Senior UX Architect

We're looking for someone to start immediately so apply today and if you fit what we're looking for we'll be in touch straight away. Preferences will be given to those already in Saudi Arabia. However, we're happy to consider candidates who are anywhere in the world and looking for a remote opportunity.

Senior UX Architect Key Responsibilities:

• Create information architecture diagrams, UX workflow diagrams, wireframes, proof-of-concepts, and interactive prototypes
• Propose, lead and participate in user research, usability validation and A/B testing
• Create holistic design solutions that address business and user requirements
• Effectively communicate conceptual ideas, design rationale and the specifics of user centred design process
• Foster collaboration and present cohesive interaction, design and user experience approaches to a non-design audience
• Work in partnership with business stakeholders, graphic designers, and developers to design end-to-end experiences using participatory and iterative design techniques
• Act as a UX evangelist, ensuring others understand the value of UX activities and help develop and drive user experience strategy
• Stay up to date with new technologies and trends in the digital design space
• Creating the UX departments vision and provide leadership to the UX team
• Work with the executive management team to define and implement a strategy to achieve company goals
• Delegating tasks and responsibilities while maintaining ultimate liability and accountability for the execution of each of those responsibilities
• Adapt and drive best practices to improve efficiency and effectiveness of UX team
• Ensuring UX team members are highly engaged in UX department activities
• Developing professional individual as well as team development goals and plans
• Identifying and hiring key UX personnel to build the team
• Manage execution and delivery of multiple projects concurrently
• Lead client project / in-house product discovery and strategy workshops
• Assist with and resolve client escalated issues

Senior UX Architect Key Skills

• Great understanding and passion for all aspects of the UX process
• Experience leading UX research and design teams
• Experience dealing with director-level client stakeholders to determine project requirements, scope, and costing
• Experience working in agile environments, with multi-disciplined teams
• Familiar with Lean UX, Design Thinking and Agile software development processes
• Proven understanding of and experience with applying the user-centred design process to large scale digital projects
• Experience creating usable requirements documentation for development teams
• Familiarity with user interface guidelines and best practices for major platforms (iOS, Android, Web) and an understanding of the limitations and tradeoffs of using various development technologies and standards
• Proficient using wireframing and prototyping tools
• Organized, able to think beyond what is asked for, and able to juggle multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast paced, often evolving environment
• Fluent English (both spoken and written) and ideally Arabic

Senior UX Architect Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years related work experience in the role of UX Architect, Information Architect, UX Lead or UX Designer and delivering projects on a large scale and in a complex business setting
• Masters degree with an emphasis on HCI, Product Design, Psychology, Computer Science (or equivalent relevant work experience) preferable
• Experience in using sketch, figma, axure, uxpin, Balsamiq, Invision and other design softwares

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