Position Description
The Senior User Experience/Interaction Designer will handle the research, planning, design, and documentation of user interfaces for web-based, hand-held, and desktop applications
The ideal candidate
• Is detail-oriented with strong interaction design skills
• Has excellent communication, presentation, and client management skills
• Is well versed in iterative User Centered Research and Design process
• Has experience working in Agile development environments, specifically using scrum methodology
• Understands and has opinions about current industry best practices
• Has experience designing transactional user interfaces, not simply static web sites
• Balances an academic interest in best practices with tactical solutions
• Manages client expectations and own time efficiently
• Enjoys collaborating with product owners and business analysts to design innovative solutions
• Has experience with data/information visualization
• Is fluent is standard design software and tooling (Sketch, Adobe, Axure etc.)
Skills Required:
The Senior User Experience/Interaction Designer will need to be able to:
• Follow an Iterative User-Centered Research & Design Process
• Work collaboratively in a cross-disciplinary design team contributing to UX operational initiatives beyond the scope of their project work (design crits, design ops etc.)
• Conduct Ethnographic User research
• Define/Develop Personas
• Create Feature maps & prioritization
• Develop Sitemaps & User Journeys
• Create Wireframes & Interaction Models
• Conduct User testing
Education and experience:
• 10+ years UX experience, Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent
• Financial Services industry experience a plus but not essential
• Portfolio and References mandatory