IT - User Experience (UX) Designer/Business Professional - Senior
Posted 1 day ago by 1753964053
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
USA
Summary: The role of User Experience (UX) Designer/Business Professional involves designing software solutions for advisor services platforms, focusing on user-centered design to enhance financial goal achievement. The position requires collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team to create best-in-class software experiences. The designer will facilitate design sessions, manage design processes, and maintain high standards in design execution. This role is critical in understanding user needs and improving design methodologies within the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Facilitate collaborative design sessions including sketching and ideation.
- Lead design reviews and drive decisions.
- Create design solutions with a multi-faceted team considering all aspects of the advisor experience.
- Faithfully translate established patterns and design systems to meet company goals.
- Visualize ideas in clear forms (sketch, diagram, wireframe, or prototype) and provide appropriate documentation.
- Set expectations with the project team and prioritize activities.
- Create and maintain design schedules.
- Communicate status and agreements with the project team.
- Review work with UX managers and keep them updated on project status.
- Conduct primary design activities, create deliverables, and conduct QA at an expert level.
- Participate and support research efforts.
- Commit to improving processes and methods with an emphasis on effectiveness and efficiency.
- Work well with all partners to deliver work and support UX team members.
- Strategically listen to feedback and help guide delivery.
- Maintain high standards set by the group.
- Focus on innovation and improvement.
- Regularly learn more about design theory, practice, and tools.
Key Skills:
- Expertise with foundational UX principles.
- Experience executing high fidelity design.
- Documentation/project tracking experience (Confluence, Jira).
- Bachelor's degree.
Salary (Rate): £66 per hour
City: Austin
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Our Opportunity:
The client's User Experience and Design is responsible for software design across advisor services platforms, which is primarily desktop and responsive mobile. We are a multi-disciplinary group of user experience designers, visual designers, content writers and researchers. We work with strategic business and technology partners across the enterprise to build best-in-class software experiences for our users. Our business is driven by looking through our clients' eyes, which makes it a great place to practice user-centered design. Our purpose is designing tools and experiences that enable users to achieve their financial goals.
location: Austin, Texas
job type: Contract
salary: $61 - 66 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
The team is responsible for:
Design Consulting
- Facilitate collaborative design sessions including sketching and ideation.
- Lead design reviews and drive decisions.
- Create design solutions with a multi-faceted team considering all aspects of the advisor experience, from consultative to end client/consumer experience
- Faithfully translate the established patterns and design systems to ensure company goals are met.
- Understand great designs are achieved iteratively.
- Visualize ideas in a clear form (sketch, diagram, wireframe or prototype) and provide appropriate level documentation.
Design Management
- Set expectations with the project team and prioritize activities.
- Create and maintain design schedules.
- Communicate status and agreements with project team.
- Review work with UX managers, keep them updated on project status and escalate items appropriately.
Design Expertise and Execution
- Maintain the high standards set by the group.
- Conduct the primary design activities, create deliverables and conduct QA at an expert level.
- Participate and support research efforts.
- Commit to improving our process and methods with an emphasis on both effectiveness and efficiency. Teamwork, Collaboration and Engagement
- Work well with all partners to deliver work.
- Support UX team members.
- Strategically listen to feedback and help guide the delivery
- Collaborative and cooperative.
- Has a design position but is not rigidly fixed when presented with new information.
- Passionate about team, our mission and the needs of our partners and users.
- Enthusiastic about UX design. Empathy & Curiosity Understand user needs, walking in their shoes when possible.
- Focus on innovation and improvement.
- Regularly learns more about design theory, practice and tools.
Why your work matters:
- You will support an engaged set of users who rely on our products to manage their financial lives
- By researching and understanding the user needs you will be able to impact how our users do business with the client.
- You will learn how balance functionality against complexity on a highly visible platform which serves millions of advisors and retail customers.
- You will work with an engaged design team that fosters a learning environment
TOP 3 SKILLS: -
- Expertise w/Foundational UX principles
- Experience executing of High Fidelity Design
- Documentation/Project Tracking experience (Confluence, Jira)
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