Sr. UX Designer

SS&C Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SS&C Technologies is seeking a Senior UX Designer to enhance user experiences within the financial services sector. This fully remote position entails creating user-centered designs, conceptualizing ideas, and mentoring junior team members while ensuring high-quality design execution.

Benefits

401k Matching Program

Professional Development Reimbursement

Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off

Medical, Dental, Vision

Employee Assistance Program

Parental Leave

Discounts on fitness clubs and travel

Qualifications

• Advanced experience with human-centered design theory and visual design skills.
• Experience estimating design efforts and managing multiple projects.
• Proven ability to lead and communicate conceptual ideas.

Responsibilities

• Execute visual design stages from concept to final hand-off.
• Facilitate design thinking sessions and mentor other designers.
• Translate concepts into personas, user flows, and interactive prototypes.

Skills

User-Centered Design

Visual Design

Interaction Design

Empathy

Communication

Job description

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Job Title: Sr. UX Designer
Location: 100% Remote

Get To Know The Team:

SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
• Your Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do:

We are seeking a Senior User Experience and User Interface Designer for the financial services industries. In this role, you will envision the new and improved user experiences for existing products and new solutions. This requires advanced experience with interaction design principles, standards, concepts, human-centered design theory, and visual design skills utilizing current design trends.

Responsibilities

• Execute all visual design stages from concept to hand-off to engineering to refinement.
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and a seamless user experience to complex designs.
• Execute strategic design and information architecture decisions, applying strong empathy for users and the ability to simplify complex requirements into an intuitive UI.
• Translate concepts and requirements into personas, journey maps, storyboards, user flows, interactive prototypes, and user stories that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Mentor other designers and foster a collaborative environment with constructive feedback to produce the best designs.
• Facilitate the product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for the product.
• Take a user-centered design approach, applying strong visual design skills, and rapidly test and iterate.
• Assist with the development and implementation of designs by collaborating hand-in-hand with developers to ensure designed experiences are realized.
• Facilitate design thinking sessions both internally and client facing as needed.
• Act as an advocate for user-centered design to ensure well-designed products, with features and interfaces that allow users to accomplish their tasks easily and efficiently.
• Self-motivated, proven ability to act as a leader in communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale, and the ability to balance great design while meeting short deadline
• Experience estimating design efforts and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Executive presence - outstanding communication, design thought leadership, presentation and storytelling skills.

What You Will Bring:

We are seeking a Senior User Experience and User Interface Designer for the financial services industries. In this role, you will envision the new and improved user experiences for existing products and new solutions. This requires advanced experience with interaction design principles, standards, concepts, human-centered design theory, and visual design skills utilizing current design trends.

Responsibilities

• Execute all visual design stages from concept to hand-off to engineering to refinement.
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and a seamless user experience to complex designs.
• Execute strategic design and information architecture decisions, applying strong empathy for users and the ability to simplify complex requirements into an intuitive UI.
• Translate concepts and requirements into personas, journey maps, storyboards, user flows, interactive prototypes, and user stories that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Mentor other designers and foster a collaborative environment with constructive feedback to produce the best designs.
• Facilitate the product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for the product.
• Take a user-centered design approach, applying strong visual design skills, and rapidly test and iterate.
• Assist with the development and implementation of designs by collaborating hand-in-hand with developers to ensure designed experiences are realized.
• Facilitate design thinking sessions both internally and client facing as needed.
• Act as an advocate for user-centered design to ensure well-designed products, with features and interfaces that allow users to accomplish their tasks easily and efficiently.
• Self-motivated, proven ability to act as a leader in communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale, and the ability to balance great design while meeting short deadline
• Experience estimating design efforts and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Executive presence - outstanding communication, design thought leadership, presentation and storytelling skills.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! To further explore this opportunity, please apply through our careers page on the corporate website at www.ssctech.com/careers.

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Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.