UX Designer – Wealth
Working with one of the top financial clients, this role calls for a UX Designer – Wealth who will be working alongside the Design System Brand Experience team to define and craft the expressive elements that would influence our digital brand experience. This role requires a versatile skill set ranging from Visual Design, UI/UX Design, Motion Design, to custom illustration development. This candidate will be involved from concept creation to design delivery and thrive in a fast-paced environment with minimal guidance. The successful candidate will take initiative to collaborate with the various cross-functional teams to understand brand strategy, business goals, user needs, brand and accessibility standards and technical constraints, translating them into effective design solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Understand business challenges and identify unmet customer needs
- Conceptualize and design the best possible engaging end-to-end product experiences
- Create digital experiences that are thoughtful, compelling and meet marketing strategies and business goals
- Participate in observational studies, usability testing and other user research. When required, you will plan, conduct and primary and secondary design research data to inform the design direction.
- Collaborate with lead designers and contribute to creating interaction solutions that advocate for the user.
- Design and create reusable components in Figma.
- Provide detailed specifications to developers.
- Have a wide understanding of technical constraints and include them in your solutions, but also know when to push boundaries.
- Connect and work alongside other team members from technical teams, product owner and marketing to deliver an experience that exceeds the user's needs and expectations
- Comfortably develop custom illustrations (2D and 3D) and animations that reinforce emotional connection with working knowledge of motion constraints (e.g. After Effects workflows/Lotti file convert restrictions)
- Experience in editorial design (eg annual report) is a plus
- Willingness to experiment with new platforms and software, a quick learner who adapts easily and isn’t afraid to step into new environments.
- Deliver high-quality assets at speed while balancing multiple priorities across digital products and initiatives.
- Able to pick up the established design patterns quickly, and create new effective ones from initial design, overseeing development to delivery stages
Desired Skill Set:
- A degree in design or a design-related discipline – user-centred design, visual design, graphic design, product design, etc. (or equivalent work experience)
- 5+ years of experience designing interactive experiences (or equivalent work experience)
- Comprehensive understanding of interaction and UI design
- Passion for creating simple and stunning visual design solutions
- Ability to translate conceptual ideas into compelling customer experiences
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Good fundamental understanding of Responsive Web design and Mobile Application design (Android and iOS)
- Ability to ask good questions and communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
- Ability to communicate ideas to a diverse audience and constructively integrate feedback
- A conceptual thinker with proven problem-solving skills
- Ability to see the & “ big picture; and hone in on the details
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate well in a team environment
- Proficiency with design tools with Adobe's Creative Suite
- Strong portfolio that showcases your understanding of user-centred design
- Fundamental understanding of design principles and branding
- Proficiency with Adobe's Creative Suite (including After Effects to create animation, Adobe Illustrator to develop custom illustration (2D and 3D) and InDesign for page layout) as well as industry-leading interface design tools such as Figma
Nice To Have:
- Experience working in the Financial industry is an asset
- General understanding of Agile Methodologies or experience working in an agile process
- Skillsets to create high-fidelity prototypes, user flow diagrams, and storyboards
- General understanding of HTML/CSS (able to produce web-ready assets and designs)
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