UI/UX

• Location: Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey
• Type: Contract
• Job #1569

Job Functions, Essential Duties, And Responsibilities

• Deeply learn and understand current product lines, customer experiences and business development plans.

• Perform user research and develop information architecture, user goals, journey maps, and design wireframes and visual interfaces.

• Create compelling interactive experiences and continuously elevate the customer experience.
   

• Collaborate with developers to ensure pixel perfect execution across all deliverables.
   

• Work with various stakeholders to gain insights into the business and project objectives
   

• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems.
   

• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps.
   

Experience, Skills, Knowledge Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred but not required.

• 3+ years of progressive, related work experience and a commitment to creating outstanding user experiences.

• Track record of success with cross-functional teams, including engineering teams. The ability to drive clarity and efficient problem solving.
   

• Significant experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps, and using data to influence design.
   

• Deep background with Photoshop, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, or other visual design and wire-framing tools.
   

• Exceptional visual design skills and thorough understanding of user-system interaction.
   

• Work experience using an Agile/Scrum development process and applying modular design principles.
   

• Capacity to thrive in a fast paced environment, juggling multiple projects and meeting tight deadlines.
   

• Stellar organizational, analytic and communication skills, and the ability to methodically solve problems across teams.

• An energetic, agile-minded, optimistic, pragmatic and collegial team-player.
   

Compensation and Benefits

Colonial Surety offers:

• A competitive starting salary based on experience, with achievement based opportunities for annual bonuses and increases.

• Opportunities for professional advancement. We value big thinking tied to practical, collaborative execution in a structured and growth oriented company. 

• Ongoing mentoring from senior staff and periodic opportunities to attend industry seminars and workshops.

• Starting on the first day of hire, all Colonial employees can begin participating in our excellent Major Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance plans.

• Paid holiday and vacation time, which starts in the first year of employment and increases with tenure.

• A modern, professional, suburban office space, concentrated work day (8:30-5:30) and business-attire environment.

• We enjoy a professional, collegial and positive work atmosphere, sharing camaraderie and rooting for individual and collective success.