User Experience (UX) Designer -Austin -TX (Initial Remote)

Stellent IT LLC; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Schwab is seeking a User Experience Designer to join our Austin team. This role spans advisor services platforms, with desktop and responsive mobile experiences, and emphasizes practical, user-centered design that helps clients achieve their financial goals.

You will collaborate with UX designers, visual designers, researchers and business partners to facilitate design sessions, lead reviews and translate patterns into deliverables.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of core UX principles and user-centered design.
• Experience delivering high-fidelity UI designs.
• Proficient in project tracking and documentation using Confluence and Jira.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate design sessions, sketching and ideation.
• Lead design reviews and drive decisions.
• Translate patterns and design systems into deliverables.
• Create visualizations and prototypes with appropriate documentation.
• Set project expectations and maintain design schedules.
• Communicate status and align with UX managers.
• QA design work and participate in research.
• Collaborate with partners and support UX teammates.

Skills

Foundational UX principles

High fidelity design

Documentation & project tracking

Tools

Confluence

Jira

Job description

User Experience (UX) Designer

Austin -TX (Initial Remote)

12 + Months

Virtual Interview

Job Description:

Prefers candidates LOCAL to Austin, TX
Candidate may need to work remote at first until a seat opens up at the Austin location.

TOP 3 SKILLS:

• Expertise w/Foundational UX principles


• Experience executing of High Fidelity Design


• Documentation/Project Tracking experience (Confluence, Jira)

Our Opportunity:

User Experience and Design is responsible for software design across advisor services platforms, which is primarily desktop and responsive mobile. We are a multi-disciplinary group of user experience designers, visual designers, content writers and researchers. We work with strategic business and technology partners across the enterprise to build best-in-class software experiences for our users. Our business is driven by looking through our clients' eyes, which makes it a great place to practice user-centered design. Our purpose is designing tools and experiences that enable users to achieve their financial goals. 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 escalated 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.

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 Schwab.

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