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Company: Zaloni
Location:  Durham, NC
Learn More: https://zaloni.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=342

Our Amazing #TeamZaloni

We are the frontline evangelists and trusted advisors to our customers. Zaloni understands its customers require industry expertise as well as an ability to help them meet their business objectives. The Product Management team at Zaloni is responsible for building a product strategy that will please our customers as well as provide an industry leading vision for our overall market. The Zaloni Product Management team serves as a bridge between our customers and the Zaloni Development, Marketing, and Sales teams. 

What You’ll Do in This Role to Add Value

Zaloni is transforming the way organizations enable, govern, and engage with their data assets. We are seeking a User Experience Designer to collaborate with internal and external product influencers and users. You will be responsible for ensuring that our customers and users have a positive experience with Zaloni’s Arena platform, as measured by greater user engagement, customer retention, and market recognition.  You will help define the user experience, drive execution from conception to release, and measure adoption.  Your success is defined as product adoption and ability to build a trusted partnership with a cross-functional team, including marketing, engineering, sales, and technical support teams to guide and inspire a satisfying experience for all of our end users.

Responsibilities

• Conduct user research to learn about users and their behavior, goals, motivations, and needs in order to inform effective product decisions.
• Create user personas. Identify key user groups and create representative personas of their behaviors within the data management lifecycle.
• Define an effective information architecture to organize features within the Zaloni Arena platform to guide the user to accomplish key DataOps tasks.
• Design user flows and wireframes and share with engineering teams.
• Create prototypes and an interactive version of the product before handing off to development, which provides a tangible way for stakeholders to evaluate the prototype.
• Test products on real users and gather feedback based on a minimum viable product (MVP).
• Set clear requirements and acceptance criteria pertaining to the primary user interface points for Arena (Web UI, REST APIs, Documentation, etc.)
• Review the work of engineering teams to ensure compliance with Zaloni branding and established UX & UI standards

Required Skills/Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience in software user experience design
• Knowledge of relevant UX best practices, including User-Centered Design principles
• Demonstrated experience with the responsibilities listed above
• Exceptional oral and written English language skills; ability to communicate effectively via email, slack, video, phone, and similar technologies with colleagues, customers, and partners.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to articulate ideas
• Ability to deliver results in a team-based environment
• Portfolio of previous work must be presented incorporating User Interface (UI) designs and/or sketches that demonstrate an understanding of interaction design and visual design

Our Awesome Company

Zaloni simplifies big data for transformative business insights. We work with pioneering enterprises to modernize their data architecture and operationalize their data lakes to incorporate data into everyday business practices. Zaloni’s data management platform, Arena, provides total control throughout the data pipeline from ingestion to analytics, with comprehensive data management, governance and self-service data preparation capabilities for IT and business users. A leader in big data for more than a decade, Zaloni’s expertise is deep, spans multiple industries, and has proven invaluable to customers at many of the world’s top companies. We are proud to be recognized by CRN’s 2017 Big Data 100 list, Forbes top 20 big data companies to work for, and Red Herring’s Top 100 North America Award.
For additional information, please visit www.zaloni.com.

Company: Dude Solutions
Location:  Remote
Learn More: https://recruiting.ultipro.com/DUD1000DUDE/JobBoard/a1929d18-68c4-4ba7-b6ec-7d47c69143bb/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=04dbf9b0-cde5-4e7b-9625-847ed4e4970d

Who We Are:
Dude Solutions is a leading provider of cloud-based operations management software to optimize facilities, assets, and workflow. We empower our clients and our people, combining innovative technology with operational insight to transform the places we learn, live, heal, work, and play. We’re both proud and humbled to play a role in the daily operations of so many clients, and we look forward to continually drive innovation, efficiency and safety throughout the markets we serve.

About The Job:
The Senior UX Designer is a key member of the User Experience team responsible for the overall design of our products. This role brings the voice of the user into the designs for a crucial, high-growth product in our portfolio.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Shape the user experience and design for one or more products in our portfolio
• Create mockups, wireframes and prototypes to communicate the design with product and engineering teams
• Initiate usability tests with users to validate high risk designs before the feature is implemented and adjust the designs based on feedback
• Work with Product Managers to identify the UX needs for the features on the roadmap and the constraints for the design
• Collaborate with product managers to understand the requirements and the business value. Provide designs that meet the business goals
• Collaborate with developers to build delightful experiences that are feasible. Understands the technology behind the products enough to have meaningful conversations with developers about feasibility.
• Understands the markets we serve and has deep understanding of the users in the markets. Creates user personas for the markets and the roles
• Conduct User research to understand the user problem behind the product feature and provide solutions that exceed their expectations
• Solve complex usability problems and provides designs that work for multiple markets and roles.
• Creates reusable visual and interaction design patterns that can translate easily between multiple products in our portfolio
• Understand the company goals and provides designs that meet the company’s business goals and timelines
• Work in a fast paced Agile environment supporting 1 or more products

• Bachelor’s Degree in HCI, Graphic Design or other related fields
• 7-years of experience designing complex enterprise products on a SaaS platform, marketplace, or other software-led product in an agile B2B environment.
• Experience designing Web applications and Mobile apps
• Expert in using design tools like Adobe XD and Sketch and knows when to use these tools as well as the right fidelity of the designs for the audience
• Strong portfolio that demonstrates the design process from user research to validating the solution
• Experience working with product development and engineering teams
• Experience conducting interactive design sessions with product and engineering
• Ability to understand the business goals and provide designs that meet them
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 5% of the time, within the US

Be the Dude
There’s no one kind of Dude. We are always looking for people that bring new perspectives and life experiences to our team. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspire innovation that runs through everything we do. At the core of our unique culture are our people – so we expect our candidates to have all the “right stuff”. If you are a big thinker, have a passion for technology and great people, embrace creativity, and are genuine in both words and actions, then get ready to do something incredible.

Join our team and be the dude!

Company: Credit Karma
Location:  Charlotte, NC
Learn More: https://boards.greenhouse.io/creditkarma/jobs/4782731003

Credit Karma is looking for an experienced Product Researcher to help advance our team and lead research initiatives for one of our key product teams. As a member of our growing Product Research department, you’ll have a hand in shaping the role of Product Research at Credit Karma and championing a member-centric approach to our products, business, and culture. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys forward-looking intrapreneurial roles, but who is also seeking the stability of a seasoned management team.

Company: IBM
Location:  Research Triangle Park, NC
Learn More: https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?PageType=JobDetails&partnerid=26059&siteid=5016&Areq=482196BR#jobDetails=508876_5016

If you love learning from a variety of professionals, advocating for users in product discussions, and making an impact for users helping them to get work done, we want to speak with you. At IBM, our design philosophy is to help guide people so they can do their best work. Because of Design and Design Research at IBM, planes and trains take off on time, bank transactions complete in the blink of an eye and the world remains safe. Our team is part of the z Systems design organization responsible for maintaining IT Operations (zAIOps) in both hybrid-cloud and traditional mainframe environments utilizing AI-enabled solutions to help our customers make more informed data-driven decisions.

We are looking for an experienced Design Researcher to join our team to deliver great end-to-end customer experiences. As a lead member of this team, you will influence product strategy, drive innovative experiences, and ensure our portfolio is usable, useful, and leads to customer satisfaction.

Company: Jaggaer
Location:  RDU area or Remote within the Eastern Timezone
Learn More: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2736101269/?refId=mfvqpmlNvl0NxQiNLjUZPg%3D%3D&trackingId=3ckUrsVnEAJ6Paq3Cj38kg%3D%3D

At JAGGAER our mission is to provide an outstanding experience for our users. Our Mantra is "Designer to Wow"

Design Thinking is in our DNA. We care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in the product development process. Solving the most challenging supply chain problems requires a culture of innovation, collaboration, and deep empathy for the user. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineers and product managers to create industry-leading products that deliver value for our users.

We are looking for a problem solver to join our team. You are a restless innovator at heart who is constantly thinking about design flaws in the products and services you use. More importantly, you think about how you would fix them. Simplifying the complex excites you. You truly believe that building desirable experiences starts with deep understanding of the users and their needs. You look beyond the UI to design experiences that leverage technology to create great experiences. If this is you, come join us.

Company: Workiva
Location:  Remote
Learn More: https://workiva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/careers/details/Senior-User-Experience-Researcher_R3359-1?q=user+researcher

As a Senior UX Researcher you'll help us simplify complexity by identifying opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement on behalf of the user. Your previous experience as a researcher in software development will enable you to jump right in and design studies that inform decisions for Workiva products.

Your experience makes you comfortable with ambiguity and excited by opportunities to discover solutions for users that meet their needs and exceed their expectations. You'll conduct both qualitative and quantitative research that covers the breadth of customer experiences - proactively using insights to address feature- and workflow-level challenges.

Company: IBM
Location:  Raleigh or Remote
Learn More: https://careers.ibm.com/job/14018397/ux-researcher-remote/?codes=IBM_CareerWebSite

At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities

At IBM, the role of marketing technology is to connect our data systems to communications that engage prospects & existing clients – on the right channel at the right time. Our team oversees the programs and internal platforms that enable this and partners with marketing, sales, and analytics to plan and iterate on them. This role is part of the UX Research team within the Products & Platforms team serving under the CTO, Marketing Technologies.
In this role, you will work closely with a team of designers, product owners, and architects to research and inform the path for the software used by Marketing teams. As a UX Researcher, you will have the opportunity to employ the wide range of research methodologies including field research, remote usability studies, moderated and unmoderated design testing, and survey research.

You will be expected to contribute new methods, patterns and practices to the internal and external UX Research communities. The successful candidate will need to think strategically, have strong research skills, and be able to target and present research findings to different audiences. You will need to be able to juggle multiple deliverables – from quick tests to longitudinal studies, fitting within an agile development schedule.

Additionally, you will need to be detail-oriented and thorough in your approach to the research protocol, but flexible enough to work within time and product constrains. Most importantly, you will need to be a passionate advocate for users and able to demonstrate how User Research leads to measurable business value.

This position will lead or contribute to the following:

• Create artifacts which enable user empathy. This includes reviewing existing research, creating personas and user journeys, creating journey maps, and identifying the most salient pain points for the support tool.
• Collaborate with design, product leadership, and development to iteratively create, show, and assess new design solutions that address the most salient pain points or unmet user needs.
• Evaluate existing designs/live experiences at a point in time using industry standard research techniques and establish baselines for benchmarking the UX over time to track improvements.
• Reuse existing listening channels such as embedded feedback and intercept methodologies to maintain the pulse and user sentiment and combine that understanding with knowledge of user behavior and business outcomes to draw data-driven conclusions and recommendations.

• 3+ years of industry experience
• Knowledgeable and have experience using qualitative and quantitative UX research methods, gathering both attitudinal and behavioral data
• Experience applying the most common UX research methods, including (but not limited to) usability testing, surveys, focus group moderation, interviewing, persona creation, heuristic evaluation, and Design Thinking
• Experience creating prioritized actionable insights derived from user research and showing a path of change as a result
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams and collaborating with stakeholders at various levels across an organization
• Ability to clearly communicate findings and insights to stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple projects at once and work in an agile manner
• Ability to apply UX research approaches throughout the product lifecycle
• Demonstrate a pattern of personal professional growth and contribution to the discipline both internally and externally

Company: Viget
Location:  Durham or Remote
Learn More: https://www.viget.com/careers/senior-visual-ui-designer/

Viget is a digital agency / software development shop headquartered just outside of Washington, DC, (in Falls Church, VA) with additional offices in Durham, NC, Boulder, CO, and Chattanooga, TN. We've been at it since 1999 and have earned a solid reputation as a rare firm that does both great design and development work when building digital products and marketing platforms.

As a Visual Designer at Viget you’ll help our clients concept, design, and launch complex digital experiences and compelling websites. Your work will include all aspects of the design process including discovery, strategy development, UI design, interaction design, and client management. Our visual designers work alongside industry-leading brand strategists, UX strategists, project managers, and developers. In between projects, we share our opinions and write about our methods.

Our Senior Visual Designers:

• Are creative problem solvers and visual storytellers.

• Are trained in the principles of graphic design and have a good foundation of typography, illustration, photography, and iconography to create effective forms of digital communication.

• Have a solid understanding of web design best practices and are skilled in UI design, interaction design, and art direction.

• ​​Are able to translate and extend brand strategies, UX recommendations, and business requirements into innovative design solutions.

• Bring the “wow factor” to projects by helping clients express and reinforce their brand in unique ways that go way beyond aesthetics.

• Understand atomic design principles and can create scalable, flexible visual design systems and UI parts kits that are full of personality.

• Are strong communicators and presenters who routinely articulate design decisions to a variety of audiences.

• Understand that motion is an essential part of interactive design, and ensure that it’s considered.

• Incorporate inclusive design principles and accessibility best practices in their work.

• Are multifaceted and find it exciting that their next project could be a design system, marketing campaign, microsite, or large-scale content website.

• Understand that digital design is fluid, flexible, and adaptive to an ever growing variety of screen sizes, dimensions, and capabilities.

• Are detail oriented, self-motivated multitaskers who consistently meet deadlines and are mindful of budgets and timelines.

• Are interested in continual learning and sharing knowledge with others.

In a given week, our Senior Visual Designers might be:

• Facilitating a workshop with the client’s team, helping to figure out their business goals and project requirements.

• Designing high fidelity design comps to present to stakeholders.

• Creating illustrations and iconography to give their project more personality.

• Developing and documenting a design system for a large CMS-driven website in Figma.

Senior Visual Designers must also:

• Have an online portfolio you can share with us that includes a variety of web and UI design projects.

• Have a degree, certification, or equivalent work experience showing aptitude with visual design.

At this time, we're hoping to hire a senior Visual Designer with 5-7 years experience in digital design.

How to Apply:

Introduce yourself using this application form. Our recruiter, Erica, will respond typically within a day or two.

Before you get in touch, learn more about Emily and Erica on Viget's People Team. You can also get to know us better on Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, Instagram, Facebook, and by exploring pointlesscorp.com.

We maintain a drug-free workplace. We are unable to offer work visa sponsorship at this time.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace. In order to meet the diverse needs of our clients and make the digital world better for everyone, we seek to expand the diversity of our team. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. If you are a person with a disability and require accommodations or assistance during the application process, please email careers@viget.com.

Company: Salt Flats
Location:  Remote
Learn More: https://saltflats.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=32&source=aWQ9Mzc%3D

Salt Flats is an innovation platform with diverse, creative group of disrupters, who challenge the status quo and create tomorrow’s future, today. The Salt Flats team is comprised of thought leaders in entrepreneurship, innovation, corporate strategy, and engineering. Our innovation framework and ecosystem environment, with members in technology, manufacturing, design, change management, start-ups, and venture capital, enables a network of 21st century problem solvers.  Salt Flats is key component of a broader portfolio of solution providers which includes Optimity Advisors LLC and Jumpgate Solutions LLC.

PURPOSE
When someone is explaining a complex process or idea, do you instinctually draw or diagram it in your head or sketch it on paper? Do you want to join a team that values your time, health, and encourages you to share your thoughts?  If the answer is yes, please read on. 

We are seeking a dynamic and talented Lead Digital Product Designer who can apply expertise in user experience design, visual design, and digital strategy to create and execute design solutions that meet the client’s business goals. Our ideal candidate understands how people think, operate, and interact with complex sets of data and is comfortable working with designers, developers, data analysts, and product managers to design the user experience for digital products. We are looking for someone who is competent in all aspects of the design process, bring Lean UX methods and strategic thinking into enterprise projects, and establish and grow relationships with clients.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Design Delivery

• Serving in lead capacity on large, complex projects, create user experiences and visual design strategies and solutions for projects based on business objectives and user research
• Serve as subject matter expert in the defined UX and brand standards and the execution of visual, interaction, and motion design
• Facilitate internal team communication, bridging the gap between visual design, functional development, and content
• Communicate the value of UX, UI, and design thinking to clients
• Lead client engagements from a UX perspective
• Lead participatory design activities, e.g., client workshops, card sorting, to understand vision, business model, and user needs and behaviors
• Serve as the voice of the user while meeting the needs of the client
• Combine UX thinking with design execution to produce usable and intuitive user interfaces
• Illustrate user experience using storyboards, information architecture, process flows, user journeys/personas, and sitemaps
• Use design to communicate complex concepts, whether through conversations, frameworks, or ideas
• Derive actionable insights by leading user research activities and translating insights into prototypes
• Provide coaching and guidance to other product designers on the team to elevate our approach to user experience research and design and promote the craft of UX across the organization
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and project teams to ensure design elements are incorporated into development sprints
• Proactively perform competitive research based on product roadmaps
• Plan and facilitate interactive workshops to build consensus around business requirements and design ideas

• Lead the design team in best practices, design trends, and leading technologies
• Support the development and adoption of design processes, tools, and culture
• Develop, refine, and adhere to design systems and style guides
• Understand and incorporate Design Thinking, Agile Methodologies, Lean Principles and Collective Intelligence into project strategy
• Other duties as assigned

• Strong understanding of foundational design principles including type, layout, use of color, etc.
• Deep understanding of user experience best practices and the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
• Understanding of desktop, mobile web, native iOS and Android platforms, and the ability to provide recommendation when it's best to follow platform-specific conventions.
• Ability to collaboratively go from whiteboard, to sketch, to high fidelity prototype, to live product
• Ability to conduct and apply customer research, including design thinking and rapid prototyping
• Outstanding facilitation, brainstorming, and collaboration skills
• Extensive experience with standard design tools, e.g., Axure, Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction
• Excellent communication, presentation and critical thinking skills.
• Strong sense of collaboration; able to thrive in iterative, cross-disciplinary environments
• Ability to drive consensus via facilitation, storytelling, and brainstorming
• Comfortable trying new things and failing quickly to get to optimal solution
• Open to feedback and willing to learn and improve
• Passionate about creating easy, usable, and smart solutions for humans
• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS a plus

• Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design, Web Design, Visual or Interaction Design, or related discipline with a solid foundation in the principles of design; or high school diploma with UX certification from places like General Assembly, Designation, Nielsen Norman Group, or equivalent with at least 7 years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of each year of secondary education
• 8+ years of experience in a Product Design, Digital Design, or UX/UI Design related role
• Display a strong portfolio which demonstrates work across a range of clients
• Authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis

• Experience with user research, usability testing, and generating test reports
• Experience in the planning and facilitation of Design Thinking workshops
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with designing and implementing web accessibility for web and mobile

Company: Relias
Location:  Morrisville, NC or Remote
Learn More: https://jobsearch.createyourowncareer.com/Relias_Learning/job/Morrisville-User-Experience-Designer-NC-27560/715059001/

Note: Audrey Bryson who is on the Triangle UXPA Executive Council works at Relias. Contact her at abryson@relias.com to let her know you're applying and she'll put in a good word for you with the hiring manager. 

Are you looking for a high energy, strategic, and fast-paced position as a User Experience Designer?  Join Relias, the company changing lives throughout the world by helping healthcare organizations improve their clinical and financial outcomes!

For 11,000+ health care and human service organizations, Relias helps clients deliver better clinical and financial outcomes by elevating the performance of teams. We help organizations across the continuum of care get better at maintaining compliance, developing staff and promoting consistent, high-quality care. Our platform employs assessments to reveal specific gaps in skills and addresses them with personalized and engaging learning, choosing from 7,000+ online courses that meet accrediting board, state and federal requirements.  We are passionate about our products and our clients; what we deliver and the impact we have on the world is truly something you can be proud to represent.  Join us and make a difference.

WHAT CAN RELIAS OFFER YOU?

• Fantastic health and wellness benefits package, including an outstanding 401k match, a flexible PTO program, and a generous and inclusive parental leave policy. Additionally, Relias pays for the employee portion of the monthly healthcare premium!
• Flexible work environment with onsite and work from home options – you choose when you want to come into the office!
• Active Employee Resource Groups open to all employees!
• Comprehensive onboarding program – a great introduction to our company, customers and culture!
• Growth and career advancement opportunities!
  • 20%+ annual employee promotion and transfer rate
  • Multiple development program options – leadership development, professional development curriculums, and Nanodegree options in both technology and data science
  • Professional development gained from conference attendance and participation in organizations like NC Tech

Be a member of the team that owns the design of all Relias products, serving the needs of our users and our business collaborators, while ensuring a useful, usable, and enjoyable user experience.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Contributing to product strategy by facilitating creative, intuitive user experience (UX) design within product teams and with stakeholders throughout the organization.
• Translating concepts into user flows, wireframes, pixel-perfect user interface (UI) design mockups, and clickable prototypes, leveraging the capabilities (and constraints) of our Material-based design system.
• Engaging with users to gain first-hand insights into our design solutions and be an advocate for iteration on their feedback.
• Collaborating with the UX team and other design stakeholders in the organization to continually refine UX processes and resources.
• Other duties as assigned.

YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES IF YOU HAVE: 

• Ability to closely collaborate with product owners and other stakeholders on complex strategic challenges and detailed product requirements.
• Outstanding visual UI design skills, with demonstrated aptitude for clean, clear, well-organized, functional UI spaces that serve professional users in business environments. 
• Demonstrated experience delivering user experiences and user interfaces that serve the complex needs of business stakeholders and end users, and exceed their expectations.
• Confident understanding of (and the ability to advocate for) UX design best practices, user-centered design (UCD), user testing, heuristic analysis, accessibility, and inclusion.
• Commitment to iteration on designs with efficiency and intelligence, based on feedback from users and stakeholders. 
• Strong organizational skills and detail-oriented approach.
• Empathy and aptitude to learn our diverse clients’ business, workflow, and day-to-day experience in order to better deliver impactful, intuitive solutions.
• Three or more years of UX design experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments. 
• Expertise in standard UX software such as Sketch and the Adobe Suite (etc.)
• Experience working with Google Material is a plus.
• HTML5 and CSS skills are a plus.
• Experience designing for (or working in) medical use cases is a plus.

IT WOULD BE NICE IF YOU HAVE:

• Bachelor’s in Arts or Science in Human Factors, Design, or Computer Science

Relias is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free workplace