Staff Product Designer - Mobile

September 16

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BECU

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Consumer Banking • Consumer Lending • Business Services • Financial Education and Literacy • Auto Loans

1001 - 5000

Description

• As a Staff Product Designer at BECU, you will play a pivotal role in crafting user-centric solutions that align with our members' financial goals. • Your work will involve close collaboration with engineering and product teams to bring innovative design concepts to life, ensuring a seamless and engaging experience for our members. • By advocating for human empathy and leveraging design thinking, you will be instrumental in shaping the experiences our members and staff interact with daily. • Your expertise will help BECU maintain its commitment to exceptional design standards, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. • Lead User-Centric Research: Conduct research and collaborate with product leaders to discover and prioritize user needs and goals for the BECU Mobile App. • Innovative Problem Solving: Tackle complex design challenges through rapid prototyping and iterative processes, developing creative solutions that address user needs and enhance the overall user experience. • End-to-End Design Ownership: Manage the complete design process for the BECU Mobile App, from ideation to implementation. • Create user journeys, personas, wireframes, prototypes, and other design assets to transform conceptual ideas into practical, user-friendly experiences. • User Research Leadership: Lead user research activities within your product team, providing clear and prioritized recommendations based on research findings to guide design improvements. • Collaborative Design Critique: Participate in design critiques, effectively communicating design goals and incorporating feedback to refine and enhance design outcomes. • Contribute to Design Systems: Identify gaps through user research and contribute innovative design components to BECU's design system, ensuring consistency and excellence across all platforms. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build strong relationships with product and engineering teams to deliver cohesive and meaningful end-to-end solutions that resonate with our members and staff. • Documentation and Communication: Create comprehensive documentation for senior leadership, outlining and prioritizing opportunities to improve user experiences within the BECU Mobile App. • Stay Ahead of Trends: Keep abreast of emerging technologies and new applications by engaging with the broader UX community, staying informed through publications and conferences. • Additional Responsibilities: Take on additional duties as needed to support the design team and contribute to BECU's overall success.

Requirements

• Minimum 7+ years of industry experience in mobile native space, responsible for the end-to-end design process within a collaborative team. • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience. • Working knowledge of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and its effects on the design process. • Portfolio showcasing the complete design process, including cross-channel experiences, with proven results supported by relevant metrics. • Proficiency in interaction design practices for the mobile native space, with documented experience in creating complex design components using the latest industry standards. • Advanced proficiency in Figma and familiarity with current industry best practices. • Basic knowledge of front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks such as React and Bootstrap. • Expertise in using qualitative and quantitative data to inform design decisions. • Experience leading design sprints and design thinking workshops, aligning project goals with workshop outcomes. • Strong storytelling and presentation skills for engaging a wide range of stakeholders. • Commitment to continuous learning, staying updated with industry trends, tools, and communities, and sharing best practices with teams. • Experience using multiple methods of user research to identify opportunities and communicate findings. • Familiarity with the latest WCAG guidelines and demonstrated experience in using these guidelines to inform design decisions and product priorities.

Benefits

• Employees and their eligible family members have access to a wide array of employee benefits, such as medical, dental, vision and life insurance coverage. • Employees have access to disability and AD&D insurance. • We also offer health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts, as well as health savings accounts, to eligible employees. • Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan and employer-funded retirement plan. • Newly hired employees accrue 6.16 hours of paid time off (PTO) on a per pay period basis based on hours worked (up to a maximum of 160 PTO hours per year). • Employees receive ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year.