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We're looking for makers, collaborators, and individuals who breathe design – individuals who always want to make digital experiences just a little bit richer and more meaningful. Tell us what you're great at, tell us what you love doing, and why you're ready to join Slalom Boston's Experience Design team. We want to hear from you.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with clients and internal teams to design the overall user experience for a wide variety of digital experiences and applications, from desktop to mobile and whatever’s next—addressing things like interactions, information architecture and visual design
- Plan, conduct, and lead client white-boarding sessions, design sprints, design workshops, and project meetings
- Prototyping (ranging from low to high-fidelity with interactions and visual design) solutions and iterating them based on user insight and client feedback
- Develop, produce, and iterate wireframes, information architecture diagrams, clickable prototypes, UI guidelines and design assets
- Help clients better understand their users – through helping structure and assist with user research and evaluating usability of finished designs
- Advise clients of current UX/XD methodologies, while maintaining flexibility and adapting to their methods
- Work with development teams to refine scope and ensure accurate implementation
- Bring your own outstanding UX perspective to solving exciting design challenges
- Estimate UX project efforts for new business proposals
What You'll Bring
- 3+ years of experience designing and delivering services/products in cross-functional teams from start-to-finish
- 2+ years of relevant client facing experience either in a digital consultancy or digital agency
- Experience using design tools such as Figma, Sketch, and/or Adobe XD
- Ability to work within a modern Agile/Scrum/Software delivery lifecycle.
- Breadth of experience along the spectrum of UX design and ability to wear multiple hats
- A strong portfolio of work samples that expresses your design experience and original approaches to the challenges. Your portfolio should show your end-to-end design process, not just the final solution.
- Strong interest in designing for emerging technologies, mobile UX, and an aptitude for learning new technologies
- Experience using data, user research and other approaches to help make recommendations and iterate on the product
- Experience crafting personas and customer journey maps and other research deliverables preferred
The Details: Position located in Boston, MA; Slalom operates under a local consulting model and we treat travel as an opt-in only. It is unlikely that travel outside of your local market would be required.
The Process: Our process is highly personalized. Some candidates complete their process in one week, others can take several weeks or even months. Deciding to take a new job is a big decision, so regardless how long or short the process may be for you, the most important thing is that you find your dream job.
About Us: Slalom is a modern consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. In 39 markets around the world, Slalom's teams have autonomy to move fast and do what's right. They are backed by regional innovation hubs, a global culture of collaboration, and partnerships with the world's top technology providers. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Seattle, Slalom has organically grown to over 8,000 employees. Slalom has been named one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For five years running and is regularly recognized by employees as a best place to work. Learn more at slalom.com.
The Benefits: Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud it invest in benefits that include: meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer additional benefits such as a yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being related expenses as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Legally, we need you to know this: Slalom is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
But we want to add this: We support workplace diversity. We truly believe that diversity of experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company and better solutions. We are working hard to increase the diversity of our teams wherever we can, and we actively encourage everyone to consider joining us.
