User Experience Designer

Job Title: User Experience Designer

Location: New York City or McLean, VA (3 days onsite a week)

Duration: 8 months base contract

Job Description:

Anti money laundering design team - Risk management

Half his team is based in McLean

Cross functional partners NYC McLean and richmond

AML team - we support all the products that are AML investigators use

2-3 keystone larger products that they invest most of their attention towards, this role will support 1 of those

Nature of this product is mainly a work management tool, very dense in functionality, information and enterprise data / work item data

Always look for some experience working with enterprise tools, working at similar large banks, highly regulated spaces

The density and functionality of data tables and forms to fill out and there are interesting and complex problems to solve

Visually they look for designers to handle functionality so it doesn''t feel overly complex or confusing to users

On a day to day basis, this person should be collaborating with product and tech partners

Pretty semi autonomous, confident and clear in ability to understand problems they will be asked to solve, plan of attack to

Lean on cross functional partners in product and tech to unblock themselves

As a team: 4 FTE designers, meet regularly throughout the week to do critiques and status updates

Peers available for this person to onboard them and help with files and tools they use

Onboard quickly, get lay of the land and work closely and independently

Will this person be focused on interaction? Will it be full stack design? Visual design?

Answer: they do have existing design systems, they don''t need to get into pixels of creating new components for system, but they DO need someone who is pretty good with interaction designer with a PRODUCT mindset

They work in a fast moving area, needs someone who go can go toe to toe with product / engineering, not just take direction, someone who has intuition and push back if what they''re being asked to do doesn''t make sense

User experience, interaction, working with predefined product requirements and use cases

Each designer has their own projects that they own independently, but they have regular meetings during week to share status updates

When browsing through portfolios, mostly looking for someone who seems to have experience working on similar products

Portfolios with enterprise products in B2B, fintech, banking space

More functional than visual

Data tables, forms to fill out, going deep into complex workflows

They have to be able to see someone is comfortable being in those spaces (even though it is hard to do in these high regulated spaces)

Years of experience being 3-5 to make sure person has done similar work in a similar space, steer away with people less than 3 years

They will have daily interactions with product and engineering, they are spending more time with those people than with Greg

Interview process: review portfolios and resumes asynchronously and then during interview it will be 1 hour portfolio presentation and conversation

May pull in one other person during interview

Figma is a MUST

Job Description:

User Experience Designer

Product Design Expertise: Leverage deep expertise in product design and skills across interaction, visual and service design. Collaborate with cross-functional partners, use appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and work with teams to create artifacts that may include journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs and prototypes

Human-Centered: Champion the customer through the design process, leveraging critical-thinking skills that factor in data, research insights, scalability, tech constraints and feedback

Business-Focused: Understand and apply business and customer strategy, facilitate design process activities with team and partners, negotiating customer needs and business goals for harmonious outcomes

Problem-Solving: Understand of the potential of tech and data capabilities and emerging technologies and use this knowledge to inform work and help your team navigate technical limitations

Communication: Present work to audiences across levels and job functions using a human-centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to effectively articulate insights and design decisions.

The ideal candidate has a strong portfolio demonstrating their process, results, and impact.

Qualifications:

At least 4 years of experience in a Product Design role

At least 4 years of experience with design and prototyping tools, such as Figma

At least 4 years of experience collaborating with product, tech and business partners

At least 4 years of experience working with an established design system

Experience working in heavily regulated, data heavy problem spaces