Senior Mobile User Experience Designer

Your Opportunity At Schwab

You're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s). Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship.

Charles Schwab User Experience Design

Charles Schwab User Experience Design is responsible for software design across mobile, web and desktop platforms. We are a multi-disciplinary group of design system product designers, and researchers. The Mobile UX team designs native mobile experiences that help clients manage their financial lives. As a platform team, inter-team collaboration and influence are central to our work.

We are looking for a Senior Mobile User Experience Designer (individual contributor) to drive platform standards and deliver high-quality iOS and Android experiences at scale.

Design Standards and Execution

• Create and maintain mobile design patterns for iOS and Android
• Drive modernization through audits and iterative design
• Produce high-quality design deliverables and conduct expert-level QA

Collaboration

• Facilitate design sessions and lead design reviews
• Partner cross-functionally to drive decisions and align on outcomes
• Incorporate feedback and iterate toward strong design solutions

Design Management

• Set expectations, prioritize work, and manage design timelines
• Evaluate and incorporate feedback to advance designs
• Partner with other UX teams to deliver platform-wide improvements

Empathy & Curiosity

• Understand user needs, walking in their shoes when possible
• Focus on innovation that presents a vision of the future with steps to get there
• Regularly learn more about design theory, practice, and tools

What You Have

• On your resume, please include a link (and password, if required) to an online portfolio demonstrating UX design process and thinking, including artifacts and examples of how you arrived at the final design.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of rich interaction design experience for touch-based mobile interfaces across iOS and Android operating platforms
• Documented experience with all aspects of a user-centered interaction design process, including user research, developing user flows, creating wireframes, conducting usability tests and creating annotated design specifications
• Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team within an iterative process and an Agile development methodology
• Strong proficiency in Figma
• Familiarity with Material Design and the Apple Human Interface Guidelines
• Experience running design sessions with cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of focus on design systems for mobile native platforms: writing design documentation and contributing to the evolution of mobile design systems
• 2+ years of experience designing for Android native mobile apps
• Strong prototyping skills
• Experience generating UIs with AI tools that integrate into code