Job Description
You are a strategic, user-centric design leader with a passion for crafting exceptional financial experiences. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you can seamlessly blend creativity with data-driven insights. This role offers you the chance to be the visionary behind a transformative product on the Q4 Platform.
Youโll inspire a team of designers and help shape the productโs digital identity. Your expertise in user research will fuel innovation as you uncover hidden opportunities and translate complex financial concepts into intuitive, user-friendly solutions. Youโre a natural storyteller, capable of captivating audiences with compelling design narratives that drive business impact. You think big over a long-term horizon, but are also comfortable rolling up your sleeves and driving execution day-to-day.
Responsibilities
- Shape the UX vision for one of our innovative offerings, aligning it with business goals and user needs.
- Lead and navigate the design process effectively within a fast-paced environment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality design solutions. Foster a culture of agility and continuous improvement within the design team, enabling them to thrive under pressure.
- Conduct independent market research and user research to inform design decisions specific to your Q4 Platform domain. Utilize strong interpersonal skills to build rapport with users during research.
- Play an active role in roadmap planning, contributing ideas, and prioritizing features for the Q4 Platform.
- Effectively communicate the user impact of your design solutions, utilizing data, user research, and persuasive narratives to gain buy-in from stakeholders. Focus on decisions that drive a positive and efficient user experience.
- Lead and execute high-fidelity UI design for the Q4 Platform, ensuring a cohesive, user-centered visual experience that aligns with the overall product vision and brand. This includes defining the visual language, crafting pixel-perfect mockups, and collaborating with developers to guarantee design fidelity in the final product.
- Foster a collaborative and proactive design team environment, encouraging open communication and the sharing of ideas. Utilize your influence to guide the team towards a shared vision and inspire them to achieve excellence.
- Mentor Product Designers, fostering their growth in communication, user research, and design skills.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in UX design or product design, with a leadership track record, and experience in the B2B SaaS industry.
- Portfolio demonstrating the ability to deliver high-quality, user-centered design solutions.
- Possess a deep understanding of user behavior and decision-making processes around financial products and data security. Leverage this expertise to inform design decisions that prioritize user trust, security, and a seamless financial experience.
- Extensive experience with user research methodologies and user testing tools.
- Exceptional communicator with the ability to tailor communication style to diverse audiences (e.g., technical teams, senior leadership, users). Can clearly articulate complex design concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A highly motivated and results-oriented designer who takes initiative and ownership of design challenges. Leverages strong strategic thinking to identify opportunities and drive design solutions that deliver significant impact on the user experience.
- Expertise in UX tools like Figma, Sketch, Maze, Dovetail, etc.
- Understanding of user behavior around and data security (preferred).
