Experience Designer - Future Contract Opportunities

The company is a global design and engineering consultancy founded in 1999. We believe that innovation should be meaningful, beautiful and human. We craft practical, powerful digital experiences that improve lives and transform businesses. Our teams [based in New York, Charlotte, Atlanta, London, Bengaluru, Japan and remote] work with a wide range of organizations in many industries, including Healthcare, Financial Services, Retail, Automotive, Aviation, and Professional Services.

The company is part of the company, a digital product engineering company. The company integrates experience design and complex engineering to help our clients imagine what’s possible and accelerate their transition into tomorrow’s digital businesses. The company is a Hitachi Group Company.

About This Opportunity

This is a proactive posting to help us build our network of talented contractors for anticipated project needs later this year. While we don’t have an active project for this role today, we expect opportunities to arise as our client and project needs evolve.

By applying, you’ll be considered for future contract and project-based opportunities that align with your skills, experience, and areas of expertise. Our Talent team will review your background and keep your information on hand, and we’ll reach out directly if an upcoming project looks like a strong match.

Because these opportunities are project-based, timing, scope, duration, and hours may vary depending on the specific engagement. For this type of work, we typically anticipate hourly rates in the range of $84-$127/hour , depending on the project scope, required expertise, and experience level. Specific project details and the applicable rate will be discussed with you when we connect about a potential opportunity.

About Our Team

As a member of our Experience Design team, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary individuals and support the project lead on experience strategy and experience design projects. You will support opportunity framing with clients, structure and run research programs, workshops, and concept explorations and prototype the future of our client’s products and services.

Responsibilities

• Define digital product and service solutions with different disciplines in a highly collaborative environment

• Contribute to planning, conducting, and interpreting primary and secondary research to inform the user interaction and visual direction of a product. Research methods include user and business stakeholder interviews, usability evaluations, concept validation, and usability testing

• Contribute to planning collaborative workshops and work sessions with internal and external teams, and lead sections as appropriate

• Contribute to the creation of experience artifacts including archetypes, customer journeys, service blueprints, ecosystems, design artifacts, prototypes etc.

• Take ownership of your area of expertise to elevate the project vision and carry it forward

• Impact Method through common missions that better serve our projects, our people and the world at large.

Qualifications

• Experience in design research, digital strategy, digital product design, and/or service design. Your story/portfolio reflects a solid foundation in understanding the complexity and intricacies of business problems. Your work to solve these problems is an appropriate mix of pioneering and pragmatic.

• Undergraduate and/or Masters Degree in Design[product, visual/interaction, architecture, industrial], Human Factors, Engineering [mechanical] or equivalent professional experience

• Excellent verbal/written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to successfully articulate your work and its intent to your team and your client

• A unique point of view. You are trusted to question approaches, processes, and strategy to better serve your team

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