Job Summary
An array of design skills including service design and strategic design methods, information architecture, prototyping, user research, and visual design. Effective communication, presentation, and storytelling skills; equally at ease speaking with developers or business partners. 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 for review online is required. Familiarity with the value of design systems, understanding reuse and scale, and knowing when to contribute to make them better. Work across the organization to drive consistent associate-facing experiences.
Job Details
- Location: Merrimack, New Hampshire
- Job type: Contract
- Salary: $82 - 83 per hour
- Work hours: 8am to 5pm
- Education: Bachelors
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 influence 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 user-friendly and aesthetically engaging, while producing 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.
- Present 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.
- Provide design and product thought leadership, identifying and developing strategic design opportunities to drive business and product strategy, creating artifacts to align stakeholders and teams.
- Work across and collaborate with investment professionals, product and engineering leads, and others to develop and prototype product vision.
- Lead definition of the design work and deliver business outcomes across multiple product teams, with minimal guidance and coaching.
- Distill qualitative and quantitative feedback to unearth recurring themes and promote data-driven design decisions.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.
Benefits
Pay offered is based on factors such as education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. Comprehensive benefits include medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, life insurance, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits based on eligibility).
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