UX designernbsp

Job Title: Senior UX designer

Location: New York City NY / Hybrid 3 days a week on site

Potential to convert

Diverse and local candidates only

Our growing team of designers and researchers brings an entrepreneurial spirit to a leading global financial firm. We employ design thinking methods and a user-centered approach to solve real business problems. If you can bring clarity to complexity, design holistically in an immense product ecosystem, and go the extra mile to create delight, we want you!

Once Here You Will...

• Under the guidance of the Lead UX Designer, strategize and execute the product vision by being heavily involved in the end-to-end product design process
• Surface the underlying needs and motivation of our users to ensure we achieve business goals and provide value
• Design an intuitive and elegant experience that empowers our clients to make confident financial decisions
• Work closely with our research team to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data and make value-driven design decisions which then translate into clear, simple UIs
• Create and present a variety of design deliverables (sketches, wireframes, user flows, and prototypes) in a way that engenders confidence in you and your solutions within the team and the greater organization
• Design holistic solutions that integrate seamlessly into our Institutional Securities product ecosystem
• Design and deliver responsive/adaptive solutions that are optimized for web and mobile interfaces and partner with engineers to translate designs into successful products

Relevant Experience and Mindset:

• An outstanding portfolio that demonstrates how you have created experiences that solved business and user needs
• 9 years of experience as a UX designer as a key contributor to the success of products that have been launched
• Bachelor's degree in design or related field; master's degree is a plus
• Experience working within an Agile environment such as Lean UX, Scrum, and/or Kanban
• Fluency in Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC and InVision
• You thrive in a collaborative, explorative environment and value being on a diverse team that you can bounce ideas off of, get critical feedback from, and unite to mature design thinking in a large organization
• You practice active listening and contribute to group situations (brainstorms, audits, critiques, whiteboard sessions, etc..)
• You have a high tolerance for complex projects with high levels of ambiguity and you are resilient in the face of obstacles
• You have a relentless desire to validate assumptions and uncover a problem's root cause by testing, learning, and iterating
• You constantly seek opportunities to evangelize and promote design thinking in a large organization