Product Design Lead

UX Design Lead

Typical Day in Role:
• You will be a player/coach, providing oversight to a small working team of between 2 and 3 product design practitioners on the execution of an end-to-end digital experience.
• You will be a champion for our customers by providing leadership through empathy and inspiration.
• You will build, coach and mentor teams of User Experience Designers at different levels of expertise.
• You will partner and collaborate with another Product Design Lead, product management, engineering, marketing, agile, analytics and other key players within the Digital Banking organization to envision and build products that make our customer’s experience useful, engaging and effective while supporting our business goals.
• You will drive Lean/agile UX approaches pervasively throughout the product lifecycle; helping designers to become the collaborative glue that facilitates decisions across the dimensions of value, usability, and feasibility.
• You will leverage existing communication channels to build relationships, inspire confidence and influence decisions with your key stakeholders.
• You will be accountable for people management and day-to-day Design operations and decisions in regards to information architecture, functionality, UX, usability, visual design content development and research needs.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1. 7+ years of Proven UX/UI Design experience designing responsive web and mobile software applications.
2. 3+ years of experience managing/leading other designers
3. 7+ years of experience and Mastery of Figma or Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite, along with proficiency in prototyping software (Figma, Invision, Proto.io)
4. Must include digital portfolio to showcase work clearly (what was the design thinking process, what was the problem, how did they fix it)

Nice-To-Have Skills:
1. Background in Fintech or other financial related product fields.
2. Spanish (professional or fluent)
3. Ability to build and execute design research methodologies or user testing protocols in a rapid development environment.
4. Experience using Confluence and Jira

Soft Skills Required:
• Ability to communicate using rapid visual design techniques.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to articulate ideas effectively.
• A collaborative leader who leverages diversity across disciplines/locations/levels to fuel creativity and innovation in product design.
• Commitment to get things done and willingness to immerse at the tactical level when necessary.
• A passion for changing the way people bank and a willingness to live in the future and build what’s missing
• Has an interest in tangential fields like typography, design research, big data, fine art, music, writing and communications, etc.

Education:
Bachelor’s degree in human Factors, HCI, Design or related fields (or equivalent work experience).