Infor

Senior Usability Analyst

About Infor

Infor builds business software for specific industries and delivers pre-configured, industry-specific solutions via the cloud. More than 68,000 customers in 170 countries rely on Infor’s applications, services, and 16,000 employees to help overcome market disruptions and achieve business-wide digital transformation by putting the user experience first, leveraging data science, and integrating with existing systems. Join a very talented development team that is helping to build the future of enterprise software with users at the center. We’re working every day to deliver software that is intuitive, engaging, consistent, and effective for the end user and mutually satisfying to the business needs.

What you’ll be doing

●      Partner with development, business analysts, and product teams to create world-class HR, Finance, and Supply Chain software

●      Digging deep into complex user problems and interfaces to create effective, meaningful, and efficient software

●      Creating wireframes, high fidelity mockups, and prototypes

●      Advocate for the user and effectively articulate and defend design decisions

●      Document UI specifications for user interaction designs and solutions, according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely

●      Proactively identify usability issues and work to create solutions before the software release

●      Lead collaborative UI reviews with product stakeholders

Education & Experience

●      Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work/education experience

●      Familiarity with low and high fidelity prototyping tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Axure, Balsamiq, etc)

●      Working knowledge of HTML and CSS

●      3+ year’s experience in user experience design for software applications

●      Experience in creating successful user experience design strategy, which meets user needs, business requirements and company brand promise

●      Experience in implementing and using design systems

Required Skills

●      Excellent communication skills (visual, oral and written) and the ability to interact effectively with peers, internal/external customers, and prospective clients

●      Ability to break down business, software, and usability requirements into functional user strategy

●      Presentation skills, both creation of compelling visuals and in front of an audience

●      Uncanny ability to hone in on the problem, uncover user issues, and concerns before moving to solutions

●      Deep knowledge of best practices in contemporary user experience design

●      Understanding of contemporary usability research methods

●      Understanding of software product development lifecycle

●      Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Figma, InVision, and similar UI/UX design software

●      Ability to break down business, software, and usability requirements into functional user strategy

Preferred

●      Front-end development experience

●      Mastery in creating complex applications, specifically web-based with working knowledge of HTML and CSS

●      Mastery in formulating and maintaining design and usability guidelines

●      Application experience specific to relevant business domain

●      Experience with business object modeling tools and/or entity relationship modeling tools

●      Knowledge of source code management and configuration management

●      Knowledge of Infor Lawson applications