Principal Product Designer

Fidelity Labs is seeking an experienced and customer-focused Principal Product Designer to join a newly formed startup, looking to develop the next generation of financial products and services.

Are you the right applicant for this opportunity Find out by reading through the role overview below.At Fidelity Labs, we don’t accept the status quo. We’re debating, experimenting, researching, teaching, and collaborating on new ideas to help people live better financial lives. We have dedicated multi-functional teams that operate like startups, but have the backing and resources of Fidelity to ensure that we are able to focus on the things that matter. Using a combination of ingenuity, and innovation methodologies, our startups take a customer-centric approach to problem solving, with a focus on rapid experimentation, and the permission to fail.The Team The Principal Product Designer is a key member of the startup, playing an important role in the strategy and development of new products through reciprocal concepting, wireframing, prototyping, and ultimately building clean, pixel-perfect UI to be developed and delivered to happy users.This role calls for a strong individual contributor, equally as comfortable virtual whiteboarding and concepting with the team as new features are being developed as you are putting on headphones and cranking out appealing, intuitive UI design. As part of a tight-knit team charged with crafting new products and services, the Principal Product Designer is passionate about first understanding the needs of our customers, then helping to shape innovative solutions to address them. The ideal candidate is an effective communicator that loves what they do and brings a creative, dynamic, collaborative spirit to the office every day. With a proven attention to detail and a passion for advocating for the needs of the customer, they live for interactive design, have a strong individual work ethic with a maniacal attention to detail, strive to produce the work at the highest quality standards and absorb design knowledge and trends.The Expertise You Have

BA/BS degree in graphic design, communication design, human-computer interaction, or a related field, or equivalent practical experienceExperience participating in the full product development lifecycle of web, mobile, and/or software applications4-8 years of work experience in some combination of UI/UX roles, or similar role in a related fieldThe ability to reciprocally partner with peers (researchers, design directors, content strategists, product managers) to understand customer needs, motivations, and behaviors and translate them into deliverable tasksExperience crafting design artifacts such as wireframes, interactive prototypes, and pixel-perfect design compsExperience using style guides and component/pattern libraries in a detailed and consistent mannerExperience with Agile methodology and toolsProven expertise with Figma, Sketch, and Adobe Creative CloudExperience facilitating user research and building detailed synthesis outputsExperience with crypto, blockchain, and concepts surrounding decentralized finance a plusThe Skills You Bring

Good listening skills, with the ability to communicate design rationale to key partners outside of the design team (such as business, legal, technology teams)Formal observation and facilitation of customer and user feedback sessions, contextual research, and usability testsAbility to keep up in a fast-paced environment. Experience with Agile is not necessary, but a plusAbility to self-manage time and tasksA clean aestheticSolid attention to detail and a systematic approach to applying a design libraryYou demonstrate a clear and compelling design sense grounded in compassion and thoughtfulnessYou demonstrate to others ‘how’ and ‘why’ design decisions are madeAbility to collaborate with engineering and technology partners to ensure that code is being built as designed during projectsYou have a powerful impulse to improve existing designs, invent new experiences, and perform better than our competitionA consistent curiosity for implementing new design software and tools to help improve workflowThe Value You Deliver

Bringing business ideas to life, through sketching, wireframing, prototyping, designing and shipping productsHelping your team deliver valuable experiences to our customersFacilitating and inspiring idea generation techniquesSharing your expert knowledge with a design team that wants to develop their skills to be the best in the industry

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