User Experience Designer – Product Design (UX)

Job description

User Experience Designer – Product Design (UX)

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries – powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 513,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com .

Accenture Interactive

Over the past several years we've seen major advances in the world, and much of it is thanks to digital technology. However, people continue to experience challenges and complexity every day.

People deserve better. At Accenture Interactive, our mission is to not only make every experience people have with our clients meaningful and productive, but also to help improve daily life.

Our team – our Accenture Interactive family – is designed from the ground-up to envision and create experiences that are not just better than what came before, but the best and most transformational on the planet.

Our culture is casual and fun, with best of the both worlds – agency and consulting, with an emphasis on innovation, creativity and freedom to experiment. We put a strong emphasis on mentoring, enablement of growth and learning.

Our colleagues from more than 30 countries act as an interconnected team that exchanges across country borders to ensure maximum efficiency and quality of delivery.

About the role

We are looking for an User Experience Designer to join our growing Product Design practice based out of our new studio in Riyadh. You should have solid foundations in the user-centered design process, and the confidence to collaborate with clients and coworkers to create exceptional digital experiences. In this role you will support UX activities on projects and collaborate with an interdisciplinary design team. You should have an interest in all things digital and technology, a natural curiosity in what makes users tick, and a growing ability to translate business goals into intuitive digital experiences. Above all we are looking for individuals who enjoy solving problems across a broad range of agency engagements.

Roles:

· As part of a cross-functional, interdisciplinary design team, participate in and contribute to user experience activities including audits, user research, research analysis, ideation, sketching, usability testing, hosting and facilitating co-creation workshops, collaborative design sessions, and client presentations.
· Being directly responsible for delivering all aspects of design, from defining customer needs to delivering concepts and prototypes to UI specifications for engineering.
· Create client-facing deliverables such as personas or archetypes, mindsets, user journeys, information architectures, sitemaps, wireframes, prototypes, user research plans, and reports.
· Applying strategic thinking to deliver end-to-end user experience solutions with a focus and ability to articulate design rationale in the context of business and user user needs and business goals.
· Support creative and engineering teams across a one or more projects at a time; the ability to multitask and stay focused on results is essential
· Stay informed on new technologies, trends, and developments within the design and front-end development community.
· Research, analyze, and share insights around users' motivations, goals, and behaviors.
· Very good understanding of digital accessibility in design.
· Contribute towards the creation of design solutions that address user needs and strategic client objectives.
· As part of an interdisciplinary, cross-functional design team, communicate design decisions through frameworks, wireframes, and prototypes.
· Validate concepts through storyboarding, usability testing and contribute to the design and execution of user testing scenarios.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Qualifications & Skills

·  Degree in interaction design, human-computer interaction, or industrial design preferred. Degree in a related field such as library science, graphic design, cognitive science, psychology, anthropology, computer science, or architecture considered.
·  Ability to work independently, multitask, and meet deadlines while knowing when to reach out for oversight/advice/mentoring.
·  Capable of clearly articulating UX design approach and rationale to teams and clients. Accepts direction with an open mind. Comfortable giving and receiving critique/feedback/
·  Knowledge of web based technologies and mobile operating systems and platforms and their impact on the feasibility of design solutions, for example HTML 5, CSS, scripting, iOS, Android, and various similar technologies.
·  Deeply curious and stays up-to-date on latest digital and design trends.
·  Experience with usability testing a plus
·  Articulate, excellent communication and presenting skills.
·  Advanced proficiency with prototyping tools such as Axure RP and Sketch.
·  Ability to work independently and identify and solve problems effectively and efficiently

Why join us?

·  We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues
·  You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools
·  Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards
·  You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends
·  You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live

Next Steps

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