About this opportunity
Software Technology Inc lists this User Experience Designer opportunity in chicago, Illinois. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Senior Design Lead
We are currently seeking a Senior Design Lead to join our team. We are passionate about advocating for user needs and delivering world-class products that redefine our customers’ day-to-day financial activities.
What You’ll Do
As a leader and maker, you’ll be asked to handle responsibilities, including:
Collaborating with technology, product, and business teams to uncover customer and business needs, then translating them into engaging, simple, and intuitive design solutions and understandable concepts that evolve and enhance the product interface and experience
Engaging in portfolio prioritization to help set the strategy and product road map for the team
Managing through shifting priorities to provide clear direction and input on product prioritization and support early product definition
Advocating for the customer through human-centered design methods, including: discovery, research, whiteboard sessions, and user testing
Championing prioritization of design centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis
Working with partners and teams across various geographies
Embracing and advocating for an experience mindset - this is as important to the work as the results
Building and leading successful teams through career development by mentoring, coaching, and elevating others
Guiding team members in strategy, research, alignment, analysis, design critiques, and design execution tasks
Navigating conflict resolution within your team as well as within projects, teams and partner relationships
Supporting early product definition by working with partners to facilitate discovery sessions that uncover customer pain points and opportunities
Demonstrating familiarity with design tools to deliver concepts and enable successful collaboration across teams
Driving end-to-end product design by:
Working with researchers to understand customer needs and define opportunities through usability and empathy studies and analyzing data trends
Framing problems, defining insights, and designing new methodologies/practices to serve customer needs
Creating process and user flows, wireframes, journey maps, and interaction models, resulting in low to high fidelity prototypes
Planning and facilitating workshops with internal and external stakeholders to align with business needs
Designing within existing — and creating new — standards to contribute to our internal design system, best practices, and guidelines
Storytelling through business acumen and presenting visual concepts to various stakeholders
Creating high fidelity design assets for acceptance, development, and delivery to market in partnership with technology colleagues
Basic Qualifications
At least 8 years of experience with (UX) User Experience and (UI) User Interface design
At least 5 years of experience managing a design team
Preferred Qualifications
Experience designing for cross channel experiences
Comfortable working with a variety of business partners and delivering outcomes
Familiarity with design and prototyping tools, such as Adobe Products, Sketch and Figma
Familiarity with working with, contributing to, and established design system
Experience managing a cross-functional team
Required Skills: Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Basic Qualification: Additional Skills: Background Check: Yes Drug Screen: Yes Notes: Upon offer, it is required to show consultants W2 take home pay in the Exh A. Vendor must disclose candidate's W2 hourly $$$ in the comments section when submitting in iLabor.
Worksite address
chicago, IL, 60290, US
Who can apply
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