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 User Experience and Design team. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting software designs across our advisor services platforms, focusing primarily on high-performance desktop and responsive mobile environments. You will work within a collaborative group of designers, content writers, and researchers to transform complex financial needs into intuitive, best-in-class software experiences.
Operating at the intersection of business strategy and technology, you will partner with stakeholders across the enterprise to practice true user-centered design. Our business is driven by looking through our clients’ eyes, and your purpose will be to design the tools and experiences that empower our users to achieve their financial goals. If you are passionate about solving intricate design challenges within a strategic, client-focused framework, we want you to help us build the future of financial services.
This role is local to Austin, TX; it will begin as a remote position and move to a hybrid schedule (4 days onsite).
The team is responsible for:
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.
JOBID: 042026-130538
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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.
