Our client, a financial services company is seeking for an UX Designer
Location: New York, NY
Position Type: Contract
Schedule: 2 Days Onsite
**All candidates must include a link to their portfolio for review**
Job Summary:
We are a partnership of Design and Engineering, with teams encompassing experienced designers, engineers, product owners, researchers and architects - with a shared mission to deliver customer value with every project we work on. Our focus is on the future of trading experience, using design thinking to ideate, iterate, implement and deliver the very best in class web-based platform for both existing customers, and those new to trading.
Responsibilities:
• Collaborates with developers, product managers, designers & researchers.
• Works with product managers, designers, and researchers to translate requirements into engaging and appealing user experiences, ensuring alignment with enterprise design patterns and guidelines.
• Works closely with the development team to ensure that designs are implemented effectively and meet technical specifications.
• Follows a human-centered approach by leveraging qualitative and quantitative research and metrics to affect key decisions and enhance the user experience: competitive analysis, customer feedback, site analytics, and user research findings
• Captures all states, edge-cases, "unhappy paths” and path logic for visual UI design and development teams to build out.
• Creates extremely detailed user flows, journey mapping, wireframes, etc. based on requirements from stakeholders, and communicates UX clearly to relevant teams.
• They should be comfortable with an agile approach to design, with an emphasis on user testing and rapid iteration
• Actively contributes to design system growth based on use cases
• Champions the customer experience and promotes usability best practices
Qualifications & Skills:
• Undergraduate qualification - User Experience Design, Interaction Design, Multimedia, HCI, Communications or equivalent degree preferred
• Online portfolio or work samples demonstrating a variety of user-centered design solutions – with proven experience of delivering high quality design across large scale, data driven digital experiences.
• 5+ years of UX experience in user-centered design methods and techniques to create viable solutions across screen sizes and devices
• Experience in designing Trading or Banking front ends and data intensive screens
• Proficiency in a variety of prototyping and design tools e.g. Figma, Sketch, Adobe suite - Figma is required
• Development and implementation of design systems, brand guidelines and standards
• Fluency in best practices for user experience design, and strong understanding of usability principles and techniques
• Strong conceptual thinking with an ability to understand user needs, motivations and behaviors and translate them into actionable deliverables.
Preferred Skills:
• Financial/Futures industry experience is a plus
• Experience in working across geographic boundaries