User Experience (UX) Designer - Senior (6-10 years) Job at Mindlance in Austin

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. #J-18808-Ljbffr