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SPECTRAFORCE

Senior User Experience Designer Job at SPECTRAFORCE in Austin

SPECTRAFORCE, Austin, TX, US, 78716

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Role: Senior User Experience Designer

Duration: 18 months

Location: Austin, TX - CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCAL TO AUSTIN


Job Description:

TOP SKILLS:

  • B2B experience
  • Complex transactional design
  • Systems thinking


11+ years experience REQUIRED

  • We believe that, when done right, investing liberates people to create their own destiny.
  • We are driven by our purpose to champion every client’s goals with passion and integrity.
  • We respect and appreciate the diversity of our employees, our clients, and the communities we serve. We challenge conventions strategically to create value for our clients, our firm and the world.
  • We live and bring to life the concept of ‘own your tomorrow’ every day.
  • We champion our employee strengths, guide their development, and invest in their long-term success.


The Opportunity:

  • The User Experience and Design Team 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.


What you have:

  • 11 + 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, Invision, and Figma.
  • 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.


The team is responsible for:

  • Design Consulting
  • Lead design reviews and drive decisions.
  • Create design solutions with a multi-faceted team.
  • 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
  • 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 Registered Independent Advisors who rely on our products to manage their business and their client’s financial lives.
  • By researching and understanding user needs you will be able to impact how our users do business with client.
  • You will learn how balance functionality against complexity on a highly used platform.
  • You will work with an engaged design team that fosters a learning environment.