What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal UX Designer position at Eliassen Group?
Description:
Onsite
Our client seeks a Principal UX Designer to lead design for FinTech products that support investment decision making, portfolio management, and trading. You will define and evolve user experience standards, partner with product and engineering, and deliver data-dense, accessible interfaces for financial professionals. The role emphasizes scalable design systems, rapid prototyping, and evidence-based iteration across complex, real-time financial workflows.
Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $70.00 to $82.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
Experience Requirements:
Education Requirements:
A degree in a related field such as interactive design, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, or human factors is preferred.
Recruitment Transparency Notice
Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please ensure that you are working directly with us by confirming the following:
When you work with Eliassen Group, all email communication will come from an Eliassen.com address, never Gmail, Yahoo, etc.
Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until you have worked with someone clearly associated with Eliassen Group.
If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact .
About Eliassen Group:
Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.
Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Don't miss out on our referral program! If we hire a candidate that you refer us to then you can be eligible for a $1,000 referral check!
Onsite
Our client seeks a Principal UX Designer to lead design for FinTech products that support investment decision making, portfolio management, and trading. You will define and evolve user experience standards, partner with product and engineering, and deliver data-dense, accessible interfaces for financial professionals. The role emphasizes scalable design systems, rapid prototyping, and evidence-based iteration across complex, real-time financial workflows.
Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $70.00 to $82.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
- Create innovative solutions across desktop, hardware interfaces, physical environments, and person-to-person interactions.
- Lead net-new experiences and iterative improvements to existing workflows.
- Plan and define strategy for future product iterations and design roadmaps.
- Rapidly prototype and iterate on interactive design solutions.
- Advocate for design decisions using business goals, user goals, data, and research findings.
- Develop storyboards, mockups, and prototypes to communicate interaction and design intent.
- Deliver user-friendly, visually coherent, and outcome-focused experiences.
- Partner with engineers and product managers through the full production lifecycle.
- Assess and optimize features using user research and performance metrics.
- Maintain detailed UI specifications and contribute to shared UX standards and assets.
- Present design work to cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
- Establish and evolve UX guidelines and assets to accelerate UI development.
- Contribute to user-centered design and research methodologies across the group.
- Support and influence discussions around the design system and component reuse.
- Design dense, high-signal financial interfaces that prioritize data over decoration.
Experience Requirements:
- 8 years of UX or related professional design experience.
- Financial UX or asset management application design experience.
- Experience delivering product value on agile teams.
- Ability to lead definition of design work and deliver outcomes across multiple product teams.
- Strength in service design, strategic design, information architecture, prototyping, user research, and visual design.
- Effective communication, presentation, and storytelling with technical and business partners.
- Ability to distill qualitative and quantitative feedback into data-informed design decisions.
- Familiarity with design systems, including scale, reuse, and contribution practices.
- Portfolio available for review.
- Figma proficiency.
- Nice to have: familiarity with CSS, HTML, Angular, and TypeScript.
Education Requirements:
A degree in a related field such as interactive design, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, or human factors is preferred.
Recruitment Transparency Notice
Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group's use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please ensure that you are working directly with us by confirming the following:
When you work with Eliassen Group, all email communication will come from an Eliassen.com address, never Gmail, Yahoo, etc.
Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until you have worked with someone clearly associated with Eliassen Group.
If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact .
About Eliassen Group:
Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.
Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Don't miss out on our referral program! If we hire a candidate that you refer us to then you can be eligible for a $1,000 referral check!
Salary : $70 - $82