Senior Interaction Designer

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