UX/UI II Designer

Summary:

The UX/UI Designer II will be responsible for the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design of our various digital assets. This position will ensure that all elements of the user experience are optimized for improved usability, and usefulness. You must have a passion for delivering adaptive and creative solutions to UI/UX design problems by staying up to date with best practices and emerging trends in user experience, user interface, and design. You’ll collaborate with other designers, product owners, engineering, marketing and stakeholders.

Essential Job Functions:

• Help establish the user experience and user interface for websites, mobile devices, apps and wearables.

• Partner with design team to create user-centric journeys, experiences, screens and components.

• Work with design team to develop, maintain, and organize assets.

• Work within brand guidelines to create layouts that reinforce a brand’s style or voice through its visual touchpoints.

• Understand performance data (metric tests, usability studies), and steer the direction of future experiences and UI components.

• Closely collaborate with designers, developers, product owners, copywriters and stakeholders to solve complex visual design problems.

• Collaborate to define new processes that drive efficiency within the design and product organization.

• Work closely with developers to build best in class experiences and hand off assets for development.

• Maintain regular and punctual attendance.

Other Related Duties:

Performs other related duties as assigned. 

Supervisory Responsibilities:  

This position is an individual contributor with no direct reports but may provide guidance, leadership or training to others.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Design thinking, service thinking, and product strategy a plus.

• Excellent visual, written and verbal communication skills, along with presentation and negotiation skills.

• Knowledge of working with Sketch, figma, InVision, usertesting.com, jira and confluence.

• Solid understanding of different digital ecosystems, web, mobile, and wearables.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• A penchant for details and organization, including the ability to prioritize tasks, communicate progress and meet deadlines.

• The ability to effectively take direction and work both collaboratively and autonomously.

Education and/or Experience:

• BA in design, graphics, photography, HCI and related degrees, preferred.

• Two (2) to four (4) years related work experience.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: 

Portfolio showcasing your work.

Work Complexity:

Problems and issues faced are general, and may require understanding of broader set of issues but typically are not complex. May require familiarity with the financial/mortgage (or job-specific) industry. Problems require understanding of other job areas.  Problems are typically solved through drawing from prior experiences, with analysis of the issue.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Work is normally performed in a typical interior office work environment which does not subject the employee to any hazardous or unpleasant elements. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Freedom Mortgage is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Americans with Disabilities Act:

Applicants as well as employees who are or become disabled must be able to satisfactorily perform the essential job functions of the position either with or without reasonable accommodation. Applicants as well as employees are encouraged to meet with Human Resources as the organization shall review reasonable accommodations on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable law.

Job Responsibilities:

The statements reflect the general duties and responsibilities considered necessary to perform the essential functions of the job and should not be considered as an all-inclusive list of all the work requirements of the position. Freedom Mortgage Corporation may change the specific job duties with or without prior notice based on the needs of the organization.