Title: Sr. Product Designer
Location: San Francisco or San Leandro CA, or Charlotte, NC
Type: Contract-to-Hire
Our large Financial Client's is seeking Senior Product Designers to join their high profile Experience Design team.
The Product Designer partners with Product Management and Engineering on a scrum team to deliver a great customer experience. You’re a jack of all trades with leadership experience and proven success delivering great experiences that cross mobile, web, and beyond. You have strong skills in 2 or more key areas: Interaction Design, Visual Design, and/or Content Strategy, and strong Agile Scrum experience.
What you’ll be responsible for
- Delivering great experiences, in partnership with your scrum team and the larger design team, in the areas of: online and mobile banking, payments, financial education, and onboarding
- Creating common UX deliverables including: Flows, Wireframes, Design Specifications, and Content Decks
- Partnering closely with product managers, scrum masters, developers, researchers, business analysts, and legal/compliance, from aligning on customer and business goals, to managing expectations about design deliverables to shipping the ultimate experience
- Estimating and scoping design work; ensuring design deliverables are done sprint(s) ahead of development
- Speaking to the details of the design deliverables and user stories, answering questions and resolving ambiguities
- Grooming user stories with the scrum team and identifying design-related user stories in the backlog
Required Qualifications:
10+ years of experience Deep background in Interaction Design, Digital design and good appreciation of User research and content Strategy.Desired Qualifications:
- A BA/BS or higher in Human Factors or Interaction Design
- Knowledge and understanding of project management principles: managing projects from beginning to end; that vary in scope and complexity
- Leadership experience
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Outstanding problem solving and decision making skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Experience managing vendor delivery including contract negotiation, scoping, writing creative briefs, and problem resolution
- Experience producing mobile and web products that lead to measurable business / customer impact
- Expertise with common design tools (e.g., InVision, Sketch, Photoshop)
- Experience working in an agile environment, with distributed teams and agile delivery tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence)
- Onsite role 3 days week once bank returns to offices in early 2022