Product Designer
Accenture
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Design & Digital Products - a part of Accenture Song - creates value for our clients, their employees, and their customers. We conceptualize, design and build experiences and services that change the way people work and live. Our team is made up of 300+ employees across the US and Canada. With expertise in service design, experience/product strategy, project management, QA, design thinking, user-experience design/research, and impeccable development for native mobile, web, and embedded systems, we will help bring any service or product to reality.
Job Description:
You are a rising Product Design star. You have incredible design thinking chops and can recognize good UX from bad. Your design execution and aesthetic choices elevate the product you are designing. You aspire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, moving frequently from project to project. You are inspired by mobile design and follow the latest design trends. Above all, you are a talented, fun, collaborative person.
The work:
Design beautiful user interfaces, with a focus on digital interfaces
Promote best practices in UI, UX, and interaction design
Are able to hand off pixel perfect design documentation (including annotations) to developers
Participate in strategy and brainstorm sessions with clients, to help articulate and define their goals
Contribute wireframes, user flows, interaction prototypes, user personas, customer journeys, site maps, and other design specification materials
Conduct heuristic and functional reviews of other digital experiences
Apply design thinking to create world-class digital experiences across multiple platforms and channels, by bringing together user needs, business goals and technical realities
Translate concepts into designs that illustrate simplicity despite system complexity
Create instant tangibility for the team and the client through storytelling and rapid prototyping methods, ranging from paper sketching to digital prototyping
Work directly with customers, peers and creative leads to design end-to-end experiences using participatory and iterative design techniques including observational studies, customer interviews, usability testing, and other forms of qualitative and quantitative research to uncover insights, learn about user behavior and verify design concepts
Effectively communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually
Work closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented
Collaborate effectively with remote and onsite team members, including but not limited to designers, researchers, project/product managers, QA, developers, and technical architects
Participate in and contribute to project debriefs, project templates and design POV’s
Mentor other novice design practitioners
Collaborate and consult with clients and stakeholders on design decisions
Have a Human Centered Design approach in solving user needs with deep customer empathy
Here’s what you need:
3+ years’ experience in digital design
A University Degree is required for this position
You’re comfortable designing within iOS and Android native, Web Responsive, and additional platform guidelines using Figma (primary), Adobe XD, the Creative Suite, and other design tools
Eligibility to obtain Security Reliability clearance in a reasonable timeframe
Bonus points if:
You’re comfortable in Sketch, Axure, the Creative Suite, and other relative tools to design for digital interfaces
You have experience with client-facing projects, ideally in consulting, agency or other business-related services
You have a willingness for reasonable business travel to work with onsite teams and clients
You have Accessibility knowledge and how to apply it to product design (WCAG 2.1 or 2.2 AA)
Graphic and Visual Design skills
You’re experienced with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with external clients and their customers, along with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management and user research
Consulting experience delivering and supporting business development
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