Digital Product Designer

Overview

The designer will be working on designing solutions for an investment project include platforms that caters to both clients and internal advisors and is presented in a web responsive format.  The designer will work closely with a cross-functional team and various stakeholders to define the experience and requirements to meet business objectives and user needs.

Responsibilities:

• The designer will be responsible leading initiatives with product and business partners
• Provide their direction and expertise with their cross-functional team members
• Understand the problem/opportunity and use ‘design thinking’ methods to formulate solutions
• Facilitate working sessions to define the right problem to solve and possible solutions that meet our objectives
• Inform their designs and validate their hypothesis/solutions through testing
• Create designs in various fidelities relative to the phase of the project to communicate accordingly to the team and stakeholders
• Figma, Mural, Confluence, and JIRA are used on a daily basis utilizing respective functions

Top 5 Skills:

• Ability to lead and take projects end-to-end
• Applied strong interaction and visual design skills
• Product mindset that can discern for value and trade-offs
• Strong technical skills (Figma, design system)
• Strong communication & collaboration skills

Nice to Have Skills:

• Maintaining a design system
• Workshop facilitation skills
• Has worked with large design teams and multiple stakeholders (Product/Business/Technical partners)
• Research and user testing

Experience:

• Product design mindset who is strategic as well as practical in context to product development
• Ability to take initiatives end-to-end from brief to completion
• Curious and explores different avenues to gain new perspectives
• Effectively communicate with peers and stakeholders to define direction for solutions and tasks to be performed
• Possesses defined processes that can adapt and discern the activities needed based on scope and timelines
• Comfortable working on multiple projects, quick turn arounds, and good judgement and collaboration for must-haves and trade-offs based on the initiative
• Pro-active and responsive to meet the needs of the team
• Solid time management and comfortable in presenting their work to larger audiences
• Solid foundation and understanding of user experience and design principles
• Experienced in visual design with a natural feel for typography and aesthetics
• Advanced experience working with Figma, design systems, and components
• Applies mobile-first design

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