UI Designer

Job Description

This role is responsible for: 

Working closely with Product Owners, Developers, and other Designers to define and design the next-generation platform. They’ll be experienced in UX and UI design, usability, motion design and design systems. In addition, a good understanding of the UX design process.

Responsibilities

• Work with product teams to understand user needs and identify key journeys. These are likely to follow a ‘Design Sprint’ pattern
• Define and design industry leading UIs for products
• Design easy-to-understand end-to-end flows and use tools such as Figma to demonstrate how a particular flow or interaction will work
• Demonstrate a deep interest in our users, what drives and motivates them and develop an understanding of their needs
• Ensure consistency, re-use and brand alignment
• Present ideas and supporting strategies to other teams or senior management

Qualifications

Knowledge/Experience

• Demonstrable experience designing complex UIs as part of a cross functional team
• Visual design experience with proficiency in typography, UI, colour, layout, iconography, and aesthetic sense
• Experience with design systems
• Experience in strategic product thinking with the ability to understand product goals, identify opportunities, and make decisions based on the impact to people and the company
• Experience in user research and a desire to talk to end users is not 100% required but would be a plus
• Experience in institutional credit markets, market data and post-trade services, and credit instruments such as corporate bonds and other types of fixed income products is not 100% required but would be a plus

Skills/Personal Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a user experience designer, visual designer, interaction designer or similar role
• Interaction design experience with ability to define how an experience should behave based on understanding people's needs
• Experienced in Figma, other prototyping or animation tools, a bonus
• Organized and able to manage complex design structures and design systems
• A flare for fresh, modern UI design (in complex, desktop-based systems)
• Able to articulate goals and objectives clearly and succinctly

Languages

• English 

About the Company

Vistrada is a business, technology and management services organization focused on helping clients plan, design, implement and manage highly successful initiatives.