UX Designer

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. 

• 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.