Junior UI Designer

Posted Feb 10

Full Job Description

Company Description

Merkle is a technology-enabled, data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company. For over 30 years, Fortune 1,000 companies and leading nonprofit organizations have partnered with us to build and maximize the value of their customer portfolios. We are champions for meaningful progress and aim to be a force for good—for our people, our clients, the industry, and our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding, and learning so they can grow. We embed diversity in our mindset, products, and teams to empower an inclusive, equitable, and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators and our clients, driving better outcomes. Merkle is an agency of dentsu.

Job Description

Our product teams at Merkle are passionate about building products that directly affect people's lives. As a UI Designer, you will work with both the design team and our development teams to produce engaging, intuitive, enjoyable user experiences for end-users. Reporting to the Group Creative Director, you participate in product discovery and delivery. You work with our clients to understand their needs and with end-users to understand their goals. Working with the Product Owner, you help develop a product vision on projects that will focus on dynamic work ranging from platform design to e-commerce, with expanding opportunities as the account grows. You craft product solutions and present them to the design team, the development team, end-users, and partners, to collect feedback and iterate toward the best solution. You establish patterns and create familiar experiences that reduce the end-user's cognitive load.

Responsibilities

  • Understand product specifications and user psychology
  • Conduct concept and usability testing and gather feedback
  • Proactively identify and pursue design opportunities within and across products
  • Learn and grow on a large global client and collaborate with internal and external partners
  • Hold design work to a high standard of craft, including accessibility, user research, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design.
  • Find creative ways to solve UX problems (e.g., usability, findability)
  • Work with UX designers to implement attractive designs to create diverse impactful work
  • Communicate design ideas and prototypes to developers
  • Remain current on competitor products and industry trends
  • Advance a culture of human-centered practice within UX, product, and engineering teams

Qualifications

  • 1-2 years of experience as a UX Designer, UI Designer, or similar role
  • A current portfolio of design projects
  • Proficient in visual design and prototyping tools programs such as Adobe Photoshop, XD, Figma, and Sketch
  • Knowledge of human-centered design craft
  • Continued education and research into UX trends and current design strategies and technologies
  • Account for challenges and want to improve data for the best possible outcome
  • Experience creating storyboards and website mapping
  • Familiarity with interaction design and information architecture
  • Develop wireframes and prototypes around customer needs
  • Excellent collaboration and skills
  • Experience building relationships with many cross-functional partners

Additional Information

The anticipated salary range for this position is $51,000-83,000. Salary is based on various factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, job-related qualifications, and geography. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and other benefits are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.

Employees from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds encouraged to apply.

Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact recruiting@dentsuaegis.com if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.

About dentsu

Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society www.dentsu.com.

We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.

Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact recruitingops@dentsu.com if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.