UX Developer

A financial firm is looking for a UX Developer to join their team in New York, NY. 

Pay: $105-110/hr 

Key aspects of the role: Execute design from requirements gathering, to concepts, to handoff to developers for a portfolio of products

Day-to-day Expectations: Collaborate with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and developers; build design artifacts that advance UX ideation and implementation across several products; facilitate user research and review cycles to develop and iterate concepts; socialize design concepts including with senior stakeholders

Required Clearances Needed: Level 2, but can start working before it's cleared

Responsibilities:

• Adapt, contribute and maintain cross-product design principles and UX patterns leveraging the design system for delivering effective end-to-end business processes

• Execute design from requirements gathering, to concepts, to handoff to developers for a portfolio of products

• Create user flows, wireframes, visual designs, site maps, storyboards, low- and high-fidelity prototypes, and add to style guides and component libraries

• In coordination with product owner, conduct stakeholder presentations and design/prototype reviews, proposing design solutions to increase engagement, and as appropriate, conversion

• Provide UX design leadership and guidance to portfolio of product teams using shared design system patterns and drive cohesive UX implementation, including guiding UI developers in agile squads

• Enforce adherence to style standards, actively participate in all phases of the product lifecycle, including product ideation, user persona definition, user interviews, requirements gathering, cross-discipline UX design sessions, usability testing, and data analytics

• Incorporate user-interface (UI) and user-experience (UX) best-practices into design and production, including where appropriate usability testing and other user research programs to inform user-centric design

• Identify design opportunities to create consistency in established and new patterns within each workstreams, explore various concepts through prototyping and lead user testing to validate usability assumptions

• Serves as a trusted advisor to Product Owners in establishing product strategies and roadmaps

Qualifications:

• UX design experience, financial services industry experience preferred

• An online portfolio demonstrating strong visual design experience, as well as expertise in user-centric, interactive design for web

• Track record of meaningfully contributing to, creating and/or managing impactful design systems and processes in Figma

• Experience with information architecture projects and card sorting research activities; experience organizing user facing datasets nice to have

• Experience working in an Agile delivery model

• Proven ability delivering customer-centric designs in broad and complex stakeholder landscapes

• Ability to collaborate across teams and find a way to move forward in ambiguous circumstances

• Strong executive communication skills

Must-have hard skills:

1. Design ideation facilitation techniques

2. Low and hi-fi prototyping in Figma

3. Contributing to/managing design systems

4. Working in Agile delivery model

5. Experience designing information architecture

Nice-to-have hard skills:

1. Financial services industry experience, including trading system design

2. Experience designing interfaces for user-facing data sets

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