Director, UX Design and Prototyping Job at Fidelity Investments in Boston

Job Description:

The Role

As a member of Fidelity’s Product Design Strategy team, you will use Human-Centered Design to bring new and innovative digital products and offerings to life. You’ll translate human-centered insights into actionable experiences through rapid prototyping and concept development, in collaboration with our strategists and researchers. You will dig into challenging, ambiguous, human-centered problems that you might not immediately associate with the investment world, but are on the forefront of where finance, technology, work, health, and data intersect.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Graduate degree in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, New Media, Human-Computer Interaction, or other relevant area AND/OR 7+ years' experience in UX / UI / Visual/Graphic Design across a range of digital media
• Interaction Skills: Rapid prototyping, clickable prototypes, and user flows. Ability to use and create design systems/libraries.
• Graphic Design Skills: Visual UI design, typography and visual hierarchy, accessibility, sketching and storyboarding.
• Digital Product Design Skills: Ability to understand new markets, analyze how a new product ties in with market needs and consumer preferences, and gather and use feedback from users to improve the design of new and existing digital products.
• Communication: Helping the team communicate research findings and strategies; bringing non-design teammates along on the journey.
• Ability to distinguish between ‘good’ and ‘great’ design, and to push boundaries to explore fresh territory.
• Ability to independently run moderated or unmoderated concept testing, and to communicate findings to team.
• Ability to learn from failure, engage in an iterative process, and understand that success comes sooner through trial and error.
• Technical Expertise with digital design tools such as Figma (required), Adobe CC suite, and AI generative imagery tools.

The Team

Product Design Strategy is an internal innovation group which partners with business units across Fidelity. We bring expertise in design research, strategic innovation, ideation, and UX design to create new products and solutions for our clients and prospects.

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Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future.

Join Us

At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. We have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024.

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences.

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process.