UI Developer/Designer - The Custom Group of Companies

Your role as UX Designer:
• Adapt, contribute and maintain cross-product design principles and UX patterns leveraging the design system for delivering effective end-to-end business processes
• Execute design from requirements gathering, to concepts, to handoff to developers for a portfolio of products
• Create user flows, wireframes, visual designs, site maps, storyboards, low- and high-fidelity prototypes, and add to style guides and component libraries
• In coordination with product owner, conduct stakeholder presentations and design/prototype reviews, proposing design solutions to increase engagement, and as appropriate, conversion
• Provide UX design leadership and guidance to portfolio of product teams using shared design system patterns and drive cohesive UX implementation, including guiding UI developers in agile squads
• Enforce adherence to style standards, actively participate in all phases of the product lifecycle, including product ideation, user persona definition, user interviews, requirements gathering, cross-discipline UX design sessions, usability testing, and data analytics
• Incorporate user-interface (UI) and user-experience (UX) best-practices into design and production, including where appropriate usability testing and other user research programs to inform user-centric design
• Identify design opportunities to create consistency in established and new patterns within each workstreams, explore various concepts through prototyping and lead user testing to validate usability assumptions
• Serves as a trusted advisor to Product Owners in establishing product strategies and roadmaps

Qualifications
What we are looking for:
• UX design experience, financial services industry experience preferred
• An online portfolio demonstrating strong visual design experience, as well as expertise in user-centric, interactive design for web
• Track record of meaningfully contributing to, creating and/or managing impactful design systems and processes in Figma
• Experience with information architecture projects and card sorting research activities; experience organizing user facing datasets nice to have
• Experience working in an Agile delivery model
• Proven ability delivering customer-centric designs in broad and complex stakeholder landscapes
• Ability to collaborate across teams and find a way to move forward in ambiguous circumstances
• Strong executive communication skills