Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

The Virginia Lottery has an immediate opening for a UI/UX Designer to join our Information Technology Services Department.

The UI/UX Designer will work closely with the Sprint/Product teams with the primary goal of designing the next generation of mobile websites, apps, and other mobile interfaces across multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, and mobile web. The UI/UX Designer will have an evolved understanding of how people use their devices, the flexibility to adapt to new technologies, and a robust toolkit. The individual in this role will be responsible for creating highly usable and intuitive interface and asset creation. All concepts created will be brand-consistent across all mobile experiences that the Lottery provides to our customers.

Essential duties will include:

• Develop intuitive, usable, and engaging interactions and visual designs for mobile native apps as well as responsive web applications.
• Participate in the development process from definition, through design, build, test, release, and maintenance. Provide strategic thinking and leadership.
• Develop high-fidelity prototypes and animations to demonstrate interactive behaviors and transitions on mobile platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the design and development process.
• Stay abreast of UX trends and look for creative ideas and inspiration in parallel analogous worlds.
• Research and track advancements in native mobile applications across iOS and Android devices as well as responsive design patterns.
• Break any design problem down into viable actionable chunks and solve them with clarity and precision.
• Stay on top of the latest standards, changes, trends in the mobile design field.

Note - This position requires in-office work three days per week including Tuesday and Wednesday.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, interaction design, psychology, computer science, or related field.
• Strong graphic design skills, with a good understanding of typography, intuitive layouts, information architecture, and development workflow.
• Strong ability to recognize and predict use-cases and user interaction, including happy path, and edge cases, and incorporate them into designs.
• Excellent understanding of user-experience design for mobile apps and the web, technology trends, and demonstrable design skills and ability to show relevant work.
• Proven ability to deliver high quality designs to customers.
• Proficiency in Figma for prototyping and creating interactive mobile design assets.
• Experience with Zeplin or similar design handoff tools to streamline collaboration with developers.
• A team player who can easily adapt in a rapidly changing environment.
• Expert level skills in the Adobe Creative suite such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and other relevant design tools.
• Deep understanding of Apple’s human interface design guidelines, Android design and other mobile platform designs.
• Understanding of Data Management environments such as Azure DevOps as well as a basic knowledge of relational database concepts.
• Close attention to detail and demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on projects.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and set priorities while ensuring best practices in design, usability and accessibility is a must.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Ability to develop intuitive, usable, and engaging interactions and visual designs for mobile and responsive web applications.
• Experience participating in the development pAtlassian Jira, Backend Development, Bug Tracking, Client Side Scripting, Cross-Platform, AB Testing, Agile Scrum, Ajax, API Development, CSS, Adobe Creative Cloud, HTML, CSS - Cascade Styling Sheets

Job Tags

Immediate start, 3 days per week,

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