Senior User Experience/Interaction Designer

Description:

Senior User Experience/Interaction Designer 

This role requires that all successful applicants be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of the engagement and provide proof of such vaccinations within 3 days of commencement of services. 

NEED SOMEONE LOCAL AND READY TO WORK out of the Location on this req. 

FYI, where work location is US onsite, the expectation will be that contingents attest they are vaccinated and upload proof of vaccination within 3 days of their start date, else they would be disengaged. 

This would be based exclusively on job location in Fieldglass/Workday. 

The company’s User Experience and Design Group (within the Institutional Securities Technology division) are looking for a contract Senior User Experience/Interaction Designer to join their team based in New York. 

This is a unique opportunity to join one of the most reputable design teams in finance known for consistently delivering innovative, award-winning software applications used by internal teams and clients of the firm. 

The global team, which is made up of Interaction Designers, Visual Designers and UI Developers based in London, New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Montreal, and Glasgow, deliver user-centered design and strategy projects across the Institutional business: from client-facing applications, to tools and software for front office sales and trading, Investment Banking and Global Capital Markets, middle and back-office, infrastructure, and data as well as HR and corporate services. 

Known for their open and collaborative team culture and high standards, the team thrives on challenging the status quo and delivering solutions that create tangible benefits for both users and the business. As a member of this high-performing team, you will need to be a talented and detail-oriented Interaction Designer and User-Centered Design practitioner with the proven leadership and communications skills needed to build trust with a complex matrix of interdisciplinary clients and partners across the organization. 

Position Description:

The Senior User Experience/Interaction Designer will handle the research, planning, design, and documentation of user interfaces for web-based, hand-held, and desktop applications 

The ideal candidate Is detail-oriented with strong interaction design skills 

Has excellent communication, presentation, and client management skills Is well versed in iterative User Centered Research and Design process 

Has experience working in Agile development environments, specifically using scrum methodology Understands and has opinions about current industry best practices Has experience designing transactional user interfaces, not simply static web sites Balances an academic interest in best practices with tactical solutions 

Manages client expectations and own time efficiently Enjoys collaborating with product owners and business analysts to design innovative solutions 

Has experience with data/information visualization Is fluent is standard design software and tooling (Sketch, Adobe, Axure etc.) 

Skills Required: 

The Senior User Experience/Interaction Designer will need to be able to: Follow an Iterative User-Centered Research & Design Process Work collaboratively in a cross-disciplinary design team contributing to UX operational initiatives beyond the scope of their project work (design crits, design ops etc.) 

Conduct Ethnographic User research Define/Develop Personas Create Feature maps & prioritization Develop Sitemaps & User Journeys Create Wireframes & Interaction Models 

Conduct User testing 

Education and experience: 10+ years industry experience, Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Financial Services industry experience a plus but not essential 

Portfolio and References mandatory