UX/Service Designer

The EcoVadis Digital Transformation team aspires to create human-centered digital experiences for our workforce and clients and to ensure our digital products support successful mission delivery. As a UX Service Designer, you will apply design thinking approaches and collaborate with cross functional teams to facilitate discovery of problems and opportunities in both digital experiences and business processes as well as co-create solutions to improve the experience, adoption, and mission success of our digital product portfolio.

Our products support our mission in a growing number of ways including delivering reliable, globally recognised sustainability ratings and insights, enabling all companies to reduce risk, drive improvement and accelerate positive impact on our planet and society.

We are looking for a user-experience (UX) focused service designer able to understand our business requirements and any technical limitations, as well as be responsible for conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes. The UX Service Designer will also be expected to design the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing. You’ll work closely with product engineering colleagues on user story development and solution design. You’ll bring a holistic view by researching externally for design inspiration and best practices while incorporating internal constraints such as business and technology policy, compliance, and standards to reduce risk.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with technology, product, and business teams to uncover customer and business needs and translating them into intuitive and engaging digital experience designs that lead to desired mission outcomes;
• Facilitating discovery sprints and workshops to support early-stage product definition by uncovering customer pain points and opportunities;
• Facilitating collaboration and communication between technology and business stakeholders through discovery, design, and product development sprints;
• Adapting industry best practices and creating new service design and business analysis tools, methods, and standards. Promote adoption across cross-functional teams;
• Learn and understand business processes and how new applications or current system enhancements can best ensure the success of business users. Investigate complex operations-related problems/inquiries and recommend, facilitate and coordinate solutions. Evaluate new IT developments, applications and evolving business/systems requirements. Document, analyze, and clarify business requirements and translate into technology artifacts from which technology solutions are developed ensuring adherence to system architecture and software compliance standards.  Define new and enhanced business processes;
• Creating effective visual storytelling artifacts of business and technology concepts to promote decision-making and product design;
• Partner with clients to develop a strategic plan to implement their technology vision. Audit existing and blueprint new digital experiences, identifying opportunities and solutions for improvement and experimentation.
• Creating process and user flows, journey maps and interaction models, and service blueprints, resulting in low to high-fidelity prototypes, artifacts, and tools.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related field required or equivalent experience.

Experience: Minimum 3 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and related experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments.

Skills & Abilities:

• Expertise in standard UX software such as Sketch, OmniGraffle, Axure, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq, Framer, Mural, Miro, LucidChart, Figma, Jira, Confluence etc and the like is a must. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus;
• Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision;
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications;
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism;
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design;
• A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns;
• Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently;
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients;
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.

Location: Warsaw / remote from Poland
Start date: ASAP
Contract: B2B or CoE

Everyone at EcoVadis contributes to a culture of trust, respect and empowerment. Our growing team in Poland is full of talented professionals from various sectors who all share a desire to make an impact. We offer competitive salaries and support personal growth from day one with extensive onboarding, mentoring and a brand new e-learning platform bursting with courses and modules so you can learn new skills and fine-tune old ones.