User Experience Designer - REMOTE

UX Designer. Fully remote. Candidate must be based in the USA, and work EST hours. 

Long term contract position with a major financial/investment firm. Financial services experience is highly desired. Consumer facing mobile and web design experience is needed. Strong portfolio demonstrating previous design work is required.

Minimum of 5 years of UX design experience at a major corporation is required. 

* Working in a fast pace startup environment
* High profile projects
* Self starter
* Able to navigate stakeholder meetings and collaboration
* Has a clear point of view and voice
* Senior designer presence in meetings
* Great communication skills
* Advocate for the user and customer centricity
* Comfortable working with cross functional teams and internal and external enterprise partners
* Mobile for web design expertise
* Consumer space/ retail experience
* Out of the box thinking
* Creative visual design
* Working with design systems and pushing through limitations when appropriate
* Great storytelling and versatility demonstrated in portfolio
* Data driven design
* Experience with research studies
* Turning insights into creative design solutions

Job Description - Specialist, Experience Designer
 
The Role
 
As CX Experience Designer you'll work in a multidisciplinary team, alongside researchers, experience designers, visual designers, and developers, to deliver best-in-class, human-centered products, and services for Marketing organization. Your role will be to analyze, plan, map, and create the most valuable and contextually accurate experiences that are simple, and intuitive for customers to use.
Not only will you be excited by the challenge of creating great products across multiple channels, devices, and platforms, but you will also be able to see and own the end-to end journey as well as the detailed outcomes.
You will have a deep understanding of experience architecture, how to design in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, whilst helping transform end-to-end product and service conversion and acquisition model.
 
Main responsibilities
 
As Sr. Experience Designer, you will:

• Engage in the full lifecycle of client projects beyond initial site development including unit tests, documentation, deployment, and maintenance. This includes enrollment platform design and development using a Content Management System (CMS) that requires proficiency HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Design conceptual wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, information architecture diagrams, interaction specifications, and functional prototypes.
• Understand the core Human Centered Design framework of an experience and design targeted improvements to that framework that accommodates new and improved process refinements and deliverables.
• Create and rapidly iterate interactive prototypes in accordance with task, scenario, and business needs.
• Co-creating on designs with developers, marketing, and product stakeholders.
• Put forward new cases for designs improvements with marketing and product managers.
• Communicate with detailed design and industry backed decisions and be able to represent all experience touchpoints.
• Engage and align with all multidisciplinary teams across the customer office business.
• Analyze friction within existing experiences and identify root causes for that failure that can be translated into solutions.

Skills and experience

• Strong understanding of responsive web design principles and the ability to create mobile-friendly layouts.
• Familiarity with web accessibility guidelines and standards such as WCAG 2.0 or 2.1.
• Experience working with Content Management Systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical problems logically and systematically.
• Knowledge of the insurance business is a plus.
• Must demonstrate strong knowledge of design thinking.
• Working collectively and autonomously with cross-functional teams.
• A design related degree or relevant experience in designing products and services.

For this role, the following competencies are essential:

• Collaborating and partnering—Develop and inspire those around you; encourage, acknowledge, and reward individual and team efforts.
• Continuously changing and improving—Sought by senior leadership for progressive and innovative counsel.
• Making effective and decisive decisions—Provide unscripted strategic counsel—can "think on your feet” without disrupting strategic intention.
• Leading and communicating—Viewed as a role model and leader within the organization.
• Influence of experience quality— tie a design to a strategic initiative or business outcome within our organization and across multiple business domains.
• Humility at the highest level—Welcome the constructive criticism of the work and be able to constructively review the work of other designers.
• Empower your co-workers—Contributes to team- building activities and growth paths.
• Challenge thinking appropriately—Listen, observe, and respond. Apply logic and reasoning to ask the right questions at the right time to influence those around you into creating the best solution for the business and all customers.
• Storytelling and presentation skills—Create clear, compelling, and cohesive presentations that frame context with emotion and need, so audiences can be taken on an informative, self-guided journey.
• Empathy & Curiosity—Drive inquisitive thinking, exploration and investigation with customers and stakeholders. Understanding how we feel and react to moments of need, opportunity, and challenge.

Skills and Tools

• Adobe CC - Preferably XD
• Figma
• Microsoft Teams
• Miro