Responsibilities

• Work in close collaboration with other UX/UI team members, while also being able to take on a leadership role when needed.
• Maintain close communication with clients (primarily US based) to effectively present and justify design decisions, manage project timelines, expectations, and requirements.
• Deeply understand and balance the needs of the client, the end user, and our own business. And in turn, be able to feed those back into the design process.
• Envision the big picture but still manage and keep track of all the details.
• Thrive in an agile environment where many technical features are being designed simultaneously and priorities are shifting.
• Successfully juggle multiple projects and still meet deadlines.
• Take on a lead role in product design, including writing use cases, diagramming and creating robust wireframes to communicate your ideas.
• Work at all levels of UX, translating feature docs into wireframes, use case flows, interactive prototypes, and mockups.
• Independently design new features from concept through high-fidelity, clickable prototypes.
• Create products with highly functional, but also delightful UI.
• Create and maintain unique visual design systems.
• Conduct Primary and Secondary Research to impact the product design and direction through user findings and benchmark data.
• Conduct user testing sessions to validate the proposal designs and provide user-centered solutions.

Requirements

• 7+ years of UX and UI design experience.
• Demonstrated mastery of UI/UX, prototyping, visual design, and research synthesis. We’ll be looking for a strong portfolio of your past work that details your challenges, ideas, and impact.
• Proficiency with common design tools such as: Sketch, Adobe, Figma, Invision. We’re open to others.
• Mastery of modern web app design best-practices.
• Deeply empathetic about the user experience.
• Self-starter and team player.
• High motivation to teach, learn, and contribute to our team and process development.
• Excellent time and priority management.
• Superior communication skills. Clear internal communication is critical in this role.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Experience designing for robust web and mobile applications.
• Experience in all phases of the design process including user research, copywriting, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, interaction design, and usability testing.
• Knowledge of how to conduct primary and secondary research to gather insights about users that will impact the design decisions and experience.
• Stay up to date on current industry trends and market conditions.
• Ability to effectively communicate and persuade around design concepts
• Experience specifically using Figma.

Additional qualifications

• Knowledge of basic HTML, CSS, and/or JavaScript.
• Experience designing Fintech solutions.