Senior UI/UX Designer

Perks & Benefits:

At KCF, we are committed to providing best-in-class benefits, engaging development opportunities, and powerful perks that are focused on bringing out the best in you.

Full-time benefits include:

• 100% company-paid Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance premiums
• Health Savings Account with generous employer contributions
• Flexible work model for most positions, “work from home, work from anywhere”
• Competitive compensation & bonus opportunities
• Four weeks Paid Time Off; Paid Holidays + "Flex" Holiday
• 401(K) with company match
• Monthly cell phone and internet stipend
• $500 annual wellness reimbursement
• Learning culture committed to growth and continuous development

Mission & Values:

KCF Technologies exists to solve the world's machine health problems to drive safety and sustainability for our communities. We empower industry to eradicate downtime, waste, and injuries with KCF's Machine Health Solutions Platform. Learn more at www.kcftech.com

Curious about what working at KCF is really like? Explore Life at KCF here! If you’re an A-player who wants to be part of one of the most important companies revitalizing machine health across the world, KCF is the place for you. If our values resonate with you, please keep reading!

Core Values:

Smarts: We are humbly aggressive lifelong learners.

Grit: We are scrappy, proactive problem solvers who don’t stop until the job is done.

Drive: We demonstrate an insatiable hunger to serve others.

Responsibility: We do the right thing and contribute to the greater good.

Autonomy: We own our work and define how we do it, while aligned with the greater mission.

Where You Come In:

• Are you able to "read" people and situations effectively? Are you able to influence people to accept change or new ideas?
• Are you outgoing, empathic, and intuitive?
• Do you enjoy a roomful of spinning plates? Do you enjoy a variety of assignments at one time?

This is starting to sound like your next challenge, right? Read on for more info!

We are currently seeking a UI/UX Designer to join our growing team! At KCF, you will operate as part of a cross-functional squad with other engineers (Software, Hardware, DevOps, UX/UI, and Machine Learning). As a UI/UX Designer, you will help build and maintain KCF’s SMARTdiagnostics machine health platform, which stores and processes industrial IoT sensor data to provide analytics and insights to our users. This will help us achieve our goal of zero waste, zero downtime, and zero safety incidents for all of industry.

This role can be 100% remote-based. With our Work From Home, Work From Anywhere model, KCF employees are spread across 27 different U.S states. We advocate for owning your work - you define how you do it and where you do it.

Essential Functions:

• Drive UX/UI design efforts across multiple products for enterprise level web and mobile software experiences serving customers in the IIoT space.
• Present design concepts and clearly articulate ideas for ideal user experiences to leaders, developers, and product stakeholders to implement innovative solutions for the product direction, experience, and visuals.
• Remain informed of current design trends and best practices, demonstrate out-of-the-box thinking, and inspire creative thinking and problem-solving skills in teammates.
• Conduct user research by identifying appropriate candidates, framing research questions, leading user interviews, facilitating usability testing sessions and validating design decisions.
• Create a variety of UX/UI project artifacts, including digital whiteboard sketches, process flows, journey maps, and wireframes that result in both low and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Conduct independent and collaborative research and analysis on all aspects of the user experience.
• Frame user problems then translate into visual designs that deliver on customer needs.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience (7+ years) as a UX/UI designer, with a strong portfolio showcasing your design process and deliverables for enterprise software applications (web and mobile)
• Solid understanding of user-centered design principles, information architecture, and interaction design for complex user workflows
• Experience conducting user research and usability testing, and a strong ability to translate insights into actionable design improvements
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively present and justify design decisions to stakeholders
• Strong attention to detail and a passion for creating intuitive and visually appealing user experiences
• Proficiency in Figma
• Possess a high attention to detail and creative problem-solving skills
• Experience working in an Agile development environment preferred

At KCF Technologies, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. The only things we require for employment, compensation, advancement and benefits are performance and a good team attitude. No one will be denied opportunities or benefits, and no employment decisions will be made, on the basis of race, religion/creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions, protected veteran status, medical condition, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, possession of a general education development certificate (“GED”) as compared to a high school diploma, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal or state laws. KCF complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which KCF has facilities.