Senior User Experience Designer

Job Title: UX Designer Location: Springfield, MA Duration: 6+ Months

• Use design to help our customers secure their futures and protect the ones they love
• Change how professionals connect with and serve their customers
• Focus on elevating our design system in partnership with a multidisciplinary cohort of colleagues
• Use iterative and collaborative design techniques to transform new concepts to digital products via storyboards, wireframes, and prototypesCreate high-fidelity final designs, developing effective documentation for varied audiences
• Ensure proper implementation of the designs
• Maintain, update and improve existing digital products, UX/UI, and brand
• Reform how customers interact with financial solutions like life insurance and investments
• Deliver and iterate on new, innovative, omnichannel experiences
• Influence product lifecycle by imagining the future state
• Partner with Agile squads using the latest frameworks
• Partner with our team of user researchers and user interface designers
• Collaborate with engineering and design team on MassMutual s Blueprint design system
• Advocate for the use of fresh design tools and ethical design practices
  Skills: The Minimum Qualifications
• Design is a passion.
• 5+ years as a product designer, user experience designer, or similar role.
• You are a great communicator who gets energized sharing ideas and collaborating with a variety of stakeholders.
• You are well-versed in all things research and when to use each methodology.
• You have a proven track record of working independently and taking ownership. You don t miss the details but are also happy to let your teammates figure out their work.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field
  

The Ideal Qualifications

• A passionate user experience designer with an in-depth understanding of UX practices.
• A data-driven decision maker who leans on research to advance their designs.
• A talented verbal and visual communicator who becomes a trusted partner of product managers and business stakeholders.
• Great at putting just enough detail into wireframes to garner great feedback.
  Interested in and adept at learning new technologies enough to understand trade-offs between development time and impact to the user experience.
• A great collaborator who is well-versed in Agile methodologies and the role of design.
• Well-versed in a variety of design problems, information architecture needs and common interface patterns.
• Great at giving and receiving feedback, collaborating with and coaching other designers.
• Attentive to detail with strong pattern recognition skills.