Lead User Experience Engineer

Role: User Experience Designer

Locations: Dallas, TX Tampa, FL Jersey City McLean Boston (Hybrid)

JOB DESCRIPTION:

With more than 50 years of experience, our client is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, providing clearing, settlement, and trade reporting services to financial market participants.

Our client's data team seeks a user experience (UX) design professional to optimize and scale proven data visualization practices that deliver an optimal user experience for our global Finance Clients, Devs, and Colleagues.

As a member of our Data Office, you’ll play a role in our connected Client experience.

UX is central to evolving our client experience and you\'ll join a visible, growing and supported team with diverse abilities across a variety of Client-facing data apps.

Working with multiple perspectives across a wealth of products and data, we collaborate with and encourage each other to achieve common goals.

We favor candidates with a strong grasp of design methods and research principles as they relate to a user-centered process and Client UIs. client's automates, centralizes, standardizes, and streamlines processes in capital markets.

We support our employees to grow, succeed, and create work that empowers our world.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Be well-versed in prototyping tools and techniques with a keen eye for accessible responsive design.

Engage with our development and/or product teams to understand business problems and goals.

Be comfortable and enabled to explore questions working on assorted projects on multiple platforms.

Stay current on the latest technology and growing digital trends within UX R&D as well as FinTech.

Collaborate closely with Clients and stakeholders to analyze product requirements / evolve features.

Analyze and test proposed interaction design concepts using task analysis and cognitive walkthroughs.

Develop an understanding of active and prospective Clients via secondary and primary Client research through Client interviews, usage data, etc. to detail informed Client personas and prioritized needs.

Perform usability testing with Clients (in-person/remote); compile, analyze, and report on test results.

Utilize current usability techniques (e.g., heuristic analysis, card sorting, affordance testing, interactive prototyping, etc.) to conduct and apply contextual inquiry and other forms of ethnographic research.

Demonstrate proven team effort, superior analytical skills, and possess excellent interpersonal abilities.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor\'s degree preferred or equivalent experience

Minimum of 5-7 years of direct UX work experience, including FinTech, Gov, and/or Enterprise UX practices.

Must be able to provide a portfolio of 2-4 design case studies – including FinTech, Gov, and/or Enterprise UX.

Solid knowledge of UX design principles; experience building interactive design.

Mature interaction design skills with strong understanding of information hierarchy are absolutely vital.

Leverage applied knowledge of usability theory / principles; can persuade communicating design.

Must demonstrate portfolio of interaction research / design work – school projects may be included.

Can work independently, prioritize time between multiple projects, and adapt to different projects.

Ability to present concepts with clarity and passion plus receive feedback with poise and empathy.

Good judgment, strong integrity, maturity, and fairness interacting with people and confidential info.

Strategic problem solver with bias for advanced planning to achieve scalable and sustainable growth.

At least basic understanding of web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, databases, etc.) is expected.

EOE:

Our client is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at our client are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.