Experience Architect

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Chicagoland Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 22, 2025 Last posted March 22, 2025
Job description
Rocket Wagon is looking for an Experience Architect (UX/IA) to join our team of designers, strategists, developers, and architects and help with client-facing application design. Rocket Wagon works within the space between product strategy and interaction development and with a broad spectrum of clients, from high-profile startups to publicly traded companies on UX design projects ranging from mobile devices to web applications.

Responsibilities

  • Work alongside strategy team to define target audiences' needs, tasks and goals and translate them into creative information architect concepts
  • Collaborate with strategy and visual UI design teams to brainstorm and validate experience design concepts
  • Participate in user research, concept testing and usability testing
  • Understand and utilize usability guidelines and design patterns
  • Organize content into logical categories; and develop structural designand establish the foundation of information access and functional relationships at the site- and page-level
  • Produce site maps, application maps, workflows, functional specifications and interactive or static wireframes to communicate architecture and experience
  • Contribute to overarching UX strategy, by identifying how the proposed application architecture, features, functionality and navigation reflect the strategy and audience objectives
  • Keep abreast of trends and best practices in interactive design, rich media and information design; share these lessons with team members and management
  • Provide competitive analysis of IA and functional design, as appropriate
  • Guide and be a resource for other information architects in their project roles

Qualifications

  • A minimum of 5+ years experience in Web and mobile application architecture design for interactive mediums (e.g., information architect, interaction designer or experience designer)
  • Advanced knowledge of architecture software programs (e.g., Axure, OmniGraffle, InDesign, Illustrator and similar)
  • Experience building and rapidly iterating on interactive prototypes
  • Experience thoroughly annotating and documenting wireframe designs
  • Range of concepting ability, from sketching to high-fidelity prototypes
  • Expert-level familiarity with design patterns for mobile, tablet and Web
  • Excellent organizational, presentation and verbal and written communication skills.
  • An extremely detail-oriented and flexible mindset, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with aggressive schedules (and while juggling multiple projects)
About this role

Summary

Designs web and mobile application architecture, prototypes, and user experience strategies.

Job title

Experience Architect

Experience level

5+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

Chicagoland, no remote work specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

AxureOmniGraffleInDesignIllustratorwireframing

Preferred skills

mobile designdesign patternsinteractive prototypesuser research

Specializations

UX designinformation architectureinteraction designwireframingprototyping
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Unknown location

On-site
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