Senior UX Designer

San Francisco is the headquarters of the Twelfth Federal Reserve District, which includes the nine western states—Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington—plus American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

The Information Technology Services department has an immediate opening for a Senior UX Designer. This position will create mutual understanding between the business owners of a software platform and the end users. User experience design ultimately boils down to the task of translating requirements into interactive solutions. This is an interdisciplinary field that incorporates research, design, psychology, and knowledge of human computer interaction (HCI). UX designers create user-centric interfaces that are not only intuitive to navigate but also solve complex interactions with simplicity and ease. Ideal candidates should be interested in users and learning everything about their behaviors, attitudes, and emotions to inform and guide design. Design need to be based on data, and that data needs to be based on research that is provided by UX Analysts and the designer themselves. This position will be responsible for creative vision, user experience, visual communication, and asset production, including fully functioning sites and interfaces. Our designers are expected to be versatile and multi-faceted, as well as possess a solid understanding of web technologies and related tools. Ideal candidates should also enjoy creatively solving complex problems and generating high-quality, end-to-end online user experiences, assisting developers in accurately rendering designs to support end users.

- Collaborate with other designers, user researchers, project managers, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to prioritize UX activities throughout the software development life-cycle and deliver high-quality experiences on time - Works with engineers to understand and incorporate technical, business, and user requirements into designs - Provide UI development support to development teams in both Agile and waterfall projects for responsive interfaces and presentation layer development support - Assess data from multiple sources, synthesize it, and develop strategies for projects and prototypes for business users and stakeholders - Understand and work within project parameters: client goals and requirements, internal goals, usability, technical constraints, as well as within budget and schedule - Support all aspects of design and production, focusing specifically on UI design - Provide guidance on software accessibility concepts and constraints - Create innovative and appealing designs on a rapid and iterative basis, through sketches, storyboards, user task flows, wireframes, prototypes, and the production of final assets for specific features and projects - Facilitate project teams through the design process, gathering actionable feedback and iterating the appropriate level of changes. - Be a user advocate and lead UX discussions with the business partners on topics including visual design, interaction design, information architecture, and user research - Cultivate an understanding of industry trends and share your insights with the whole team - Drive design thinking and champion the UX vision across the organization

- 5+ years of prototyping experience and deep knowledge of designer tools such as Adobe Creative Suite - Solid understanding in graphic design basics (layout, color, typography) - Comprehensive understanding of research methods and human psychology - Highly creative, big picture oriented, and passionate about UX and design - Demonstrated expertise in web technologies such as HTML5, dynamic CSS, JavaScript libraries, with experience with SharePoint or .Net helpful - Demonstrated experience in designing usable graphical interfaces with complex data - Possess a critical eye for attention, strong sense of design quality, and perfection - Experience designing and developing for mobile strongly preferred - Capable of rendering high-fidelity layouts and icons - Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to build good working relationships and work alongside technical, design, and business teams - Familiarity with both Mac and PC - Motion graphics skills to prototype interactions and animations a plus along with sketching/drawing skills - Occasional overnight travel may be required **Education** - Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communications, or related field –or- 5+ years relevant work experience in lieu of degree