User Experience Designer - Fintech Experience Required

Duration: 12+ month W2 Contract

Location: Tysons, VA, US

Top Skills' Details

• UX designer with enterprise design experience as well as visual design.

• Experience with digital banking or at least financial/banking experience with a customer facing application.

• Experience with a mobile application that is consumer facing.

• Experience working with Figma.

Description

As a UX Designer, you're a information architect, interaction designer, usability researcher, and visual designer. You will visualize the user experience through flows, journeys, information architecture diagrams, conceptual sketches, wireframes, and hi-fidelity designs based on user data, research, and best practices. Partnering with UX Strategists, Digital Product Managers, and stakeholders, you will deliver experiences that support member retention and new member growth.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.

• Create digital banking experiences that are effective, efficient, and satisfying to maximize our product relevance

• Own the creative process from ideation to final deliverable, partnering with UX strategists, UX researchers, other UX designers, UX writers, and UI designers

• Translate complex problems into "simple" practical design solutions that are grounded in data and insights across all lines of business including deposits, auto, credit card, and lending

• Visualize the user experience through user flows, customer journeys, information architecture diagrams, conceptual sketches, wireframes, and hi-fidelity designs based on user data, research, and best practices

• Gather and synthesize design inputs (qual/quant data, primary/secondary research, competitive analysis, business requirements, system capabilities, regulatory requirements, etc.) to determine how we approach a design problem

• Support researchers in creating evaluative usability tests including research plans, creating low and high-fidelity interactive prototypes, moderating sessions, reporting outcomes with stakeholders, and presenting design improvements

• Communicate conceptual ideas, detailed designs, and design rationale visually and verbally to stakeholders at all levels of the organization

• Collaborate closely with product managers to ensure design solutions meet established success criteria and bring the product vision to life

• Contribute to and leverage a design system to promote delivery speed, brand consistency, designing at scale, creativity, and innovation

• Draft written content and apply basic content standards

• Collaborate with engineers and technologists to determine the most efficient way to implement designs

• Collaborate with project managers to identify delivery milestones, coordinate design reviews, and communicate blockers and status

Education and Experience

Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.

• Bachelor's degree in user experience design, graphic design, human factors, or a related field

• 5 years of experience in digital design, preferably with a financial institution or fintech

• A design portfolio or project case study as a PDF or website

• Experience designing native mobile and responsive web applications

• Experience with inclusive design and accessibility per the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) guidelines

• Familiarity with Apple Human Centered Guidelines, Google Material Design, Salesforce Lightning, and related design systems

• Proficiency in a variety of UX tools and collaboration platforms such as Sketch, InVision, Axure, Miro/Mural, etc.

• Familiarity with outcome-driven design, agile software development, and Lean UX

• Experience communicating ideas and telling stories in visual formats

• Solution-oriented approach and positive attitude

• Enthusiasm for establishing a design thinking culture in one of the nation's largest credit unions

• Ability to understand the big picture, take ownership, and tackle problems wherever they arise

• Ability to maturely discuss design and communicate design rationale; comfort giving and receiving feedback in design reviews

Skills

Ux design, Ux strategy, Design, Digital, figma

Experience Level

Expert Level

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.