Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: Our client is currently seeking a UX Designer - SR

This role is remote but must be based in:

• San Francisco, CA
• Austin, TX
• Denver, CO
• Chicago, IL

User Experience and Design is responsible for software design across mobile, web and desktop platforms. 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.

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, taking into account how digital, physical, and service channels work together

Represent the design team brand, and deliver a consistent design process to partners.

Understand great designs are achieved iteratively.

Visualize ideas in a clear form (sketch, diagram, wireframe or prototype) and provide appropriate level documentation of reasoning and rationale from research and user needs.

Design Management

Set priorities and expectations of activities, timing & deliverables, with the project team.

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.

Proactively fill in gaps in communication and effectiveness across team.

Ensure adherence to Design System, understand gaps and work towards a better tomorrow system.

Teamwork, Collaboration and Engagement

Create a positive engagement with all partners to deliver work.

Support UX team members in workshops, thought leadership and Design critiques..

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 our 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

What you have:

6 + years of rich interaction design focused on digital products.

1+ year of interaction design experience for touch-based mobile interfaces is a plus.

An online portfolio demonstrating interaction design process and thinking

Experienced with all aspects of a user-centered interaction design process, including user research, developing user flows, creating wireframes, conducting usability tests and creating annotated design specifications.

Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team within an iterative process and an Agile development methodology. Strong self-management skills, comfortable with substantial responsibility, working directly with our client partners, and capable of managing your project schedules.

Proficient in design tools like Sketch, Omnigraffle, Axure

Experience running design sessions with cross-functional teams

Effective relationship builder--ability to partner cross-functionally, cross-enterprise and work effectively with various levels of the organization as well as various personality types.

Comfort in a project-oriented work environment, with a positive attitude and solid work ethic.

Contact:

This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Find us on the web at www.judge.com