UX Designer/Developer - REMOTE (US)

Responsibilities

The Hexagon Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial User Experience team supports our customers in making the world a safer place. If you enjoy working with distributed, multi-disciplinary teams to design and develop innovative solutions that support users solving challenging problems in real time, you have come to the right place. The UX team works directly with customers in the public safety, safe/smart cities, and security industries. Because our customers are the first responders in times of emergency, designing and developing tools that help them succeed is exciting and meaningful work.

The UX team includes visual and interaction designers, user researchers, UX Quality Assurance (QA), and UX Editor working across many product portfolios within our division. We are looking for talented professionals to plan and execute complex assignments in the development of global products and solutions, with an emphasis on application usability by a large number of office and mobile users.

The ideal candidate will support the larger team by performing the following UX design tasks:

• Support the development, maintenance, and delivery of the UX design system
• Support design and development of user experience for software products from conception to delivery
• Support the user research team in the creation of prototypes for user studies
• Collaborate with designers, user researchers, software developers, Product Management, and Marketing to ensure the delivery of excellent user experiences
• Keep up to date on changing front-end technologies and how they can be applied to the tools provided by the UX team
• Research and evaluate emerging trends in interaction and interface design and match those to users’ needs Required: BS in Computer Science or related degree

Education / Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in front-end design of web and mobile applications
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks
• Experience building reusable components and front-end libraries
• Background in web design and development a plus
• Experience building and using web APIs a plus
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and ability to work effectively with customers, users, and other product team members
• Ability to lead discussions with stakeholders and other development team members
• Enthusiasm for an agile, iterative design process, driven by customer needs and requests
• Ability to collaborate with distributed team members to create and communicate content strategy
• Collaborate with designers and user researchers to design, create, and execute usability tests
• Ability to travel to customers sites (10-25%) to engage with users through ride-alongs, interviews, and usability tests
• Ability to perform tasks that require moderate physical activity such as: walking 2 miles, standing for extended periods of time, lifting and carrying 25lbs (for example, a backpack containing a laptop and other user testing equipment)
• Strong knowledge of React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Experience with React Native for mobile projects
• Experience with Git version control to manage changes
• Experience with frameworks like Angular, Vue.js, NextJS, SvelteKit

About Hexagon

Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications.

Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division helps clients design, construct, and operate more profitable, safe, and sustainable industrial facilities. We empower customers to unlock data, accelerate industrial project modernization and digital maturity, increase productivity, and move the sustainability needle.

Our technologies help produce actionable insights that enable better decision-making and intelligence across the asset lifecycle of industrial projects, leading to improvements in safety, quality, efficiency, and productivity, which contribute to Economic and Environmental Sustainability.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 25,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 5.4bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

Why work for Hexagon?

At Hexagon, if you can see it, you can do it. Hexagon’s Asset Lifecyle Intelligence division puts their trust in you so that you can bring your ideas to life. We have emerged as one of the most engaged and enabled workplaces*. We are committed to creating an environment that is truly supportive by providing the resources you need to fully support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.

• In the recently concluded workplace effectiveness survey by Korn Ferry, a global HR advisory firm, Hexagon, Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division has emerged as one of the most Engaged and Enabled workplaces, when compared to similar organizations that Korn Ferry partners with.

Everyone is welcome

At Hexagon, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Everyone is welcome—as an inclusive workplace, we do not discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.

Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You are valued here.