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The Hired Guns

Senior Product Designer, UX / UI

The Hired Guns, New York, New York, us, 10261


The Hired Guns are seeking a Senior Product Designer, UX/UI for a leading investment management firm that’s undertaking a massive, end-to-end transformation of their consumer-facing digital experiences. With UX skills as stellar as your design expertise, you’ll shape their forward-looking design systems while having an immediate impact on their global suite of products.The Nitty Gritty

Below covers everything you need to know about what this opportunity entails, as well as what is expected from applicants.The backstory on the organization and why they need to hire you!This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in a major evolution for this company. As Senior Product Designer, UX / UI, you’ll help transform all customer-facing websites, mobile applications, and other interactive experiences. You will serve as an influential change agent in concepting, design, testing, and launch processes by crafting a scalable design system and extensible UI standards, defining UX best practices, and collaborating closely with colleagues in IT, editorial, product management, and marketing.With an approach to design that’s customer-centric, KPI-focused, data-driven, and Agile, you’ll achieve superior results on digital initiatives such as interactive advertising landing pages, new digital product launches, transactional portals and portfolio management tools for both responsive web and native app.Why You?How you’ll know if you’re a fit…With ten or more years of digital product design and UX/UI design experience, you’ve served as design lead for at least one large-scale digital transformation and an enormous number of smaller-scale yet highly meaningful creative design projects for major brands, as evidenced by a portfolio replete with high-quality exemplars of responsive web, mobile and tablet app design. Experience in finance is helpful, but not necessary, but you must be flat-out fantastic at designing simple and elegant solutions for complex interactions. An agency pedigree is welcome for its exposure to a broad range of challenges and solutions.You specialize in high-level approaches to product development, including design thinking, lean UX, and Agile methodologies. You’re an expert in research-guided design, data analysis, human-centered design, and rapid prototyping. You have an impressive degree of technical savvy: you know your way around native app design (both iOS and Android) and have a keen understanding of their capabilities and limitations. You’re adept with Sketch, Principal, Zeplin, and prototyping tools such as InVision, Framer, or Figma, and have a solid knowledge of micro-interaction design and motion graphics.You have the ideal personality for this role if you’re a self-starter and team player who loves the energy of working with a collaborative team of experts. No prima donna, you don’t let your design ego get in the way of the best solution.The Inside SkinnyWhy you should quit your job right now and join this organization!You’ll be working as a pivotal part of a lean Agile team leading a complete 180-degree digital transformation. Because the team is small, there’s no silo. One day will rarely look the same as the last and once you’re done, you’ll have a wealth of design accomplishments you’ll be proud to put in your portfolio.The Hired Guns does not and will not discriminate in considering and referring candidates for employment, or in its treatment or advancement of its employees, and will not tolerate harassment, on the basis of race, color, religion, gender (including gender identity and expression), sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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