Digital Product Designer

Overview

Join our financial client’s dynamic team and play a pivotal role in crafting intuitive, engaging, and high-performing digital products. In this role, you will directly influence solutions used by millions, contributing to a company that deeply values customer experience and sets global standards for digital excellence. If you’re a natural problem solver, a clear communicator, and a facilitator eager to make a tangible impact from idea generation to implementation, this is your opportunity to push the boundaries of digital product design and improve lives.

**What You’ll Do:**

As a Digital Product Designer, you will shape the experiences created through digital products, working within an agile and iterative environment. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary team members and stakeholders to analyze, design, and convey your design vision, contributing to every step of the process from idea generation to implementation.

**Key Responsibilities:**

* **Interaction Design Strategy**
* Understand user interface patterns and behaviors to drive user comprehension and improve task performance.
* Utilize visualizations and interactions to support analytic thinking with large data sets.
* Facilitate design critique, evaluate interactions for inclusivity, and provide expert advice and guidance to cross-functional teams.
* Facilitate ideation sessions and collaborative work activities.
* Act as the interaction design subject-matter expert for the product design team.

* **Interaction Artifact Creation**
* Apply a comprehensive understanding of interaction design theory, research data, and best practices to inform design decisions.
* Design artifacts of high complexity to communicate task flows, touchpoints, behaviors, and the exchange of information.
* Create complex low-fidelity sketches, wireframes, and prototypes to explore, communicate, and validate ideas.
* Develop complex prototypes to provide delivery specifications for development.
* Present interaction design work to senior stakeholders.

* **Research and Testing**
* Facilitate usability testing.
* Participate in or initiate research activities.
* Research interaction design strategies within the relevant industry sector and perform competitive audits pertinent to specific design or business goals.
* Perform pattern, micro-interaction, and component design audits where appropriate.

**What’s in it for you:**

You’ll thrive in a culture where designers feel included, valued, and heard, surrounded by supportive peers who excel in their areas of expertise. You’ll contribute to a company that truly values customer experience and remains a Global Digital leader, working on solutions used by millions and pushing the boundaries of digital product design to improve lives and communities.

**What You’ll Need to Succeed:**

**Must-have:**

* BA/BS degree in Design (e.g., interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science (CS), or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
* A minimum of 5 years of experience in designing usable interfaces across multiple channels and platforms.
* Experience in an applied research setting, including integrating user research into product designs and design practices.
* Demonstrated ability to articulate design strategy, rationale, and logic; describing benefits and highlighting risks associated with design decisions.
* Demonstrated expertise with design, prototyping, and research tools such as Figma, Mural, UserTesting.com.

**Nice-to-have:**

* MA/MS degree or certification in Design (e.g., interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science (CS), or a related field.
* Strong understanding of strengths and shortcomings of different research methods, including when and how to apply them during each product phase.
* Appreciation for the potential of ‘design thinking’.
* Experience working within a large organization and within an agile environment.

**About Aquent Talent:**

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.
Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits!
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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