Principal UX Designer
Dallas, TX - USA
Job Summary
In this Principal UX Designer role you will spearhead our design efforts guiding us through the creation of transformative and intuitive user interfaces in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You will help establish standards and best practices to create world-class streamlined user experiences that best support our investment professionals and business partners. Your expertise allows us to consider accessibility interactive design overall usability and a responsive frontend architecture thereby ensuring that our digital products are not only visually appealing but also highly functional and user centric.
- Creates innovative solutions for a wide variety of product design challenges including desktop hardware interfaces physical environments and person-to-person interactions.
- Leads the design for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences.
- Plans and defines strategy for the direction of future iterations.
- Quickly iterates on multiple interactive design solutions.
- Advocates for design solutions highlighting inputs that influences decisions including business and user goals demographic and usage data and research findings.
- Develops high level detailed storyboards mock-ups and prototypes to optimally communicate interaction and design ideas.
- Delivers work that is not only user-friendly and aesthetically engaging but that also produces results.
- Works alongside engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the production cycle.
- Assesses and optimizes the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics.
- Develops and maintains detailed user-interface specifications.
- Presents design work to multiple teams and senior leadership for review and feedback.
- Creates user experience standards guidelines and associated assets to accelerate UI development.
- Contributes to the groups shared knowledge of user-centered design and research methodologies.
- 8 years of UX or related design experience in a professional setting
- A degree in a related field such as interactive design architecture industrial design graphic design or human factors is preferred
- Asset Management or related Investment Applications Design experience is ideal
- Provide design and product thought leadership identifying and developing strategic design opportunities to drive business and product strategy creating artifacts to align stakeholders and teams to
- Work across and collaborate with investment professionals product and engineering leads and others to develop and prototype product vision
- Lead definition of the design work and deliver business outcomes across multiple product teams with minimal guidance and coaching
- Distilling qualitative and quantitative feedback to unearth recurring themes and promote data-driven design decisions
- An array of design skills including service design and strategic design methods. Information architecture prototyping user research and visual design will also be essential
- Effective communication presentation and storytelling skills; equally at ease speaking with developer or business partners
- Experience working on agile teams delivering value in digital products preferred
- Experience running and/or using research to support evidence-focused design decisions preferred
- A digital portfolio we can review online is required
- Familiarity with the value of design systems understanding reuse and scale and knowing when to contribute to make them better
- Work across the organization to drive consistent associate-facing experiences
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