Overview
You are a creative super force with a deep understanding of how people functionally interact with machines. You live on the internet and act as an ambassador by making a jungle of information beautiful and approachable. You are passionate about creating great user experiences on everything from the web to mobile devices.
You have experience planning and executing both redesign and new-concept design projects, from start to finish. You look at the world around you, and see opportunities to improve the design and experience of everything. You are frustrated with financial products and know you can build a better customer experience.
Responsibilities
Design the user experience from concept through production for products and features.
Create user flows, information architecture, interaction models, wireframes, and high fidelity prototypes to communicate the design.
Synthesize competitor offerings, customer feedback, site metrics and usability reports into user-centered designs
Lead and run usability testing to determine whether features and products have met business and usability objectives.
Iterate rapidly and work collaboratively with product managers, developers, and designers.
Experience
We are seeking candidates who exhibit a strong desire to work in a startup environment and a record of high achievement. Successful candidates will have:
3-7 years in product development teams working on user experience/interaction design
A strong portfolio of work that demonstrates advanced skills in web and mobile user experience design
Experience working with user-centered design
Skills
Knowledge of how to best design to solve business and user problems through a keen understanding of customer needs
Experience planning and executing both redesign and new-concept design projects, from start to finish
Passion about what you do and an obsession with staying on top of UX / UI trends and tools
Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
A desire to tinker all the time while still getting the day job done
Empathy
Extra attention to detail
Creativity, breadth of interests, and initiative
Ability to learn quickly
Nice to have: Experience in user research and usability testing
Nice to have: Ability to perform qualitative and/or quantitative analyses of user interactions and synthesize findings for management and development teams
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Compensation
• Competitive compensation, stock options, health care, etc.
• New computer setup of your choosing
• Free hot eats and cool treats, gym membership
• Create something that will change the world and the way people treat their money