Senior UX Designer

Job#: 3031312

Job Description:
Senior UX Designer

Location: Austin, Texas (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Contract

Role Overview

The User Experience and Design team is responsible for software design across advisor services platforms, primarily for desktop and responsive mobile applications. We are a multi-disciplinary group of user experience designers, visual designers, content writers, and researchers. Our purpose is to design tools and experiences that enable users to achieve their financial goals by partnering with strategic business and technology teams to build best-in-class software experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate collaborative design sessions, including sketching and ideation.
• Lead design reviews and drive design decisions.
• Create design solutions with a multi-faceted team, considering all aspects of the user experience.
• Translate established patterns and design systems to ensure company goals are met.
• Visualize ideas in a clear form (sketch, diagram, wireframe, or prototype) and provide appropriate documentation.
• Set expectations with the project team, prioritize activities, and maintain design schedules.
• Communicate status and agreements with the project team.
• Conduct primary design activities, create deliverables, and perform quality assurance at an expert level.
• Participate in and support user research efforts.
• Work collaboratively with all partners to deliver work and support team members.

Required Qualifications

Technical Skills: Expertise with foundational UX principles, experience executing high-fidelity design, and documentation/project tracking experience using tools like Confluence and Jira.

Compensation & Benefits

Pay Rate: $65.00/hr - $75.00/hr

Why Join Us

• You will support an engaged set of users who rely on these products to manage their financial lives.
• By researching and understanding user needs, you will directly impact how users conduct their business.
• You will learn how to balance functionality against complexity on a highly visible platform.
• You will collaborate with an engaged design team that fosters a learning environment.

This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.