Senior User Experience Designer
Chicago, IL OR Dallas, TX Hybrid - 2-3 days WFH per week
Position Summary: This role is open with a financial services company. Our UX team is looking for a Senior UX Designer to lead the vision and strategy for a new application shared across all development teams. This includes the brand consolidation of all digital assets, including: website, mobile application, new applications, and more. Your focus will be creating and implementing a governance model to ensure any/all colleagues producing design work are on-brand.
Responsibilities:
- Build on foundations of Design System – contribute UX elements and best practices to Design System, ensure newly designed elements are included in Design System.
- Drive adoption and ensuring all designers leverage the brand standard for Design System.
- Follow UX work through from concept to delivery.
- Provide expert design advice and recommendations to Product and UX designers.
- Effectively communicate UX designs using site maps, user flows, wireframes, mockups, and other deliverables to create an engaging web presence.
- Collaborate with developers to apply design to digital platforms and to ensure cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility.
- Ensure the successful representation of company brand across all media channels.
- Create and maintain design style guides.
- Mentor and coach junior colleagues across the org to become self-sufficient in the design tools, creating reusable templates from which they can produce on-brand artifacts.
- Manage project workflow and coordinate with project teams and management on schedules, requirements, goals and assignments.
- Adhere to all policies and procedures and maintain or update related documentation as needed.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience in UX, UI and digital design
- Previous experience working cross-functionally on a completed UX/front-end product
- Advanced knowledge of web design, usability, and information architecture principles
- Proficient with current design tools, such as Figma, InVision, Adobe Suite, etc.
Nice to have:
- Financial Services experience
- Previous experience working on an enterprise-level product and/or at a large-scale organization