UX Designer

My client a large global financial services brand is looking for an experienced UX Designer on a 6 month contract.

The responsibilities and ideal qualifications are as follows

Responsibilities Include:

• Transform ideas, business opportunities, research and creative vision into tangible assets that provide clear, usable, useful and desirable outcomes for users
• Create detailed wire frames, information architecture diagrams, persona's, usability testing stimulus, site maps, story boards, user flows and high / low fidelity prototypes along with a wide range of UX assets and deliverables
• Work closely with team leads to drive best digital experiences through all phases of product development, ship, and iterate, acts as an evangelist for UX best practice
• Effectively act on partner feedback, user testing results and learning's to improve assets, products and services
• Assist in developing fast moving, tangible design process that deliver quality experiences within sprint cycles
• Assist in brainstorming, ideating, and iterating as needed
• Work in collaboration with key project team members, including user experience researchers, product owners, tech leads, developers, strategy, PM, and visual design
• Be a passionate advocate for the user, ground ideas in data driven solutions by Partnering with our User Experience Research team to incorporate customer insights and principles throughout the creative process.
• Ensure adherence to design best practices, standards, brand consistency
• Identifies opportunities to adopt innovative technologies

Qualifications:

• Fluency with design tools, most notably OmniGraffle, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Invision and/or other UX & prototyping software
• Ability to simplify and turn complex interactions into intuitive user experiences
• Knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Knowledge and/or experience working in agile product development
• Knowledge and/or experience designing responsively across devices
• Exceptional skills in ideation, sketching, wire framing, user flows and information architecture
• Ability to create both high and low fidelity clickable prototypes
• Excellent relationship management, verbal & written communication skills
• Knowledge and experience launching products on JavaScript frameworks
• Knowledge and experience designing responsively across devices
• 1+ years experience as a user experience designer an advantage, with experience of producing web facing products, prototypes, wire frames and other artefacts
• Experience in UX Research an advantage