Associate Director, UX in New York, NY, USA

Overview
VSA Partners is a design-driven branding and marketing company.
VSA was founded as a design firm more than 30 years ago with the belief that design is not only a craft, but a tool for achieving business objectives. As design thinkers, we approach business challenges holistically and aim to break down silos between branding, digital, marketing and advertising.

VSA’s Technology Practice exists to guide and inspire human interaction. At points where brands and business need to engage their audiences, we provide interfaces and design digital experiences that transform interactions, elevate understanding and enhance value.

The Associate Director, UX will be part of a dynamic team that will be responsible for conceptualizing, chartering, designing, and activating the next generation marketing systems, messages, and interfaces. He/she will be responsible for creating compelling experiences that balance user intent, clients’ needs, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Interpret client needs and interact closely with team to create and refine chosen direction, identifying alternative strategies for achieving clients’ objectives.
• Conceive of innovative user experiences that result in improved consumer engagement, brand affinity and content consumption.
• Model proposed user experiences though maps, screen wireframes, workflow diagrams, functionality lists, and prototypes.
• Explain to project teams and clients how proposed solutions deliver on strategic goals, business goals and user needs.
• Have a strong, supportable point-of-view that adapts to changing context or new evidence.
• Identify and structure project activities other senior UXAs can seamlessly contribute to.
• Think beyond individual projects and collaborate directly with clients and develop programmatic solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of information architecture and/or UX design experience.
• Possession of an undergraduate degree; Master’s degree preferred.
• Experience working in a fast-paced agency environment.
• Proven client facing skills, responding well to client input and feedback. - Experience presenting work with clarity, persuasiveness, and as influential business participant when necessary.
• Excellent analytic skills – the ability to break a complex problem into prioritized components.
• Skills in problem solving, judgment, critical thinking and decision-making.
• The ability to see a big idea realized through a series of individual user interactions.
• Drive to see ideas well executed in the end product.

Are you looking to pay or is this a collaboration?
Pay to hire someone

Is this ongoing work or a one off job?
Ongoing work

How would you prefer to pay?
Day rate

What’s your day rate budget range? (USD)
$250-350 (Industry average)

Do you have an estimate of the job or project length?
A few months

Are you a company or individual hiring?
Company

Do you have internal sign off on the hire?
Yes

Do you need to hire for a specific city, country or place?
Yes, they need to be at a location (give location in job title)

When do you want to have the freelancer secured by?
2-3 weeks

What is most important for this job?
Quality

Twine can guarantee 3 relevant freelancers for an upfront fee of $650/£500. Would you like to know more?
No

How many freelancers do you want to contact you?
4-5

Do you have a job specification or creative brief?
Yes (please enter this in the description)

Does the freelancer need insurance?
Yes

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