UX Designer

Qualifications

• An ability to mentor other designers and work across teams is encouraged
• These digital experiences might be personal, for school, or professional
• We are particularly interested in people with native mobile or responsive design experience
• A true passion for design and a desire to do the right thing and produce meaningful work!
• A digital portfolio we can review online is required
• You demonstrate a clear and compelling design sense grounded in compassion and thoughtfulness
• You show an aptitude and enthusiasm for working in teams, and a willingness to help your team complete tasks outside the realm of design, if necessary
• You have a broad set of design skills, which might include visual and graphic design, information architecture, prototyping, front-end coding, strategic design methods (such as design thinking), user research, or writing
• You can get a little nerdy about at least one of the design skills above
• You understand, or are willing to learn, the principles of Lean UX and how to adapt your process, activities and artifacts to best serve the squad
• You are familiar with the value of design systems and how to use them
• You communicate well, whether on the phone, over video, in writing, or in person
• You enjoy learning, and happily teach others
• You have a powerful impulse to improve existing designs, invent new experiences, and perform better than our competition
• Design brings you joy, and it shows
• Bringing business ideas to life, through sketching, wireframing, prototyping, testing, writing, and coding

Responsibilities

• This design role will be embedded on an agile squad in our retail (e.g. Fidelity.com or our mobile app) business
• Designers in this model work with their squad daily, and report to a UX Chapter Leader
• In this role, you will be paired with an agile squad delivering experience for Wealth Management customers
• You’ll partner with analysts, business strategists, and developers to bring the work to life
• Helping your team deliver valuable experiences to our customers, even if it means pursuing non-design tasks on occasion
• Facilitating and inspiring idea generation techniques with your squad