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
