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User Experience Designer

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The Role

The User Experience Designer at Kin + Carta is responsible for designing exceptional user experiences for Fortune 500 clients. This role involves leveraging UX research, communicating ideas visually, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The goal is to promote modern interaction design patterns, reduce complexity, and create delightful experiences for users.

Summary Generated by Built In

At Kin + Carta, we’ve got opportunities to offer you — for growth, for leadership, for big, world-changing impact and for, dare we say it, fun. We are a global workforce that is committed to building a world that works better for everyone. And that starts with our Kin. That’s why we’re proud of: 
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.kinandcarta.com/en-us/careers/life-at-kin-and-carta/?utm_source=TA_email&utm_medium=retargeting&utm_campaign=EmployerBrand&utm_content=job_description" target="_blank">The life we create within our virtual walls, every day</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.kinandcarta.com/en-us/insights/2024/02/international-great-place-to-work-certification/?utm_source=TA_email&utm_medium=retargeting&utm_campaign=EmployerBrand&utm_content=job_description" target="_blank">Being Great Place to Work certified in all eligible countries</a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.valtech.com/en-us/work/" target="_blank">The work we’ve done with some of the world’s most innovative companies</a></li>
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<h3>The role</h3>
Kin + Carta is seeking a User Experience Designer to help us design amazing experiences for our Fortune 500 clients and their customers. If you’re passionate about emerging tech and have a deep understanding of human-centered design and interaction design read on!
At Kin + Carta, we provide great design through a few key principles. We Instill Confidence for a more confident user, we Reduce Complexity to make experiences feel easy, and we Provoke Delight because we don’t just design for usability, we aim to create experiences that people love.
 
<h3>Role responsibilities</h3>
As a User Experience Designer at Kin + Carta, you’ll be responsible for leveraging UX research insights, communicating your ideas visually, designing concepts for interactions, understanding and organizing complexities, promoting modern interaction design patterns and best practices, and working with cross-functional teams to build and test your digital experiences.
As a trusted advisor to our clients on their digital experiences, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact on their understanding and implementation of design practices. While collaborating with our other experts in design, research, software engineering, quality assurance, technical architecture, and product strategy, you’ll learn something new daily and, we hope to learn from you, too!
<h3>Minimum qualifications</h3>
We want all new hires to succeed in their roles at Kin + Carta. That's why we've outlined the job requirements below. To be considered for this role, it's important that you meet all Minimum Qualifications. If you do not meet all of the Preferred Qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">4+ years of experience</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">A bachelor’s degree in art, design, or equivalent experience in a related field</li>
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<h3>Preferred qualifications</h3>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">Demonstrated excellence in interactive design, information architecture, and translating research into design decisions</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">A portfolio of work proving your visual design ability with platform guidelines (iOS, Android) and responsive web design</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Able to manage your own time on single or multiple projects, whether working independently or collaboratively with a team</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Proficient in design tools such as Figma/Sketch and Adobe products and prototyping tools</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Experienced in Agile, lean, or other iterative product development approaches (design sprints, scrum, kanban)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Confident in presenting work and articulating user experience issues and concerns to team members and stakeholders</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Empathetic with the business and client when constraints are present</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">A genuine interest in building a diverse community of people and practices</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">A compassionate mindset of ethical, inclusive human-centered design </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">A commitment to designing for accessibility</li>
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<h3>About Kin + Carta</h3>
Kin + Carta is a global digital transformation consultancy committed to working alongside our clients to build a world that works better #ForEveryone. We build digital solutions that connect people, data and technology for some of the world’s most influential companies. We are committed to <a href="https://www.kinandcarta.com/en-us/idea/" target="_blank">Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Awareness</a> and keep focus towards balancing our triple bottom line across people, the planet and profit.
After submitting your application, you will hear from a member of our Talent Acquisition team if your skills and experience are a match for the position. Be mindful of recruitment fraud by only replying and engaging with email contacts that end with the '@kinandcarta.com' domain.
We strive to create an inclusive environment for all candidates. If you have any specific requirements or need reasonable adjustments to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know at [email protected].