About the role
We are looking for an experienced UI/UX designer that has a passion for Fintech. In this role, you will be leading the UI/UX development effort at Vested to create multiple cross border financial products. You will be working directly with one of the co-founders that leads product development.
Location
Remote (based in US or India)
What you will do
- You will work closely with our product team to guide design decisions for our products, quickly creating initial wireframes/prototypes and iterating upon them with design principles in mind, and eventually translating them into high quality final designs
- Communicate with product and management teams to determine design objectives and research priorities that directly influence the product and roadmap
- Partner closely with product, business development, and customer success teams to understand our users and their needs
- Partner closely with engineering to understand technical constraints and possibilities, as well as identify room for design improvement
- Drive UX thinking in all aspects of product and contribute to continuous improvements in UI/UX processes
- Independently conduct formal and informal user research and ensure that user feedback is useful and leveraging data and feedback to validate or revise designs
- Manage regular heuristic evaluations of the product
- You will take lead the charge on UX mindfulness to ensure evaluations result in continuously improving experiences
- Passionately advocate on behalf of the end user
Prior experience
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in a relevant field.
- 4+ years of interactive design, user research and UX design experience in a production software engineering environment, ideally in fintech.
- 2+ years managing and mentoring design team members.
- Experience scoping, planning, and leading end-to-end UI/UX activities from initial requirements to concept, interaction design, development, and post launch.
- Experience conducting formal and informal user studies/research to understand our users.