer journey maps, etc.)
  • Designing for software applications for multiple platforms (e.g., web, mobile, desktop)
  • Working and collaborating in Agile development environments using management and issue tracking software (e.g., Jira)
• Demonstrates high proficiency in creating low- to high-fidelity: wireframes, designs concepts, prototypes, and technical documentation using industry tools (e.g., Sketch, Adobe CreativeCloud, InVision, Axure, Microsoft Office).
• Demonstrates a passion for design, our users, and collaboration with designers and cross-functional team members.
• Has a solid portfolio showcasing work that exhibits attention to detail and articulates design decisions
• Bachelor's degree in visual design, interaction design, human factors, human-computer interaction, or equivalent professional experience
• Possesses working knowledge of web technologies and frameworks (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React); experience with front-end coding a plus

About us:

Citrix is a cloud company that enables mobile workstyles.  We create a continuum between work and life by allowing people to work whenever, wherever, and however they choose. Flexibility and collaboration is what we’re all about. The Perks: We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package. You’ll enjoy our workstyle within an incredible culture.  We’ll give you all the tools you need to succeed so you can grow and develop with us.

Citrix Systems, Inc. is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, marital status, protected veteran status and other protected classifications.

Citrix uses applicant information consistent with the Citrix Recruitment Policy Notice athttps://www.citrix.com/about/legal/privacy/citrix-recruitment-privacy-notice.html

Citrix welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the job application process, please contact us at (877) 924-8749 or email us at ASKHR@citrix.com for assistance.

If this is an evergreen requisition, by applying you are giving Citrix consent to be considered for future openings of other roles of similar qualifications.

Company: Project Data Sphere, LLC
Location: Cary, NC 
Learn more: If interested in this position please contact careers@projectdatasphere.org to learn more. 

http://www.projectdatasphere.org/

Project Data Sphere, LLC, is a not-for-profit organization providing an online cancer research platform where the research community can broadly share, integrate and analyze historical, patient-level data from academic and industry cancer clinical trials. As the organization (and platform) approaches its 5 year anniversary, there is the need for both new platform capabilities, and improved user experience for the existing platform capabilities. We anticipate that this consulting project will be front-loaded in terms of the time needed to work on the project, tapering off to more of a maintenance/retainer model as the work progresses throughout the year. 

Responsibilities:
• Interact with users and subject matter experts to identify functional requirements
• Work with subject matter experts and developers to put functional requirements into context via use cases
• Work with team to translate functional requirements into system design
• Designs, develops, and documents high level and detailed storyboards, mockups and/or prototypes to effectively communicate visual designs.
• Runs design reviews, usage walkthroughs, and usability tests with key stakeholders and representative users to validate and iterate designs as needed.
• Prepares feasibility studies and designs tests to determine operating characteristics of software as required
• Focus on user goals and needs and the flow of tasks to achieve those goals.
• Recognize design challenges that may have been solved by others and whether those solutions are relevant to the product

Desired Skills and Experience
• Proficient in interview techniques with subject matter experts
• Ability to create screen mock-ups to effectively communicate designs
• Ability to develop low-fidelity and high-fidelity UI prototypes
• Ability to make design recommendations based on research findings and standard design practices
• Strong interpersonal, teamwork, and leadership skills
• Ability to define goals and expectations, and drive results through clear communication and discipline
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to ensure results in the fast-moving and fluid environment of a non-profit information technology start up
• Be proficient with Microsoft Office products include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Background
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Industrial Design, Communications, or a related field.
• 5+ years of user experience design and analysis. 
• Experience in at least 2 of these areas: interaction design (IxD), front-end engineering, user research, information architecture, interaction design, or prototyping.

Physical Requirements
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, or telephone. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 10-25 pounds. 
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.