UX Designer for Major HealthCare Company in Los Angeles

This is an AMAZING opportunity with an Award-Winning UX Team for one of the largest HealthCare providers in the Country.
This is LONG TERM and VERY STABLE. I have had contractors there for long periods as well as those who are offered permanent roles.

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A STABLE, LONG TERM CONTRACT with GOOD WORK/LIFE BALANCE, then this is it!

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are looking for someone who thrives doing User-Centered Design and helping to create a great User Experience (UX). The Interaction Designer will be responsible for information architecture, wireframe design, applying patterns to new features and involvement in user research efforts. A successful Interaction Designer must be able to work with minimal supervision on multiple concurrent projects.

The Interaction Designer will also be involved with designing and conducting user-centered design research, identification of user needs and goals, and usability testing such as rapid iterative usability testing and design, heuristic evaluations, and in-depth usability testing.

You will be expected to:

• Develop effective interactive design solutions that meet business, project, and design goals, based on standards and guidelines
• Collaborate with colleagues in other functional groups (e.g., Creative, Technology, Product Management, Marketing and Production) to deliver on website and feature development and ongoing enhancements
• Create IA and user experience documentation and contribute to the development of processes and best practices
• Participate in design team and project team meetings
• Understand site visitor needs by developing personas and conducting user research efforts
• Contribute to site and project requirement definitions including analyzing/reconciling user, business, and technical needs as regards IA and UX
• Responsible for the creation of consistent information hierarchies for site navigation on both a site-wide level and a page-specific level, while adhering to design uniformity within and across projects
• Evaluate existing and new designs for quality and consistency, ensuring scalability of design on projects
• Develop detailed navigation flows, site maps, wireframes and interface design/ functional specifications that capture site processes and all user interaction points with the system
• Evangelize good user experience and innovative and engaging interaction design
• Updating and maintaining a Design Pattern Library

Qualifications include:

• 3-5 years of Web Interaction Design experience
• 3-5 years of usability testing experience with an emphasis on Web usability testing and evaluation.
• A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• A strong working knowledge of and experience applying statistical analysis to usability assessments.
• Sensitivity to the physical, cognitive, emotional, environmental, social, and cultural needs of the online audience
• Ability to effectively negotiate conflict and persuade others on the merits of a design or other user experience solution
• Ability to assess, prioritize, and make tradeoffs in considering business, technical, and user constraints to design
• Experience designing UI solutions for consumer-focused Web sites and applications
• Experience with interface design tools like Dreamweaver, Visio, IRise and similar applications
• A minimum of 3 years experience designing high-quality online solutions and working with a cross-functional team of user-centered designers and business stakeholders
• Comfortable setting up video and computer equipment for testing.
• Demonstrate good written and verbal communication skills including presentation skills.

Tools:

• Visio
• iRise (nice to have)
• Open to others as well

NICE TO HAVE's:

• Healthcare, Financial Services
• Online Services, Member Services, Customer Services, Personalized Content
• Consumer facing sites
• Agile or iterative process