UX / UI Designer

| Austin

Recently named Best Place to Work by MM&M, The Holmes Report, PR News, PRWeek, and AdAge, W2O is an integrated marketing and communications firm powered by analytics and specializing in healthcare. We’re looking for a pioneering UX/UI Designer to join our team in developing the latest and best tools in our data science and machine learning AI and software development group! As a W2O UX/UI Designer, you will play a vital role in taking brilliant ideas and turning them into awesome cutting-edge solutions for our internal and external customers. Ideal applicants will have experience building products from the start of the product development cycle, and have strong interaction design skills as well as visual design skills.

Responsibilities

Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with designers, researchers, product managers and engineers.
Learn about complex products and user workflows to develop product designs.
Help conduct and use user research to create personas and user journey maps.
Collaborate and develop information architecture of new web applications.
Create low-fidelity designs and translate them to high-fidelity mockups and prototypes.
Collaborate and help concept interactive visualizations of big data.
Work with engineering to implement designs.
Help build and document a design system from existing style guide requirements.
Utilize best practices for grids, Material UI, and accessibility to create visual designs.
Be familiar with web accessibility standards and willing to learn more.
Have great organizational skills to document designs in Figma and Confluence.

Requirements

Minimum 3 years’ experience as a UX/UI designer or similar role.
BS in design, computer science, relevant field or comparable experience in a bootcamp.
Portfolio of design projects.
Experience building products from the start of the product development cycle.
Knowledge of design tools like Figma, Sketch, Invision, etc.
Familiar with Material Design documentation.
Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders.
Comfortable with ambiguity and has a bias for action.
Not daunted by complex product suites and requirements.

Please mention if you have experience with the following:

Data science and analytics knowledge
Experience in scaling organizations
Social media analytics knowledge
Healthcare industry knowledge
Lean UX
Second language a plus (Spanish preferred)

W2O Group offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks, including unlimited and flexible PTO, expanded paid leave for new parents and a Your 4th Trimester™ program that helps new parents transition back to work, and a five-week sabbatical program. Other perks include Income Protection, Retirement plans/401(k) match, and cell phone savings plans. Learn more about our great benefits and perks at: http://www.w2ogroup.com/

W2O Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We foster an environment that embraces diversity. We are stronger with a wider range of opinions, strengths, and backgrounds to achieve our goals.

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Technology we use

Engineering

- C#Languages
- JavaLanguages
- PHPLanguages
- PythonLanguages
- RLanguages
- jQueryLibraries
- jQuery UILibraries
- ReactLibraries
- HadoopFrameworks
- LaravelFrameworks
- Node.jsFrameworks
- CassandraDatabases
- HiveDatabases
- PostgreSQLDatabases

Location

We're located in East Austin, an area flourishing with new, unique businesses. We're neighbors with dozens of restaurants, food trucks and bars.

An Insider's view of W2O Group

What’s the vibe like in the office?

With Covid 19, W2O has fully embraced the work from home culture. We connect with each other daily, but most importantly we are treated as professionals, and we are all given the freedom to do our best work. If anything, this drives all of us. Empowered is not just a buzz word here at W2O, it's how we are all treated and it's who we are!

John

Director

How does the company support your career growth?

One of our core values at W2O is "Make it Happen." This has been true to our culture since Day 1. W2O has a wonderfully entrepreneurial spirit - especially in Austin. As employees, we are always encouraged to chart our own path to better the business and ourselves. There's no template for career growth here. Just passion, grit and a good attitude!

Alexandra

Senior Account Director

How do your team's ideas influence the company's direction?

The technology team at W2O drives digital transformation for our customers, as our business evolves from a traditional professional services firm into a technology provider. This puts the team in the enviable position of being able to strongly guide the direction of the organization toward a new frontier in our industry.

Manoj

Chief Technology Officer

What are W2O Group Perks + Benefits

W2O Group Benefits Overview

W2O has some of the best benefits in the industry - comprehensive and complete!

Culture

Volunteer in local community

W2O encourages giving back and supports employees in all our offices.

Friends outside of work

Eat lunch together

Intracompany committees

Open door policy

Team owned deliverables

Team based strategic planning

Group brainstorming sessions

Open office floor plan

Diversity

Dedicated Diversity/Inclusion Staff

Diversity manifesto

Someone's primary function is managing the company’s diversity and inclusion initiatives

Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Disability Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Health Insurance Benefits

Life Insurance

Pet Insurance

Wellness Programs

Retirement & Stock Options Benefits

401(K) Matching

W2O provides employees with a 401(k) matching plan managed by [provider]. We match 50% of contributions up to 6% of an employee's annual gross pay.

Performance Bonus

There is an Annual Performance Bonus, paid out in March

Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits

Generous Parental Leave

We provide up to 5 weeks of parental leave for the primary caretaker. Acme Co. also provides 5 weeks of leave for the secondary caretaker.

Flexible Work Schedule

W2O provides employees with a flexible work schedule that includes the ability to work from Home when needed.

Return-to-work program post parental leave

Vacation & Time Off Benefits

Unlimited Vacation Policy

Sabbatical

Eligible employees get 30 days of paid sabbatical after their first 5 years of working at the company.

Paid Holidays

Paid Sick Days

Employees receive 10 hours per year of paid sick leave.

Perks & Discounts

Casual Dress

Commuter Benefits

Free Daily Meals

Stocked Kitchen

Happy Hours

Pet Friendly

Acme Co.'s pet policy is dog friendly daily.

Fitness Subsidies

$200 per year provided for Staff Employees to spend on a Healthy product or activity.

Professional Development Benefits

Job Training & Conferences

W2O offers employees professional development opportunities like Onsite training courses and the ability to attend job related conferences and seminars.

Diversity Program

Lunch and learns

W2O hosts lunch and learn meetings.

Cross functional training encouraged

Promote from within

Mentorship program

Our mentorship program includes 1-to-1 program, Cross-department program, Career mentoring, Leadership mentoring.

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