Principal UX Designer

In this Principal UX Designer role, you will spearhead our design efforts, guiding us through the creation of transformative and intuitive user interfaces in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You will help establish standards and best practices to create world-class streamlined user experiences that best support our investment professionals and business partners. Your expertise allows us to consider accessibility, interactive design, overall usability, and a responsive frontend architecture, thereby ensuring that our digital products are not only visually appealing but also highly functional and user centric.

• Creates innovative solutions for a wide variety of product design challenges, including desktop, hardware interfaces, physical environments, and person-to-person interactions.
• Leads the design for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences.
• Plans and defines strategy for the direction of future iterations.
• Quickly iterates on multiple interactive design solutions.
• Advocates for design solutions, highlighting inputs that influences decisions including business and user goals, demographic and usage data, and research findings.
• Develops high level, detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes to optimally communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Delivers work that is not only user-friendly and aesthetically engaging, but that also produces results.
• Works alongside engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the production cycle.
• Assesses and optimizes the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics.
• Develops and maintains detailed user-interface specifications.
• Presents design work to multiple teams and senior leadership for review and feedback.
• Creates user experience standards, guidelines, and associated assets to accelerate UI development.
• Contributes to the group’s shared knowledge of user-centered design and research methodologies.

• 8+ years of UX or related design experience in a professional setting
• A degree in a related field such as interactive design, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, or human factors is preferred
• Asset Management or related Investment Applications Design experience is ideal
• Provide design and product thought leadership, identifying and developing strategic design opportunities to drive business and product strategy, creating artifacts to align stakeholders and teams to
• Work across and collaborate with investment professionals, product and engineering leads, and others to develop and prototype product vision
• Lead definition of the design work and deliver business outcomes across multiple product teams, with minimal guidance and coaching
• Distilling qualitative and quantitative feedback to unearth recurring themes and promote data-driven design decisions
• An array of design skills including service design and strategic design methods. Information architecture, prototyping, user research, and visual design will also be essential
• Effective communication, presentation, and storytelling skills; equally at ease speaking with developer or business partners
• Experience working on agile teams delivering value in digital products preferred
• Experience running and/or using research to support evidence-focused design decisions preferred
• A digital portfolio we can review online is required
• Familiarity with the value of design systems, understanding reuse and scale, and knowing when to contribute to make them better
• Work across the organization to drive consistent associate-facing experiences
  
  
  For Immediate Response, Please reach out to me at srinivas at galaxyitech dot com