Staff Ux Designer

Janestreet

New York, United States
On-site
User research and application
Prototyping and sketching solutions
Design craft and user-centered research
You will lead initiatives to help your team understand what people need to do their jobs, and apply user research to help scope what products need to be built to address those needs

Job Summary

  • You will lead initiatives to help your team understand what people need to do their jobs, and apply user research to help scope what products need to be built to address those needs.
  • Demonstrating design craft is critical to the daily work of this role, as you will sketch, storyboard and prototype possible solutions for better experiences.
  • You will offer your insights on UX decisions across your team, advocate for usability testing across other parts of the firm, standardise user research methodologies and further define how our teams can best partner with a design collaborator.

Matching Summary

You will lead initiatives to help your team understand what people need to do their jobs, and apply user research to help scope what products need to be built to address those needs.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • user research and application
  • prototyping and sketching solutions
  • design craft and user-centered research
  • distilling complex routines into design
  • leading design projects across product lifecycle

Nice-to-have

  • sustainable design growth
  • intentional design culture
  • approachable and humble collaborator
  • advocating for usability testing
  • integrating design process

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in UX design
  • Professional portfolio demonstrating mastery of distilling challenges
  • Willing to learn about work and existing processes
  • Fluent in English

Work Rights

Not specified

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