Principal UX Designer

Kforce has a client in Merrimack, NH that is seeking a Principal UX Designer.

Responsibilities:

• Creates innovative solutions for a wide variety of product design challenges, including desktop, hardware interfaces, physical environments, and person-to-person interactions
• Leads the design for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences
• Plans and defines strategy for the direction of future iterations
• Quickly iterates on multiple interactive design solutions
• Advocates for design solutions, highlighting inputs that influences decisions including business and user goals, demographic and usage data, and research findings
• Develops high level, detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes to optimally communicate interaction and design ideas
• Delivers work that is not only user-friendly and aesthetically engaging, but that also produces results
• Works alongside engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the production cycle
• Assesses and optimizes the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics
• Develops and maintains detailed user-interface specifications
• Presents design work to multiple teams and senior leadership for review and feedback
• Creates user experience standards, guidelines, and associated assets to accelerate UI development
• Contributes to the group's shared knowledge of user-centered design and research methodologies
• Provide design and product thought leadership, identifying and developing strategic design opportunities to drive business and product strategy, creating artifacts to align stakeholders and teams to
• Work across and collaborate with investment professionals, product and engineering leads, and others to develop and prototype product vision
• Lead definition of the design work and deliver business outcomes across multiple product teams, with minimal guidance and coaching* A degree in a related field such as interactive design, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, or human factors is preferred
• 8+ years of UX or related design experience in a professional setting
• Asset Management or related Investment Applications Design experience is ideal
• An array of design skills including service design and strategic design methods; Information architecture, prototyping, user research, and visual design will also be essential
• Effective communication, presentation, and storytelling skills; Equally at ease speaking with developer or business partners
• Experience working on agile teams delivering value in digital products preferred
• Experience running and/or using research to support evidence-focused design decisions preferred
• A digital portfolio we can review online is required
• Familiarity with the value of design systems, understanding reuse and scale, and knowing when to contribute to make them better
• Able to work across the organization to drive consistent associate-facing experiences