User Experience Designer

Our client is a Fortune 500 financial and payments technology company, and leads the industry in innovation, scale and service.
They are now looking to add to the their team and are looking to hire a "User Experience Designer ". This role will be 100% Remote.
Duties
Creates and defines seamless, consistent and desirable experiences for Global Payments products and services through the application of user-centered design principles including qualitative and quantitative user research and analysis and visual and/or interaction design. The UX Designer/Architect helps define an in-depth understanding of the context in which our customers interact with our products and services. The UX Designer/Architect applies customer needs, motivations, tasks and goals to the design of highly engaging experiences for multiple devices, delivery channels and at times, non-digital touchpoints. The UX Designer/Architect acts as an user advocate to project teams and collaborates well with all Stakeholders in the development of the experience.
Skills

• 4+ years as a user experience designer for web and mobile applications
• Contributed to multiple shipped products
• Strong visual communication skills - ability to create sketches to present your ideas quickly and to iterate on the fly
• Ability to create rough prototypes as well as high fidelity prototype/visual design comps using tools such as Figma or HTML/CSS
• Strong working knowledge of Figma and associated design tools
• Experience with user interface design patterns, interaction design and standard UCD methodologies
• Experience with creating task flow, user journey and customer journey
• Ability to run user test and to analyse data from user research
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a creative mind
• Understanding of common software project management and development practices in an agile environment
• Proactive, dynamic and open to feedback
• Enjoy working as a team member as well as independently
• Knowledge of the payment industry is a plus
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS and Javascript is a plus

Competencies

• Figma
• Interaction Design
• Information Architecture
• UX Writing
• Visual Design
• Service Design
• Prototyping
• User Research
• Understanding of Quantitative Research and Analysis
• Personas / User journeys
• User flows
• Design thinking techniques
• Inclusive Design /Accessibility
• Usability
• Systems thinking

Beneficial skills but not required:

• Adobe Suite
• Basic HTML CSS.
• Motion Design - Premiere, After Effects, Principle, Lottie
• REACT, Angular and other JS framework.
• Github,
• Storybook
• Branding
• Visual communication
• Cognitive Science & Psychology

Education

• Degree (MS/BA/BS) in Interaction / HCI, UX, Visual, Industrial, Product or Graphic Design or equivalent experience