Principal UX Designer

Responsibilities

Kforce has a client in Merrimack, NH that is seeking a Principal UX Designer. Responsibilities:

• Creates innovative solutions for a wide variety of product design challenges, including desktop, hardware interfaces, physical environments, and person-to-person interactions
• Leads the design for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences
• Plans and defines strategy for the direction of future iterations
• Quickly iterates on multiple interactive design solutions
• Advocates for design solutions, highlighting inputs that influences decisions including business and user goals, demographic and usage data, and research findings
• Develops high level, detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
• Delivers work that is not only user-friendly and aesthetically engaging, but that also produces results
• Works alongside engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the production cycle
• Assesses and optimizes the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics
• Develops and maintains detailed user-interface specifications
• Presents design work to multiple teams and senior leadership for review and feedback
• Creates user experience standards, guidelines, and associated assets to accelerate UI development
• Contributes to the group's shared knowledge of user-centered design and research methodologies
  
  

Requirements

• A degree in a related field such as Interactive Design, Architecture, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, or Human Factors is preferred
• 8 years of UX or related design experience in a professional setting
• Asset Management or related Investment Applications Design experience is ideal
• Able to provide design and product thought leadership, identifying and developing strategic design opportunities to drive business and product strategy, creating artifacts to align stakeholders and teams to
• Able to work across and collaborate with investment professionals, product and engineering leads, and others to develop and prototype product vision
• Able to lead definition of the design work and deliver business outcomes across multiple product teams, with minimal guidance and coaching
• Experience distilling qualitative and quantitative feedback to unearth recurring themes and promote data-driven design decisions
  
  

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

By clicking “Apply Today” you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages or emails from Kforce and its affiliates, and service providers. Note that if you choose to communicate with Kforce via text messaging the frequency may vary, and message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You will always have the right to cease communicating via text by using key words such as STOP.