Overview
Skills
Job Details
User Experience Lead Analyst
Jersey city, NJ
Onsite role
Responsibilities:
Lead meetings with users, clients, product sponsors and technology to understand project requirements
Plan and perform UX research, define IA, user journeys, and create personas
Identify metrics and data that can support decision-making, guide tech partners where needed to add necessary metrics
Work closely with users, stakeholders, business analysts, product managers and development teams to brainstorm and co-create ideas, approaches, and solutions
Follow client guidelines and frameworks for UI design
Demonstrate strong visual design skills with a keen eye for usability, effectiveness, typography, color theory, and layout, translating complex concepts into visually compelling and user-friendly interfaces.
Exhibit advanced proficiency in Figma, leveraging its capabilities for creating wireframes, interactive prototypes, high-fidelity designs, and maintaining design systems.
Perform relevant testing to validate and inform design decisions
Apply a positive and constructive attitude to all feedback
Use and contribute to the approved design system
Contribute to design standards and best practices
Perform detailed handover to development teams, ensuring they have all they need to implement the designs
Provide ongoing support to development, with regular UX review checkpoints ensuring quality and spec are as designed
Keep up to date with the latest UX practices, innovations, and tools
Ensure all designs comply with ADA/WCAG standards for accessibility
Deliver on-time, identifying and managing risks to ensure timelines are met, and escalating where needed
Identify and articulate design and technical conflicts between colleagues and/or local stakeholders and help to resolve these.
Promote the value of UX within the wider organization.
Qualifications:
- 10 years of relevant experience
- Strong attention to detail & analytical skills
- Significant experience on complex, enterprise-scale design projects
- Experience with discovery and prototyping states, as a well as experience with Design Thinking and Google Design Sprints.
- Experience with working in an Agile Scrum environment.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Excellent skills in professional design tools e.g., Sketch, Figma, AdobeXD, Axure, InVision etc.
- Experience in using/creating design systems
- Experience using design systems keen interest in, or knowledge of, banking or finance
- HTML/CSS Development Skills Participation in external UX groups or communities
Education:
- Bachelor s/University degree, Master s degree preferred
- At least one formal UX Qualification