User Experience Designer

Sentry has an opportunity to join our Digital Marketing team! If you have a passion for creating user-centered designs, and experience with User Experience Design processes, conventions and tools – this is an exciting opportunity to help build a growing area within a Fortune 1000 business. As a User Experience Designer, you will create innovative user experience (UX) solutions that achieve our business goals and objectives. In addition to creating interactive prototypes, you will conduct market research, design user flows and perform testing to gauge the needs and priorities of users. You will work closely with IT and marketing teams to ensure the delivery of solutions are both feasible and align with business’ goals and objectives – all while staying abreast to the latest trends and technologies. This position can be hired as a User Experience Designer or Associate User Experience Designer depending on the selected candidate's related skills and qualifications.

As a User Experience Designer, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional team of marketing, business unit stakeholders, product managers and developers to understand business objectives, target customers and technical constraints. Additionally, you will:

• Conduct research to understand product specifications, user psychology and website usability

• Translate research findings, business requirements and feedback from cross-functional teams to complete UX designs on enterprise initiatives to deliver strategies and concepts that are relevant and innovative

• Define and create information architecture (sitemap), wireframes and interactive prototypes to make modifications to current products or assist with new enterprise solutions that meet the business goals and objectives, while also creating an intuitive user experience

• Present design concepts, user needs and design rationale to business stakeholders to ensure designs meet business strategies and customer needs

• Conduct concept and usability testing with internal users on proposed web solutions, designs and websites for existing systems to gather feedback, identify opportunities and validate designs

• Coordinate the development and delivery of all marketing assets for assigned UX tasks and/or projects. Provides marketing deliverables to the IT development team and collaborates with IT to ensure marketing and business unit requirements are met

• Conduct acceptance testing on enhancements to existing systems or participates in acceptance testing on new systems.  Provides findings on defects or enhancements to marketing team and development team with recommended solutions to ensure all objectives of the project have been met

• Validate UX design enhancements and solutions internally by developing and completing usability testing, evaluating traffic patterns and studying user feedback.and technologies