Fidelity Asset Management Fixed Income, FFO, and Trading Services (FIFT) is looking to create transformative and intuitive user interfaces for investment professionals and business partners, and needs a Principal UX Designer to spearhead design efforts and establish standards and best practices for world-class user experiences.
Requirements
- 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 critical
- Familiarity with the value of design systems, understanding reuse and scale, and knowing when to contribute to make them better
- 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
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.
- Develops high level, detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
- Delivers work that is not only user-friendly and aesthetically engaging, but that also produces results.
- Assesses and optimizes the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics.
Other
- A degree in a related field such as interactive design, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, or human factors is preferred
- Effective communication, presentation, and storytelling skills; equally at ease speaking with developer or business partners
- Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture, with most hybrid roles requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office
- Must be able to work in a team environment and collaborate with investment professionals, product and engineering leads, and others
- Must be able to distill qualitative and quantitative feedback to unearth recurring themes and promote data-driven design decisions
