Designer & UX Researcher

Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Merrimack
Posted on: November 16, 2024

Job Description:

UX Designer - Fidelity Asset Management Fixed Income, FFO, and Trading Services (FIFT)
In this Principal UX Designer role, you will spearhead our design efforts, guiding us through the creation of transformative and intuitive user interfaces in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. You will help establish standards and best practices to create world-class streamlined user experiences that best support our investment professionals and business partners. Your expertise allows us to consider accessibility, interactive design, overall usability, and a responsive frontend architecture, thereby ensuring that our digital products are not only visually appealing but also highly functional and user centric.
Creates innovative solutions for a wide variety of product design challenges, including desktop, hardware interfaces, physical environments, and person-to-person interactions.
Leads the design for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences.
Quickly iterates on multiple interactive design solutions.
Advocates for design solutions, highlighting inputs that influences decisions including business and user goals, demographic and usage data, and research findings.
Develops high level, detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
Assesses and optimizes the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics.
Presents design work to multiple teams and senior leadership for review and feedback.
Creates user experience standards, guidelines, and associated assets to accelerate UI development.
Contributes to the group's shared knowledge of user-centered design and research methodologies.
Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or 8+ years equivalent professional experience
- 8+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role
- Experience with a variety of design and prototyping tools such as Illustrator, Sketch, Hype, Axure, and Keynote
- Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design
- Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs.
- Experience in an Agile/scrum environment

The applications and services provided enable investment decision making, portfolio management, and trading for combined assets under management of approximately $2 trillion. Through our Agile practices, we have developed an operating rhythm that ensures we are consistently delivering the highest value work for our customers and partners.

At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer.
Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process. Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients' money.
You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Fidelity's hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office.
Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document , and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.
We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process.

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