UX Designer, New York

Overview

We are looking for a UX designer to work on our Institutional Consulting team, designing projects that give Financial Advisors the ability to assist clients. This role will typically deal with iterative design projects that assist firm clients with things like pension funds, endowments, government entities and corporations. Work will be tailored to portfolio structuring, risk management, asset allocation and facilitating financial goals for institutional clients.

Responsibilities:

Partner with product to define the vision and set the bar for quality standards while helping to improve work that does not meet this threshold

Design an intuitive and elegant experiences that empower our users

Work closely with our research team to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data and make value-driven design decisions which then translate into clear, simple UIs

Able to independently choose design patterns based on strong rational

Design holistic solutions that integrate seamlessly into our Wealth Management product ecosystem

Create and present a variety of design deliverables (sketches, wireframes, user flows and prototypes) in a way that engenders confidence in you and your solutions within the team and the greater organization

Play a critical role in designing user-centered solutions for our complex array of tools

Sit on cross-functional teams, working with product management, business analysts, and development

Required skills and experience:

An outstanding portfolio that demonstrates how you have created experiences that solved business and user needs

5-7 years of experience as a UX designer as a key contributor to the success of products that have launched

Mastery of strategic, hard, and soft UX skills

Bachelor's degree in design or related field; master’s degree is a plus

Fluency in Figma

Ability to fully utilize and work with less skilled designers

You thrive in a collaborative, explorative environment and value being on a diverse team that you can bounce ideas off of, get critical feedback from, and unite to mature design thinking in a large organization

You practice active listening and contribute to group situations (brainstorms, audits, critiques, whiteboard sessions, etc.)

You have a high tolerance for projects with ambiguity and the ability to set the direction for undefined, complex projects

You are resilient in the face of obstacles

You have a relentless desire to validate assumptions and uncover a problems’ root cause by testing, learning, and iterating

You constantly seek opportunities to evangelize and promote design thinking in a large organization

You can manage multiple priorities with tight timelines

You are willing to roll up your sleeves and do hands-on work

You can glean insights from data and incorporate them into design solutions

Previous work experience in finance is a plus

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