(Pittsburgh, PA)

User Experience and Information Designers play both a tactical and strategic role on the Digital User Experience & Design team.  They work closely with all levels of business stakeholders across marketing, product, sales and technology to take digitalprojects from inception to launch, playing a role in one of the following areas [but with strong working knowledge in all: visual design, information organization and visualization, user interface design, and/or usability and research).  UX strategists should have exceptional collaboration and communication skills, working to bring business objectives to life by building innovative digital experiences for social, mobile, web, and other digital channels, working with either internal delivery teams or with external digital strategy and design partners. UX strategists provide design expertise and execution throughout project lifecycles as well apply hands on experience in order to develop and deliver UX artifacts as needed.

Responsibilities * Provide expert delivery in visual and information design to project teams on multiple, complex projects. * Responsible for understanding business problems and collaborating with project teams and key stakeholders to drive projects. * Work cross-functionally with customers, stakeholders, and partners to understand their business goals, strategies, and technology challenges. * Collaborate with team members in creation and/or review of project deliverables, including but not limited to: concept sketches, storyboards, wireframes, low-fidelity prototypes, and hi-fi screen designs. * Use insight gained via research, analytics, competitive activities and emerging trends to inform UX design opportunities. * Keep management informed of project activity, interdependencies, challenges and opportunities.

Skills * Application of Human centered design methods * Sketching, storyboarding, typography, image manipulation * Low-fidelity prototyping to demonstrate interactions (paper, Axure, Balsamiq, etc) * High-fidelity design execution of information graphics, user interfaces and imagery * Proficiency in visual design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign

Minimum Requirements * Bachelor's degree in interaction design, visual design, communications, or related field or equivalent work experience * 5+ years' related, progressive experience delivering consumer-facing digital experiences * Excellent interpersonal, presentation, communication and listening skills * Experience working in web, mobile, app, social

Preferred Requirements * Digital agency experience * Healthcare experience * Broad understanding of technologies used to deliver digital experiences, including but not limited to Flash, HTML5, jQuery, javascript, etc.