**Message to applicants – candidates must submit a portfolio or link to portfolio that demonstrates a fundamental understanding of UX design principles to be considered**

Summary:

As a member of the User Experience (UX) design team, in collaboration with other University Marketing disciplines and campus units, the Sr. UX Designer combines the synergistic practice of aligning business needs and product requirements to create user-focused and intuitive products, interfaces, platforms for mobile and web. The Sr. UX Designer also combines an inspiring visual sensibility, interaction design best practices and user research to enhance Ohio State University’s brand image within University Marketing and The Ohio State Digital enterprise.

The ideal candidate demonstrates meticulous attention to detail, cross-disciplinary project leadership, a proactive work style and comfort navigating ambiguous environments.  Focused on developing scalable, inspiring and seamless digital solutions, the selected candidate will lead the ideation, creation, and alignment of digital experiences within a fast-moving marketing environment while advising, consulting and partnering across disciplines, including full-stack developers, other designers, project managers, strategists and writers.  The Sr. UX designer has demonstrable knowledge and expertise with UX deliverables (i.e. userflows, sitemaps, wireframes, wireflows) and user-research methodologies, will be a champion in design principles, and is able to multi-task projects of varying complexity structures concurrently.

With an expert understanding of product and web design lifecycle, the Sr. UX Designer assists the UX Director in partnering with University Marketing disciplines to align with strategies that enhance omni-channel experiences across the enterprise while possessing the ability to manage time wisely across projects and competing individual/team priorities.  They are also expected to exhibit the behaviors associated with the Office of Advancement’s core competencies:  Leadership, Continuous Improvement, Teamwork and Collaboration, and Communication/Interpersonal Effectiveness.

Duties and Responsibilities

60% Technical Execution:  Ideate and create UX deliverables (sitemaps, wireframes, libraries, user flows, concept maps, wireflows); Design and prototype digital experiences and interactions for effective hand-off to the UI/Digital team to execute visual styling; Documents and communicates technical requirements; Compile deliverable and research findings presentations.

25%  Concept and Direction:  Plan and facilitate user research, synthesize findings into actionable reports and deliverables; research and share best practices and UX trends/best practices/usability research; Conduct user research and work with Analytics team to validate design decisions; Support in the management of freelance talent, agency partners and internship program; Ideate, create and maintain digital UI brand elements and guidelines; Guide, coach and mentor peer designers.

10% Strategic Vision:  Translate partner, business and user needs/goals into creative user-centric digital solutions; Collaborate and partner enterprise-wide to enhance the digital experiences across the university; Support in leading cross-functional University Marketing and partner working sessions; Support in team management to align with University Marketing goals.

5% Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual communications) or Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience; 5 years of digital design experience in a professional environment; Working knowledge of UX disciplines including interface design, information architecture, usability and interaction design; Demonstrated expertise of building, implementing and maintaining user-centric omni-channel experiences; Professional working knowledge of user research methodologies, best practices for user research, and ability to persuade others with research findings and recommendations; Proficient in SketchApp and/or Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) or similar design tools; Strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience and relevant, user-centric digital design solutions.

Desired:

Expert proficiency with Adobe CC and/or SketchApp or similar design tools; Master’s degree in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual communications) or Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) related field; Experience working in a large matrixed organization; Experience working in higher education.

In accordance with the Disaster Preparedness and University State of Emergency Policy 6.17 this position has been designated as a standby position.

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The Ohio State University is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, disability status, or protected veteran status.

The company: Root is a company of 500 and (mindfully) growing. In March of 2015, we set out to build an insurance solution that did two things: 1) gave an unprecedented easy user experience and 2) used modern data to more accurately predict risk. We created a mobile car insurance app, and we changed the entire industry in the process.

The culture: Root is a venture-backed technology company. Our early signs of success are in large part due to our unwavering standards in hiring. We recognize that our product is only as good as the people building it. We look for individuals who can find solutions by going through the cycle of ideation to implementation with curiosity and rigor. We expect every team member to lead with empathy and respect.

Reports to: ​​VP of Growth

Responsibilities:

• Performance Analysis: Track and monitor performance of assigned marketing initiatives and channels. Partner with Engineering to create and maintain automated performance dashboards as needed.
• Insight Generation & Optimization Recommendation: Conduct ad-hoc analyses to uncover new insights and make recommendations on how to improve business performance; leverage various analytical and statistical approaches to deepen the quality of insights.
• Design Experiments: Partner with the initiative owner to design and deploy testing iterations designed to continuously improve business results. Actively contribute to marketing planning and execution.
• Funnel Conversion: Partner with creative and product teams to continuously test and optimize email/push/SMS “nurturing” communication to customers and prospects to optimize performance at each step of the funnel.
• Competitive Benchmarking: Research and capture competitive activity in assigned channels. Communicate insights and recommendations to the broader team.

Desired skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, or another business-related field
• 4+ years of relevant work experience
• Analytical mindset; highly proficient in SQL, Excel, and statistical analysis methods
• Experience with R, Tableau and/or HTML skills (or willingness to learn)
• Experience with experiment design and A/B test analysis across multiple KPIs
• Experience with ad management and tracking platforms, such as Google Adwords, Google Analytics and Facebook preferred. Previous experience with a marketing automation platform (eg, Marketo, Braze, LeanPlum, Eloqua) a plus
• Experience analyzing email/push notification programs, and combining send/open metrics with internal financial metrics
• Superior problem solver with the ability to independently identify opportunities for improvement and make constructive suggestions for change
• Experience communicating analyses and fielding questions from executive team members
• Embraces Root’s values and excited to be a part of our dynamic culture; has a ‘do-what-it-takes’ attitude toward driving for results in a fast-paced work environment

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Essential Functions

Collaborate with social, SEM, and offline marketing teams to implement SEO tactics designed to meet client’s marketing goals
Optimize eRetail assets
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Prioritize tasks based on their likely effectiveness and ability to be implemented
Present findings and back up recommendations with hard data
Identify duplicates or other problems that can arise in reporting or optimization
Support business development and account teams as needed in SEO sales and presentations
Support marketing in the development of SEO case studies, white papers, blog posts, etc.
Perform other duties as assigned by director or associate director
Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required
Work Experience:

2 – 4 years’ experience in SEO
Experience with project management tools is a plus
Experience with Fortune 1000 brands and/or within an agency environment
Skills:

Expertise with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
Knowledge of eCommerce SEO concepts
Comfortable with platforms including Adobe Analytics (Omniture SiteCatalyst) or Google Analytics
Understanding of basic web development technologies with the ability to hand code HTML
Familiar with multiple keyword research, reporting, and link building tools
Understanding of why certain search results appear for various keywords
Knowledge of local SEO, mobile SEO, and social media optimization (SMO) concepts
Innovative thinker, intuitive learner, with ability to quickly find solutions in fast-moving industry
Excellent research, writing, and presentation skills with an attention to detail
Ability to multi-task and handle other duties as assigned

The Digital Marketing Analyst is responsible for conducting analysis of digital market campaigns and test and learn pilots to drive customer acquisition and LTV for the Abercrombie & Fitch and abercrombie kids brands. This position will lead the design of testing pilots, QA pilot set up in ad/mar-tech platforms in partnership with our agency and develop actionable insights to optimize ROI and drive personalization across digital marketing channels. The Analyst will play a key role in a newly-created team within the broader Analytics organization to accelerate learning and optimize results across digital marketing channels.