UX Architect Job at MRM McCann in Birmingham

We are looking for a team member that loves to solve complex experience design problems harnessing their passion for understanding how things work. This position is a focused user experience design role predominately working on customer insights, wireframes and architecture, and ultimately prototypes and specifications.

The MRM UX team is made up of talented designers from diverse backgrounds, education, and cultures, all of whom believe in the MRM mantra that we're better together. Our team culture is rooted in collaboration and our drive to work through problems in understanding our user's context, emotions, goals, and motivations.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion is at the core of who we are as MRM and what we do every day. Through our Blueprint initiative, we want to make sure our workplace is one where everyone is treated with dignity, respect and fairness, and where all creeds, ethnicities and perspectives are welcome.

YOUR DAY AT MRM.

As a UX team member, you will be using research to benchmark competitors, define common patterns, ideate with your project team, and create prototypes for user research or team feedback. As you dive deeper into your projects, you'll find yourself heads down in the weeds, establishing your hypothesis, and working through assumptions.

Our expectations are for you to work collaboratively with your UX colleagues, project team, clients, and outside vendors. Gain trust internally and externally by applying your expertise and practical communication skills.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Apply user-centered design principles and activities to build your subject matter expertise of the business and its customers.
• Product Design for digital experiences and applications for the web.
• Conduct analysis and formulate problem statements, document requirements, and establish solutions built within known scope.
• Justify design decisions to peers / internal teams through reviews and critiques of your solution that consistently present the customer perspective.
• Document your design through wireframes, site architectures and user flows, and specifications.
• Innovative and intuitive UI design that helps users accomplish their tasks, executing cross-device fluid or adaptive responsive layouts and adoption of patterns from existing design systems.
• Demonstrate clear communication, organization, and writing skills.
• Deliver your work professionally, on or before the deadline, with some autonomy and limited oversight.
• Understand and adapt to changing or shifting priorities within or across multiple projects.
• Prioritize and promote user research.
• Conduct competitive benchmarking and analyses.
• Understand different testing methods, both qualitative and quantitative, and effectively communicate your learnings to inform the design process.
• Prototype to conduct user studies that aid in choosing a design direction or validate a concept.
• Demonstrate being a proven team-player and have the ability to earn the trust of clients and colleagues.

BENEFICIAL SKILLS :

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE :

We understand that formal education or time spent within related work experience for UX professionals can vary quite a bit. For this role on our team, we will take all your experiences into account in our evaluation : the certificates you've earned, undergraduate and graduate degrees, relevant work experience, freelance history, and so on.

Ideally, you will have 3-5 years of UX experience, however we do encourage candidates to apply even if you haven't worked as a UX architect specifically.

MRM is an EEO / AA employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, marital status, citizenship, disability, genetic information or veteran status or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. MRM participates in e-Verify.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please submit your request through one of the following methods listed below :

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