• This is an exciting opportunity to work in the wearables space with Basis, an Client Company. Basis helps people understand their data and take action on it via it s sensor-laden 24/7 health tracker.
• You have curiosity, you want to help people through big ideas and little, but pleasing interactions across mobile, web and wearable interfaces.
• You know what it takes to push great design to market.
Responsibilities
• Design and prototype Client tools and services in diverse creative areas, including graphics, image processing, and emerging technologies.
• Lead design projects from concept research through to production.
• Communicate your ideas with wireframe, mock-ups, prototypes, requirements documents, annotated screenshots, or other methods that help both stakeholders & developers contribute, assess and build.
• Effectively collaborate with various teams and take their needs into account in the new designs.
• Work across multiple projects.
• Actively participate in user research such as usability studies, and ethnographic interviews.
Requirements:
• Portfolio of work including designs from concept to completion, and demonstrating a path from goals to final product.
• 8+ years experience doing product / UX design.
• Demonstrated ability to design, prototype, and evaluate user interfaces.
• Experience designing for mobile (iOS and/or Android), Web and Desktop applications - bonus of experience with tiny weeny little screens.
• Must love the challenge of quickly distilling complex problems into clean, simple design solutions.
• Competency in Visual Design
• Ability to convince strong-minded teams through design leadership.
• BS/BA or higher degree in Human Factors or HCI, Cognitive Psychology, Design, or equivalent course / experience.
• Position is located in San Francisco. Some travel to Santa Clara and Oregon.
• Desirable background and experience
• Design Thinking & UX evangelization
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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Akraya, Inc has consistently ranked among the Best Places to Work by Staffing Industry Analysts and the San Francisco Business Journal. A multiple award-winning, provider of Staffing and Consulting services, we focus on IT, Engineering, Creative and Marketing talent. Akraya has extensive experience supporting Fortune 500 and hot emerging start-ups. Founded in 2001, Akraya is a certified woman and minority-owned, Bay Area Green Business. For over a decade, Akraya has become a preferred vendor of service and talent for across the US and worldwide.