SVP Senior UX Lead, Funds Transfer Tech (Hybrid)

This is a senior UX role, combining hands-on work with leadership for the research, analysis and design of digital products and systems in the Funds Transfer organization. You will partner with Product and Technology colleagues to create innovative and intuitive digital products that deliver best-in-class user experience and usability.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients' best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do. We keep the bank safe and provide the technical tools our workers need to be successful. We design our digital architecture and ensure our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. Our operations teams manage risk, resources, and program management. We focus on enterprise resiliency and business continuity. We develop, coordinate, and execute strategic operational plans. Essentially, Enterprise Operations & Technology re-engineers client and partner processes to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and controlled services.

Global Functions Technology (GFT) is a diverse organization comprised of more than 15,000 talented professionals with some of the brightest minds - all working together to realize Citi's Vision of growth and economic progress. As a group, we partner with the Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Human Resources teams to drive the delivery of innovative technology solutions using common data, analytics, and platforms. Our technology operates in real-time environments, capturing and managing market, transaction, and accounting data, as well as the data from millions of customers daily. Our solutions cover all products and geographies in which Citi does business. We are the backbone for reporting across the bank, satisfying our regulatory commitments, enabling our businesses to be nimbler and helping to safeguard customer assets through highly effective controls.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve globally from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We'll enable growth and progress together.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team, managing multiple major or complex projects from start to completion, with overall responsibility for delivery
• Build and develop a high-quality team, coaching and developing team leads and senior designers
• Work as a highly effective manager, providing guidance and opportunities for junior managers to grow and thrive
• Define and refine a formal UX research and design process for the team, ensuring delivery of high quality, repeatable results
• Identify metrics and data to support decision-making, guiding tech partners where needed to add necessary metrics
• Work closely with users, stakeholders, business analysts, product managers and development teams to brainstorm and co-create ideas, approaches, and solutions
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs
• Perform various flavors of testing to validate and inform design decisions
• Provide development teams with high quality assets, handover, and ongoing guidance to ensure they have all they need to implement your designs, with regular UX review checkpoints as needed.
• Direct engagement with clients whenever necessary and possible
• Regular, transparent communication of status and metrics to management and stakeholders
• Continuous seeking of opportunities to make improvements to team efficiency and process
• Keep up to date with the latest UX practices, innovations, and tools
• Ensure all designs comply with ADA/WCAG standards for accessibility
• Deliver on-time, identifying and managing risks to ensure timelines are met, and escalating where needed
• Confidently challenge substandard work within the team, and provide constructive feedback, coaching and guidance to resolve
• Identify and articulate design and technical conflicts between colleagues and/or local stakeholders and help to resolve these.
• Promote the value of UX within the wider organization
• Contribute to the wider UX community of practice
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 10 years of relevant experience,
• 4 years successfully leading design teams
• Proven time and project management skills
• Significant experience working with senior clients, stakeholders, and developers
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills
• Strong skills in professional design tools e.g., Sketch, Invision, Figma, AdobeXD, Axure
• Experience working with agile methodology
• Experience working with third party service providers
• Financial services knowledge or experience
• Practical knowledge of software development

Education:

• Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred

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