Senior Product & UX Designer

Join our growing team and help solve complex business and software challenges for the world’s top financial services companies.

Remote Full-time

Before we dig into the deets about the role, a bit about our mentality at Nine Labs: We strive to build a great place for smart people to do their best work. Our business and our team are growing, and we’re really excited about it. We believe in a flexible, friendly and creative work environment. If this sounds good to you, keep reading.

Job Overview:

You love solving complex problems and you care deeply about making people’s jobs easier. You’re excited about helping us build a great company and world-class human-centered design team. You ask why… a lot. You love to learn and push the boundaries of what’s possible.

You’re a well-rounded designer who likes getting your hands dirty in the whole design process. You’re a strong visual and interaction designer, but you’re a skilled researcher who loves getting in front of users to stay centered on their needs. You’re a collaborator who seeks out everyone who needs to be at the table. You’re quick to change your design if the data points in another direction.

Though you’re skilled at many things, you are particularly strong in a few areas of the design process and you enjoy sharing these strengths with your team.

Required Skills:

  • Quickly grasp complex problems and generate ideas that lead to functional and elegant user experiences.
  • Create deliverables for the entire design process, including interaction models, workflows, information architecture, interface design, and low and high-fidelity prototypes.
  • Collaborate with design peers and cross functional teams to build concept consensus
  • Clearly articulate and present concepts to the larger product team and other stakeholders.
  • Lead workshops to gather design requirements and prioritize needs.
  • Conduct various forms of research and interact directly with client stakeholders and end users.
  • Extract meaning from mounds of user data, making it easy to consume to move forward in the design process.
  • Present research to stakeholders using visual storytelling techniques.
  • Use research as a launching pad to design workflows, screens, and interactions.
  • Collaborate with other designers and cross-departmentally with product, development, customer success, sales, marketing teams.
  • Implement design system components in your workstream for design consistency and contribute back to the design system.
  • Use rapid ideation and design tools to create prototypes for usability testing.
  • Conduct usability tests for user-centered iterative improvements.
  • Work with the development team on implementation of your designs.

Qualifications:

  • 8+ years relevant experience in UX, product, or interaction design.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to simplify complex concepts.
  • Proficiency in visual design using the following or similar design tools: Sketch/InVision, Figma, Axure, and similar tools.
  • Experience in being responsible for design and user experience for end-to-end workflows. 
  • Ability to define and translate business requirements and user feedback into prototypes with optimal user experiences.
  • Ability to translate flowcharts and wireframes into intuitive, usable, visually polished UI systems.
  • A strong understanding of UI conventions and challenges for responsive web design and other emerging platforms, including UI optimization for best performance and optimal footprint on mobile devices.
  • Ability to produce high quality work quickly, iterating toward the best solutions. 
  • Excellent organizational and efficient time management skills. 
  • High aptitude for making design decisions backed by data.
  • Contributes productively and proactively as part of a team.
  • Demonstrated desire for continuous learning and improvement.
  • Enthusiastic and creative with the ability to inspire others.
  • Maintains professional knowledge and experience.
  • Must be 21 years of age or older.
  • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Job Perks:

  • Competitive Salary
  • Flexible working schedule include remote/work from home
  • Time off when you need it and a flexible vacation policy
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Casual dress code

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