Digital Product Designer

Overview

Join a leading organization at the forefront of digital innovation, where your design expertise will directly shape the experiences of millions. We are committed to setting the industry standard for exceptional digital products, driven by strategy, research, design principles, and technical innovation. As a key contributor, you will transform complex ideas into intuitive, engaging, and impactful digital solutions that resonate with users and drive the future of our offerings.

We are seeking a talented designer to join our agile and iterative environment. You will craft digital experiences that define our products, collaborating closely with interdisciplinary teams and stakeholders from concept to implementation. This role suits a natural problem-solver and communicator who thrives on creating designs that inspire, engage, and excite, making a tangible difference in users’ daily lives.

Your work will span the entire design lifecycle, ensuring our digital products are functional, delightful, and accessible. You will:

• Drive design strategy: leverage your understanding of user interface patterns and behaviors to enhance comprehension and optimize task performance.
• Design compelling visualizations and interactions that facilitate analytic thinking, especially with large data sets.
• Facilitate design critiques, assess interactions for inclusivity, and provide expert guidance to cross-functional teams.
• Lead ideation sessions and collaborative design activities.
• Serve as the subject-matter expert for interaction design within the product design team.
• Create impactful artifacts: apply interaction and visual design theories, research insights, and best practices to inform decisions.
• Develop complex low-fidelity sketches, wireframes, and prototypes to explore, communicate, and validate concepts.
• Produce detailed prototypes with precise delivery specifications for development teams.
• Present interaction design work effectively to senior stakeholders.
• Lead research and testing: orchestrate usability testing sessions and participate in critical research activities.
• Conduct competitive audits and research industry interaction design strategies relevant to objectives.
• Perform thorough audits of design patterns, micro-interactions, and components as needed.

You’ll thrive in a supportive culture where designers are valued, included, and heard, surrounded by experts in their fields. This is an opportunity to work on solutions that impact millions and contribute to an organization that values customer experience and maintains leadership in global digital product design.

• Must-have: BA/BS degree in Design (e.g., interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science (CS), or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• A strong portfolio showcasing application design samples.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience designing usable interfaces across various channels and platforms.
• Experience in an applied research setting, including integrating user research findings into product designs.
• Ability to clearly articulate design strategy, rationale, and logic, including benefits and risks of decisions.
• Proven expertise with industry-standard design, prototyping, and research tools.
• Nice to have:
• MA/MS degree or certification in Design, HCI, CS, or related field.
• Understanding of strengths and limitations of different research methods and when to apply them.
• Appreciation for the potential of design thinking.
• Experience in a large organization and in an agile development environment.

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with leading brands. Eligible talent gain access to benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with matching. Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristics.

We’re committed to an inclusive environment where diverse backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

Are you ready to join a distinguished financial institution committed to empowering clients and communities? Our client is a leading provider of banking and financial services, renowned for customer-centric approaches and innovative solutions. Join us in driving meaningful change.