Job: Sr. User Experience Designer

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- Sr. User Experience Designer (110000025M)

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Sr. User Experience Designer (

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110000025M)

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Do you thrive in a fast-paced, high-energy environment? Are you a creative problem solver who enjoys collaborating with motivated individuals from diverse backgrounds? Do you have the drive to make things happen?

If so, this is your chance to help shape the future of model-based design tools in the building industry. You will be responsible for user experience design and usability of best in class applications for the building industry built on the Autodesk Revit platform. You will be part of the team of passionate professionals who take pride in delivering the broadest product portfolio for digital design, visualization, and simulation of real-world projects that reach millions customers around the world.

As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk helps people imagine, design, and create a better world. Autodesk accelerates better design through an unparalleled depth of experience and a broad portfolio of software to give customers the power to solve their design, business, and environmental challenges. In addition to designers, architects, engineers, and media and entertainment professionals, Autodesk helps students, educators, and casual creators unlock their creative ideas through user-friendly applications.

Job Title: User Experience Designer, Req #110000025M

Location: Waltham, MA or Manchester, NH

Responsibilities:

You will lead major projects by:

* Participating in the definition, conceptual design, and detailed design phases of the product development process for one or more projects.
* Establishing and tracking project goals, design tenets, and design and usability requirements.
* Participating in the planning, conducting, documenting of user research such as heuristic evaluations, field observations, interviews, focus groups, workshops, and surveys with other designers and researchers to understand user needs.
* Iteratively designing solutions that satisfy project goals, requirements, and design tenets based on research, design patterns, and UI standards.
* Documenting design solutions through sketches, wireframes, storyboards, UI flow charts, high fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes.
* Documenting and presenting the findings of research to a variety of different audiences.
* Partnering with the development team to drive the successful implementation of designs and to resolve implementation issues.
* Assisting in creation and maintenance of interaction and style guides and pattern libraries.
* Providing leadership by contributing to improvements in methods and deliverables to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the team.
* Representing the AEC User Experience team and Autodesk in the design community through participation in conferences and industry gatherings.
* Maintaining familiarity with other Autodesk products to ensure compatibility with features shared across our product family.

Attributes:

* Exude a positive can do attitude, and have a proven track record in driving to results
* Ability to quickly think and assimilate complex issues and ideas
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Solid group presentation skills
* Excellent skills in problem analysis including the ability to identify and describe the "right" problem from a set of data of varying types.
* Ability to solve complex problems and drive projects from concept to conclusion; work independently, manage multiple tasks, and set priorities with direction or feedback from management and team members.
* Interact with and influence others effectively via teamwork and diplomacy.
* Demonstrates interest in the details and the results of the design process, not just the initial high concept!

Desired Knowledge/Technical Skills:

* A portfolio demonstrating superior design skills and deliverables from a user-centered design process
* Master's degree in a design discipline, HCI, Human Factors, Computer Science, or post-secondary education in related field
* 4+ years' experience in user interface design, or related design discipline
* Experience with ideation techniques such as brainstorming and design workshops.
* Experience with a range of low, medium, and high-fidelity prototyping tools.
* A solid understanding of both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
* Technical background and/or a demonstrable understanding of modern software development processes and concerns as they relate to design
* Verbal and written fluency in the English language and strong verbal and visual communication skills.
* Previous experience designing for complex creative applications, 3d tools, and/or engineering analysis tools, and building industry applications, a plus
* A demonstrated understanding and/or professional background in the building design industry a plus
* Expertise with design support tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Visio

Key Competencies:

* Interpersonal Relationships: Builds trust with co-workers. Resects self and others. Treats people with sincerity and insist credits partners.
* Listening: Seeks clarification and common understanding by giving and receiving feedback, asking questions. Controls own emotional responses and reactions. Employs multiple ways of acknowledging that a message has been received. Encourages and accepts other points of view.
* Teamwork: Works with a wide range of teams across various issues, locations, and time zones. Develops an effective working relationship with each team member. Shows respect for differences and diversity. Identifies and addresses potential problems or issues within the team. Earns trust, respect and loyalty of team members. Coordinates roles, responsibilities and interdependencies of all team
* Flexibility & Adaptability: Makes progress in an atmosphere of ambiguity and uncertainty. Recovers from disappointments and setbacks. Works effectively with unstructured teams, situations, or environments. Creates processes with provisions to accommodate change. Helps others adapt to changing environments and accept new situations. Leverages prior experience as a help towards handling changing situations
* Creativity: Exhibits interest in new ideas and experimentation. Shares ideas and is open to other opinions and views. Explores possibilities and their viability. Analyzes own assignments and work environment for creative changes. Contributes to and encourages new ideas; builds on suggestions of others

Primary Location
: Americas-United States-Massachusetts-Waltham

Other Locations
: Americas-United States-New Hampshire-Manchester

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