UX/UI Designer

MetLife is a leading financial services company recognized for its commitment to customer-centric and data-driven growth. The UX/UI Designer will be responsible for delivering design solutions for enterprise priority programs and evolving design standards, collaborating with cross-functional teams to create customer-centered experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Balance customer needs and business requirements to design user centered experiences
• Define information architecture and sitemaps of digital experiences
• Create user flows to define steps needed to achieve user goals
• Design UI components leveraging the MetLife design system; partner with Global Design System team to ensure reuse of existing components and to inform expansion of MetLife’s design system
• Create wireframes to blueprint the information hierarchy and interactions of a digital experience
• Create prototypes to explore and test design decisions
• Leverage our Brand Experience system to define visual expression throughout the experience
• Inform usability testing plans to gain insights that inform design decisions
• Create production-ready design files and assets for handoff to UI developers
• Perform design quality assurance during development
• Identify design solutions that can scale, create new components to be part of the MetLife global design system

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience designing for responsive web and mobile app
• Skilled in user experience fundamentals: research, wireframes, prototypes, usability testing
• Strong knowledge of user interface design, interaction design, information architecture, visual design and the ability to generate design ideas
• Strong proficiency with Figma, specifically using design libraries and tokens
• Comfortable designing and leveraging a design system
• Experience successfully partnering with product managers, developers, business analysts, content strategists, design researchers and other designers to arrive at optimal solutions
• Strong communication skills with ability to articulate and optimize design based on the value to the user and the business
• Ability to create designs that can scale, ensuring components meet WCAG standards and adapt to various use cases and platforms
• Experience working in iterative processes and in an agile environment
• Financial services and insurance domain knowledge a plus; ability to leverage business and domain knowledge to engage in meaningful conversations with stakeholders, leading to increased design quality and efficiencies
• Skills in CSS, Javascript and HTML a plus
• Experience developing or maintaining design systems a plus
• Bachelors degree preferred