UX Designer Job at CERES Group in Boston

We are looking for a UX designer who is passionate about user-centered design, interaction, and technology to join our Web Services and Usability team. After learning about our projects and processes, you will work with Web team members, developers, and cross-functional project scrum teams as a user experience expert. Expect to participate in all stages of creating the best possible user experience for our products, including user research, early prototyping, interaction design, user testing, analysis, and presentation of recommendations.

You will take the UX lead on a variety of products that are used by our financial advisors and their clients. Along with working on the UX design of new products, you will also be making enhancements to existing products.

Responsibilities:

• Applying user interface design skills and principles to web application design
• Designing engaging and intuitive user interfaces
• Creating and iteratively refining a user interface design (rapid prototyping) through multiple cycles of product development
• Working with other project team members, engineering, graphic designers, and product management teams to implement required features
• communicating on and advocating for results, methods, and approaches

Qualifications:

• Expertise in user interface design principles, interaction design guidelines, and user-centered design processes
• Expertise in usability methodologies, human factors, industry standards and trends, platform standards, and software development processes
• Adaptable, flexible, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Agile development methodologies
• Graphic/visual design knowledge
• Familiarity with the possibilities of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Financial services experience a plus