Remote UX Engineer III
The UX Engineer III is responsible for supporting unifying cross-product user experience strategies, tools, and processes to scaling the UX support of Cofense products and platform development.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities
- Work closely with product counterpart to align on higher-level cross-product UI/UX goals as well as specific features.
- Develop a deep understanding of the applications.
- Leverage product SME insights on how customers currently utilize our products.
- Identify opportunities customers could benefit through alternative task workflows.
- As an effective communicator, engage in constant knowledge sharing with others on the team, and aid engagement across groups, communities of practice, and across products.
- Assists in defining and update scalable user experience guidance and processes for product and development teams that allow them to develop consistent and usable interfaces rapidly.
- Act as a UX/UI subject-matter expert for anyone involved in product development. This role should serve to educate others on both general design principles and also on context-specific ones.
- Supports identifying and implementing opportunities to utilize analytics, testing data.
- Support defining UX KPIs.
- Perform essential usability/user testing and facilitate design decisions.
- Collaborate with product and development teams to identify or produce the leanest artifacts to move development forward based on the project and team dynamics.
- Support the evangelization of scalable processes within the organization as well as UI, UX, and product design distinctions.
- Able to identify UX blockers or other resource restrictions and effectively communicate those issues.
- Able to communicate workload conflicts.
- Regularly collaborates with the UI Engineering team.
- Support the design, strategy, and development needs of design systems.
- Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required
- Proficient in HTML and CSS with knowledge of web standards, advanced layouts, accessibility, and responsive design.
- Strong understanding of web-based design systems.
- Passionate about user experience, building modern interfaces, and collaborating closely with front-end engineers.
- Effective time management.
- Empathy for the end user.
- Constant desire and eagerness to further develop your skillset.
Education and/or Experience:
- At least 5 years of professional experience in product design and web-based UX.
- Previous experience evolving web-based design systems and overseeing integration across a line of products.
- Previous experience utilizing a design system to facilitate rapid prototyping.
- Previous experience conducting user and stakeholder interviews, usability testing, and focus groups.
- Experience performing workflow and task analysis
The above statements are neither intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be a listing of all of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job. This job description is not a contract of employment, either express or implied. Employment with Cofense will be voluntarily entered into and your employment is considered at will. Cofense reserves the right to alter the job description at any time without notice.
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