Senior User Experience / Interaction Designer

Role and team profile

Our Company's User Experience and Design Group (within the Institutional Securities Technology division) are looking for a contract Senior User Experience/Interaction Designer to join their team based in New York.

This is a unique opportunity to join one of the most reputable design teams in finance known for consistently delivering innovative, award-winning software applications used by internal teams and clients of the firm.

The global team, which is made up of Interaction Designers, Visual Designers and UI Developers based in London, New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Montreal, and Glasgow, deliver user-centered design and strategy projects across the Institutional business: from client-facing applications, to tools and software for front office sales and trading, Investment Banking and Global Capital Markets, middle and back-office, infrastructure, and data as well as HR and corporate services.

Known for their open and collaborative team culture and high standards, the team thrives on challenging the status quo and delivering solutions that create tangible benefits for both users and the business. As a member of this high-performing team, you will need to be a talented and detail-oriented Interaction Designer and User-Centered Design practitioner with the proven leadership and communications skills needed to build trust with a complex matrix of interdisciplinary clients and partners across the organization.

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 industry experience, Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent

• Financial Services industry experience a plus but not essential

• Portfolio and References mandatory