Senior UI Designer

Senior UI Designer

Overview

We want to guide them at each important financial step in their lives so they can go forward with stability and confidence. We are a growing team of designers and researchers who bring an entrepreneurial spirit to a leading global financial firm. By infusing design thinking methods throughout our process, we solve real business problems by putting clients at the center of our products.

As a senior UI designer, you will report to the design system manager and contribute to a centralized design system, collaborating extensively with designers, engineers, and product owners. You should have comparable experience contributing to a design system and its ongoing evolution based on usage, project needs and client feedback.

Once here you will

• Maintain and promote the Morgan Stanley Online design system
• Create documentation for design and development teams (UI design guidelines, best practices, and standards)
• Promote inclusive design, designing for equity and accessibility
• Conduct comprehensive accessibility reviews and testing to ensure WCAG 2.0 Level AA compliance
• Partner closely with UX designers to ensure design consistency across the platform
• Contribute to UI solutions from concept to final hand-off to engineering
• Articulate design recommendations to product stakeholders
• Form strong partnerships with engineering teams to create frictionless design implementation
• Maintain processes tools for UX/engineering team to utilize our design system
• Deliver responsive designs that work across platforms such as mobile, tablet and notebook

Relevant experience and mindset

• An outstanding portfolio that demonstrates how you have created UI solutions that solved business and user needs
• 3 years’ experience as a UI designer as a key contributor to the success of products that have launched
• Fluency in Sketch and Invision
• You thrive in a collaborative, explorative environment and value being on a diverse team
• You practice active listening and contribute in group situations (i.e. brainstorms, audits, critiques, whiteboard sessions, etc.)
• You have a high tolerance for complex projects with lots of ambiguity and you are resilient in the face of obstacles
• You have a relentless desire to validate assumptions and uncover a problems’ root cause by testing, learning, and iterating
• You constantly seek opportunities to evangelize and promote design thinking in a large organization

Skills

Best Practices, Communication Skills, Customer/Client Research, Documentation, Entrepreneurship, Global Financial Markets, Multiplatform/Cross-Platform, Problem Solving Skills, Product Design, Product/Service Launch, Resolve Customer Issues, Systems Administration/Management, Team Player, Technical/Engineering Design, Testing, User Experience Design (UXD), User Interface Design, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

About the Company

Jose Merciline