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I'm the Director of UX at HYFN, a digital agency in Hermosa Beach.  We're on the lookout for a UX Designer to join our highly skilled team and lead on a variety of client facing projects.  I'm a regular at the LAUX MeetUps and know LA has some amazing UX talent.  HYFN is a great place to work, especially if you like the beach (we're literally steps from the sand).  Please take a look at the job req below and if you're interested let me know!

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UX Designer Position @ HYFN

Job Title: UX Designer

Skill Level: Mid-Senior

Who We Are

HYFN is an award-winning digital agency with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, and New York City. With a strong commitment to meaningful engagement, we partner with business leaders to design and develop groundbreaking, cross-platform solutions to meet the ever-increasing demands of the diversified media landscape and evolving digital culture.  HYFN’s different from other digital agencies in that we offer a full service solution to our clients.  Our in-house, multidisciplinary teams work closely with each other in core competencies that include:

·       UX Design

·       Creative Design

·       Motion Graphics and Video

·       Digital & Social Strategy

·       Custom Product Coding and Development

·       Implementation Launch and Management

·       iOS, Android, Windows, and Air Application Development

We're looking for a mid-senior level UX Designer who enjoys refining their skills across diverse projects, constantly seeks new ways to incorporate UCD principles and methodologies, and someone who simply loves this stuff! Our Hermosa Beach office is located walking distance from the beach, which explains why our offices are littered with surfboards. At HYFN we abide by the work hard/play hard mentality and have cultivated a culture that really embraces radical ideas, endless curiosity, and a constant refinement of skills. Learn more about us at www.hyfn.com

What You Will Be Doing at HYFN

·       Design intuitive user experiences across a wide variety of projects spanning digital, social, mobile, and responsive interfaces. 

·       Push the boundaries of design through a solid understanding of the user

·       Collaborate with HYFN’s top-notch UX and Creative design teams to create cohesive and seamlessly integrated experiences.

·       Implement user research methodologies to gain a deeper understanding of users’ needs and goals.

·       Be an end-user advocate, driving user needs and goals into both creative and pragmatic design solutions.

Duties

·       Generate annotated wireframes, prototypes, sketches, storyboards, site maps, mockups, user flows, personas, and other artifacts required to develop and evolve user experience designs.

·       Identify the best ways to organize information on a given site or app.

·       Collaborate across interdisciplinary teams to retain the vision of the customer experience.

·       Manage UX design projects in a timely fashion with clear goals and accountabilities.

·       Evaluate prototypes with stakeholders to see how they map to various customer needs.

·       Articulate your process through the use of sketches, wireframes, and presentations.

·       Run formative and evaluative usability test sessions at different stages of the design lifecycle

What You Need for this Position

·       BA, BS, MA, or MS in HCI, Psychology, Computer Science or in a related area

·       At Least 2-3+ years of UX, IA or/and UI design experience (Note: UX related work experience will be considered in place of a degree if accompanied by an impressive portfolio)

·       Excellent knowledge of UI design processes and User-Centered Design (UCD)

·       Solid UX and interaction design skills.

·       A portfolio that demonstrates experience in designing interfaces for diverse subject matters and media.

·       Expertise in creating a variety of design documentation including (but not limited to) user scenarios, task flows, conceptual models, personas, competitor analysis, heuristic analysis, wireframes, and prototypes.

·       Strong organizational skills and an attention to detail.

·       The ability to quickly absorb new business domains.

·       A creative and ambitious mindset.

·       Endless curiosity and a constant drive to learn and try new things.

·       Self-motivation, excellent communication/presentation skills, and the ability to thrive in multidisciplinary teams.

·       The skills to balance great design with short deadlines and the highest-standards output.

Additional Skills      

·       Proficient with design and prototyping tools like Visio, OmniGraffle, Balsamiq, Axure RP, and Adobe Creative Suite.

·       Some knowledge of technologies like HTML5, CSS 3, AJAX, JavaScript, JQuery, iOS, Objective-C, Android is a big plus.

What's In It for You

·       Competitive pay

·       Full Benefits

o   Health

o   Dental

o   Vision

o   401k

·       Stock Options

·       Walking distance from the beach (we have regular surf sessions)

·       Working on a fun and energetic team

·       Joining on the ground floor of a rapidly growing digital agency