Sr. UX Designer

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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