User Experience (UX) Designer

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Job Summary:

Greenstone, a Cultura Company, makes innovative, integrated solutions and services for Ag business. This includes business management, commodity management, agronomy, trading, patronage solutions and much more. We are the growth-focused leader in the ag business market.
If this sounds good to you, please take a moment to review our website www.greenstonesystems.com
Greenstone is looking for self-driven and motivated User Experience Designer to join our team! As a User Experience Designer, you will create meaningful and cohesive end-to-end experiences through a deep understanding of our customers and exceptional design execution within desktop, web and mobile application platforms. You will collaborate with product managers and developers to build the next generation of agribusiness solutions by bringing the customer to the forefront in everything we do.

Job Description:

The Position:

This position will serve as the all-around designer and will possess both interaction and visual design skills. A successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced work environment that requires strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. The candidate should have a passion for empathizing with the needs, challenges and behaviors of our customers and our business and how to solve them through design.

Responsibilities:

• Document, update, communicate and enforce user interface standards and guidelines for the development process.
• Partner with the product management team members to execute design ideas using the Lean UX (User Experience) Design process.
• Contribute to the creation of high-quality deliverables on a work stream with minimal oversight and guidance, managing work on a schedule.  
• Suggest, create and execute UX research methods
• Leverage customer feedback, in-depth site analytics, internal subject matter experts, and research findings for UX design approaches.
• Develop insightful workflows and simple solutions to complex interaction design problems.
• Demonstrate judgment in choosing appropriate deliverables, such as user stories, use cases, workflows, prioritized feature lists, conceptual diagrams, information architecture, wireframes, low-fidelity mockups and click-through prototypes.
• Write and execute user interface test cases as part of the development process (so that others can test and or automate those cases later).
• Document findings and suggestions for improvement in the issue management / backlog system.
• Drive the design and delivery of customer facing release documentation and assist with improving the clarity and usability of internal and other external documentation.
• Participate in standup meetings and retrospectives based on commitments made in sprints.
• Upon request, assist the Marketing team with web-site development by applying established UX techniques.

Job Qualifications:

• Technical College, Associate or Bachelor degree in the study of design including one of the following: Design, Information Architecture, Human Factors or equivalent project/portfolio experience.
• An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating industry leading user-centered design solutions
• Knowledge of creative tools used by designers and when to use them appropriately
• At least 4 years of design experience.
• Understanding of UX methodologies including the ability to explain and help others follow Lean UX and design thinking workflows in an Agile software development environment.
• Experience with mobile platforms, including mobile phones, smartphones, and/or tablets, along with related popular mobile operating systems.
• Possess a general awareness of technology mediums (ex: JavaScript, HTML/CSS) including differences between them.
• Knowledge of essential channels and platforms, with experience in desktop and mobile solution design.
• Proficiency with Figma
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite with emphasis on Excel
• Be a team-player with an entrepreneurial mindset, with the ability to influence others with the motivation and assertiveness to bring forth new ideas and initiatives.
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills along with strong oral, written communication and presentation abilities
• Occasionally travel to observe customers and meet with teammates and customers.
• Work hours that overlap with our customers (primarily Central time, secondarily Eastern and Mountain times).
• Clearly, concisely and compellingly communicate in English with teammates and customers.

*This is a remote based position with office options in Alpharetta, GA or Ankeny, IA.

The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines. They may vary from position to position.

EOE/M/D/F/V

Worker Type:

Regular

Number of Openings Available:

1