job summary:
NOTE:
*** CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCAL TO AUSTIN - will be req'd to report onsite ***
TOP SKILLS - Per AM - B2B experience - complex transactional design - systems thinking
- 11+ years experience REQUIRED Please list your candidate's location on the resume or in the submittal notes. All submittals must have a portfolio link or pdf.
Candidates without that will not be passed through.
Title: Senior User Experience Designer
We believe that, when done right, investing liberates people to create their own destiny.
We are driven by our purpose to champion every client's goals with passion and integrity.
We respect and appreciate the diversity of our employees, our clients, and the communities we serve.
We challenge conventions strategically to create value for our clients, our firm and the world.
We live and bring to life the concept of 'own your tomorrow' every day.
We champion our employee strengths, guide their development, and invest in their long-term success.
We hire optimistic, results-oriented, curious, innovative, and adaptable people with the desire to help our clients and one another succeed.
The Opportunity:
The User Experience and Design Team is responsible for software design across mobile, web and desktop platforms.
We are a multi-disciplinary group of user experience designers, visual designers, content writers and researchers.
We work with strategic business and technology partners across the enterprise to build best-in-class software experiences for our users.
Our business is driven by looking through our clients' eyes, which makes it a great place to practice user-centered design.
Our purpose is designing tools and experiences that enable users to achieve their financial goals.
The team is responsible for:
Design Consulting
- Lead design reviews and drive decisions.
- Create design solutions with a multi-faceted team.
- Represent the design team brand, and deliver a consistent design process to partners.
- Understand great designs are achieved iteratively.
- Visualize ideas in a clear form (sketch, diagram, wireframe or prototype) and provide appropriate level documentation.
Design Expertise and Execution
- Maintain the high standards set by the group.
- Conduct the primary design activities, create deliverables and conduct QA at an expert level.
- Participate and support research efforts.
- Commit to improving our process and methods with an emphasis on both effectiveness and efficiency. Teamwork, Collaboration and Engagement
- Work well with all partners to deliver work.
- Support UX team members.
- Strategically listen to feedback and help guide the delivery.
- Collaborative and cooperative.
- Has a design position but is not rigidly fixed when presented with new information.
- Passionate about team, our mission and the needs of our partners and users.
- Enthusiastic about UX design. Empathy & Curiosity
- Understand user needs, walking in their shoes when possible.
- Focus on innovation and improvement.
- Regularly learns more about design theory, practice and tools.
Why your work matters:
- You will support an engaged set of Registered Independent Advisors who rely on our products to manage their business and their client's financial lives.
- By researching and understanding user needs you will be able to impact how our users do business with client .
- You will learn how balance functionality against complexity on a highly used platform.
- You will work with an engaged design team that fosters a learning environment.
What you have:
- 11 + years of rich interaction design focused on digital products.
- 1+ year of interaction design experience for touch-based mobile interfaces is a plus.
- An online portfolio demonstrating interaction design process and thinking.
- Experienced with all aspects of a user-centered interaction design process, including user research, developing user flows, creating wireframes, conducting usability tests and creating annotated design specifications.
- Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team within an iterative process and an Agile development methodology. Robust self-management skills, comfortable with substantial responsibility, working directly with our client partners, and capable of managing your project schedules.
- Proficient in design tools like Sketch, Invision, and Figma.
- Experience running design sessions with cross-functional teams.
- Effective relationship builder--ability to partner cross-functionally, cross-enterprise and work effectively with various levels of the organization as well as various personality types.
- Comfort in a project-oriented work environment, with a positive attitude and solid work ethic.
location: Austin, Texas
job type: Contract
salary: $70 - 75 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
The team is responsible for:
Design Consulting
- Lead design reviews and drive decisions.
- Create design solutions with a multi-faceted team.
- Represent the design team brand, and deliver a consistent design process to partners.
- Understand great designs are achieved iteratively.
- Visualize ideas in a clear form (sketch, diagram, wireframe or prototype) and provide appropriate level documentation.
Design Expertise and Execution
- Maintain the high standards set by the group.
- Conduct the primary design activities, create deliverables and conduct QA at an expert level.
- Participate and support research efforts.
- Commit to improving our process and methods with an emphasis on both effectiveness and efficiency. Teamwork, Collaboration and Engagement
- Work well with all partners to deliver work.
- Support UX team members.
- Strategically listen to feedback and help guide the delivery.
- Collaborative and cooperative.
- Has a design position but is not rigidly fixed when presented with new information.
- Passionate about team, our mission and the needs of our partners and users.
- Enthusiastic about UX design. Empathy & Curiosity
- Understand user needs, walking in their shoes when possible.
- Focus on innovation and improvement.
- Regularly learns more about design theory, practice and tools.
Why your work matters:
- You will support an engaged set of Registered Independent Advisors who rely on our products to manage their business and their client's financial lives.
- By researching and understanding user needs you will be able to impact how our users do business with client .
- You will learn how balance functionality against complexity on a highly used platform.
- You will work with an engaged design team that fosters a learning environment.
qualifications:
What you have:
- 11 + years of rich interaction design focused on digital products.
- 1+ year of interaction design experience for touch-based mobile interfaces is a plus.
- An online portfolio demonstrating interaction design process and thinking.
- Experienced with all aspects of a user-centered interaction design process, including user research, developing user flows, creating wireframes, conducting usability tests and creating annotated design specifications.
- Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team within an iterative process and an Agile development methodology. Robust self-management skills, comfortable with substantial responsibility, working directly with our client partners, and capable of managing your project schedules.
- Proficient in design tools like Sketch, Invision, and Figma.
- Experience running design sessions with cross-functional teams.
- Effective relationship builder--ability to partner cross-functionally, cross-enterprise and work effectively with various levels of the organization as well as various personality types.
- Comfort in a project-oriented work environment, with a positive attitude and solid work ethic
Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.
At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
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