In this Principal UX Designer role, you will spearhead our design efforts, guiding us through the creation of transformative and intuitive user interfaces in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You will help establish standards and best practices to create world-class streamlined user experiences that best support our investment professionals and business partners. Your expertise allows us to consider accessibility, interactive design, overall usability, and a responsive frontend architecture, thereby ensuring that our digital products are not only visually appealing but also highly functional and user centric.
About the Role
Supporting in a design system. This candidate should have the skill set to influence discussions around the design system. This team designs pages with massive amounts of financial/ticker information scrolling live. They are looking for organized UX designers with financial experience. Specifically, where many UX managers are looking for more space and style, this team is looking for the opposite. Examples of adding more data to the screen, adding less designs and less titles. Understanding finance UX is essential.
Responsibilities
- Creates innovative solutions for a wide variety of product design challenges, including desktop, hardware interfaces, physical environments, and person-to-person interactions.
- Leads the design for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences.
- Plans and defines strategy for the direction of future iterations.
- Quickly iterates on multiple interactive design solutions.
- Advocates for design solutions, highlighting inputs that influences decisions including business and user goals, demographic and usage data, and research findings.
- Develops high level, detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes to optimally communicate interaction and design ideas.
- Delivers work that is not only user-friendly and aesthetically engaging, but that also produces results.
- Works alongside engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the production cycle.
- Assesses and optimizes the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics.
- Develops and maintains detailed user-interface specifications.
- Presents design work to multiple teams and senior leadership for review and feedback.
- Creates user experience standards, guidelines, and associated assets to accelerate UI development.
- Contributes to the group’s shared knowledge of user-centered design and research methodologies.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of UX or related design experience in a professional setting
- A degree in a related field such as interactive design, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, or human factors is preferred
- Asset Management or related Investment Applications Design experience is ideal
Required Skills
- Asset management background or financial UX experience required
- Product is 50% is whatever we learn from the design pattern can be input into the next system.
- Figma is what they use – AI aspect (more in-depth work)
- Financial experience – Candidate needs to come from finance, so they feel comfortable adding more numbers to less space than making everything spacious and pretty
Preferred Skills
- Has some programming background (help avoid gaps of what a developer would see) - CSS HTML Angular Typescript
- Experience working on agile teams delivering value in digital products preferred
- Experience running and/or using research to support evidence-focused design decisions preferred
- A digital portfolio we can review online is required
- Familiarity with the value of design systems, understanding reuse and scale, and knowing when to contribute to make them better