UI​/UX Designer

Overview

job summary:

NOTE:

CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCAL TO AUSTIN - will be req'd to report onsite.

Title:

Senior User Experience Designer.

We believe that, when done right, investing liberates people to create their own destiny. We are driven by our purpose to champion every client's goals with passion and integrity. We respect and appreciate the diversity of our employees, our clients, and the communities we serve. We challenge conventions strategically to create value for our clients, our firm and the world. We live and bring to life the concept of 'own your tomorrow' every day.

We champion our employee strengths, guide their development, and invest in their long-term success. We hire optimistic, results-oriented, curious, innovative, and adaptable people with the desire to help our clients and one another succeed.

The Opportunity
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The User Experience and Design Team is responsible for software design across mobile, web and desktop platforms. We are a multi-disciplinary group of user experience designers, visual designers, content writers and researchers. We work with strategic business and technology partners across the enterprise to build best-in-class software experiences for our users. Our business is driven by looking through our clients' eyes, which makes it a great place to practice user-centered design.

Our purpose is designing tools and experiences that enable users to achieve their financial goals. The team is responsible for:

• Design Consulting
• Lead design reviews and drive decisions.
• Create design solutions with a multi-facetted team.
• Represent the design team brand, and deliver a consistent design process to partners.
• Understand great designs are achieved iteratively.
• Visualize ideas in a clear form (sketch, diagram, wireframe or prototype) and provide appropriate level documentation.

• Design Expertise and Execution
• Maintain the high standards set by the group.
• Conduct the primary design activities, create deliverables and conduct QA at an expert level.
• Participate and support research efforts.
• Commit to improving our process and methods with an emphasis on both effectiveness and efficiency.
• Teamwork, Collaboration and Engagement:
  Work well with all partners to deliver work, support UX team members, strategically listen to feedback and guide delivery, be collaborative and cooperative.
• Have a design position but remain flexible when presented with new information.
• Be passionate about the team, our mission and the needs of our partners and users. Be enthusiastic about UX design. Empathy & Curiosity:
  Understand user needs, walk in their shoes when possible, focus on innovation and improvement, regularly learn more about design theory, practice and tools.

• 11+ years of rich interaction design focused on digital products.
• 1+ year of interaction design experience for touch-based mobile interfaces is a plus.
• An online portfolio demonstrating interaction design process and thinking.
• Experienced 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. Robust self-management skills, comfortable with substantial responsibility, working directly with our client partners, and capable of managing your project schedules.
• Proficient in design tools like Sketch, Invision, and Figma.
• Experience running design sessions with cross-functional teams.
• Effective relationship builder—ability to partner cross-functionally, cross-enterprise and work effectively with various levels of the organization as well as various personality types.
• Comfort in a project-oriented work environment, with a positive attitude and solid work ethic.

• Location:
  
  Austin, Texas
• Job Type: Contract
• Salary: $70 - 75 per hour
• Work hours:
  
  8am to 5pm
• Education:
  
  Bachelors

The team is responsible for:

• Design Consulting
• Lead design reviews and drive decisions.
• Create design solutions with a multi-faceted team.
• Represent the design team brand, and…