User Experience (UX) Designer (Hybrid)

Location: Austin, Texas
Job Type: Contract
Compensation Range: $70 - 75 per hour

We are seeking a Senior User Experience Designer to join our multi-disciplinary Client UX & Design team. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting software experiences across our advisor services platforms, focusing on high-performance desktop and responsive mobile environments. You will work through our clients' eyes to design tools that empower users to reach their financial goals.

As a practitioner of user-centered design, you will collaborate with business and technology partners across the enterprise to translate complex financial workflows into best-in-class digital experiences. If you are a collaborative designer who thrives in a diverse group of researchers, visual designers, and content writers, we want you to help us build the future of financial services.

Design Consulting

• Facilitate collaborative design sessions including sketching and ideation.
• Lead design reviews and drive decisions.
• Create design solutions with a multi-faceted team considering all aspects of the advisor experience, from consultative to end client/consumer experience
• Faithfully translate the established patterns and design systems to ensure company goals are met. - Understand great designs are achieved iteratively.
• Visualize ideas in a clear form (sketch, diagram, wireframe or prototype) and provide appropriate level documentation.

Design Management

• Set expectations with the project team and prioritize activities.
• Create and maintain design schedules.
• Communicate status and agreements with project team.
• Review work with UX managers, keep them updated on project status and escalate items appropriately.

Design Expertise and Execution

• Maintain the high standards set by the group.
• Conduct the primary design activities, create deliverables and conduct QA at an expert level.
• Participate and support research efforts.
• Commit to improving our process and methods with an emphasis on both effectiveness and efficiency.

Teamwork, Collaboration and Engagement

• Work well with all partners to deliver work.
• Support UX team members.
• Strategically listen to feedback and help guide the delivery.
• Collaborative and cooperative.
• Has a design position but is not rigidly fixed when presented with new information.
• Passionate about team, our mission and the needs of our partners and users.
• Enthusiastic about UX design. Empathy & Curiosity.
• Understand user needs, walking in their shoes when possible.
• Focus on innovation and improvement.
• Regularly learns more about design theory, practice and tools.

Why your work matters:

• You will support an engaged set of users who rely on our products to manage their financial lives.
• By researching and understanding the user needs you will be able to impact how our users do business with client.
• You will learn how balance functionality against complexity on a highly visible platform which serves millions of advisors and retail customers.
• You will work with an engaged design team that fosters a learning environment. 

Qualifications:
TOP 3 SKILLS: -

• Expertise w/Foundational UX principles.
• Experience executing of High Fidelity Design.
• Documentation/Project Tracking experience (Confluence, Jira).
  

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Cella, a randstad digital company, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Cella by randstad digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.