User Experience (UX) Designer - Senior (6-10 years) Job at Mindlance in Austin
Mindlance, Austin, TX, United States, 78716
Job Title: Sr. User Experience (UX) Designer
Location: Austin, TX (Local candidates preferred)
Duration: 10+ Months
Type: Full-Time, Contract
Description:
Client User Experience and Design is responsible for software design across advisor services platforms, primarily desktop and responsive mobile. 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, making it a great place to practice user-centered design. Our purpose is designing tools and experiences that enable users to achieve their financial goals.
Responsibilities:
Design Consulting:
- Facilitate collaborative design sessions including sketching and ideation.
- Lead design reviews and drive decisions.
- Create design solutions with a multi-faceted team considering all aspects of the advisor experience, from consultative to end client/consumer experience.
- Faithfully translate the established patterns and design systems to ensure company goals are met.
- Understand great designs are achieved iteratively.
- Visualize ideas in a clear form (sketch, diagram, wireframe, or prototype) and provide appropriate level documentation.
Design Management:
- Set expectations with the project team and prioritize activities.
- Create and maintain design schedules.
- Communicate status and agreements with the project team.
- Review work with UX managers, keep them updated on project status, and escalate items appropriately.
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 help guide the delivery.
- Collaborative and cooperative.
- Has a design position but is not rigidly fixed when presented with new information.
- Passionate about the team, our mission, and the needs of our partners and users.
- Enthusiastic about UX design.
Empathy & Curiosity:
- Understand user needs, walking in their shoes when possible.
- Focus on innovation and improvement.
- Regularly learn more about design theory, practice, and tools.
Why Your Work Matters:
- You will support an engaged set of users who rely on our products to manage their financial lives.
- By researching and understanding user needs, you will impact how our users do business with Client.
- You will learn how to balance functionality against complexity on a highly visible platform that serves millions of advisors and retail customers.
- You will work with an engaged design team that fosters a learning environment.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of rich interaction design focused on digital products.
- 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.
- Strong 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, Figma, Mural, InVision.
- 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.