Senior UX Designer Job at 1872 Consulting in Chicago

Senior User Experience Designer
Chicago, IL OR Dallas, TX
Hybrid - 2-3 days WFH per week

Position Summary:
This role is open with a financial services company. Our UX team is looking for a Senior UX Designer to lead the vision and strategy for a new application shared across all development teams. This includes the brand consolidation of all digital assets, including: website, mobile application, new applications, and more. Your focus will be creating and implementing a governance model to ensure any/all colleagues producing design work are on-brand.

Responsibilities:

• Build on foundations of Design System – contribute UX elements and best practices to Design System, ensure newly designed elements are included in Design System.
• Drive adoption and ensuring all designers leverage the brand standard for Design System.
• Follow UX work through from concept to delivery.
• Provide expert design advice and recommendations to Product and UX designers.
• Effectively communicate UX designs using site maps, user flows, wireframes, mockups, and other deliverables to create an engaging web presence.
• Collaborate with developers to apply design to digital platforms and to ensure cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility.
• Ensure the successful representation of company brand across all media channels.
• Create and maintain design style guides.
• Mentor and coach junior colleagues across the org to become self-sufficient in the design tools, creating reusable templates from which they can produce on-brand artifacts.
• Manage project workflow and coordinate with project teams and management on schedules, requirements, goals and assignments.
• Adhere to all policies and procedures and maintain or update related documentation as needed.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in UX, UI and digital design
• Previous experience working cross-functionally on a completed UX/front-end product
• Advanced knowledge of web design, usability, and information architecture principles
• Proficient with current design tools, such as Figma, InVision, Adobe Suite, etc.

Nice to have:

• Financial Services experience
• Previous experience working on an enterprise-level product and/or at a large-scale organization

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