Front End UI Engineer

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in‑class payment technology and software solutions.

Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Creates and defines seamless, consistent and desirable experiences for Global Payments products and services through the application of user‑centered design principles including qualitative and quantitative user research and analysis and visual and/or interaction design. The UX Designer/Architect helps define an in‑depth understanding of the context in which our customers interact with our products and services. The UX Designer/Architect applies customer needs, motivations, tasks and goals to the design of highly engaging experiences for multiple devices, delivery channels and at times, non‑digital touchpoints.

The UX Designer/Architect acts as an user advocate to project teams and collaborates well with all stakeholders in the development of the experience.

• Assists with the definition of UX Strategy by providing an understanding of vision and business strategy alignment, to ensure all stakeholders understand the user and the experience they desire. The UX Strategy could include competitive landscape, user analytics, customer data, behavioral segmentation, personas, high level scenarios, interaction model, journey map, content strategy, ecosystem considerations, social, mobile, local/cultural considerations, product roadmap, and feature set prioritization.
• Performs appropriate research method needed which could include usability testing, complex audience and task analysis, development of personas, heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthroughs, field observations, interviews, card sorting, and focus groups. Performs the research, analyzes the results, and creates actionable and detailed recommendations based on the user research to ensure users needs have been identified and communicated to project team.
• Defines the patterns, navigation, structure and hierarchy by creating user stories and scenarios, complex process flows, mind maps and affinity diagrams, journey mapping and ecosystem diagrams while identifying opportunities and challenges to ensure the users' needs are met when they interact with our product and services.
• Creates the design of the user experience through facilitating participatory design sessions, design evaluations, brainstorming sessions, creating low fidelity wireframes, high fidelity prototypes, simulations, story boards, visual design, developing user design patterns and style guides to communicate and gain feedback from the users and stakeholders. Ensures design is in line with accessibility guidelines to ensure compliance.

• Bachelor's Degree
• Relevant Experience or Degree in:
  Interaction Design, Human Factors, or Related Field, and/or combination of relevant training and/or experience in lieu of degree
• Typically Minimum 4 Years Relevant Exp
• Researching and designing user experience solutions independently

• Psychology, Interaction Design, Human Computer Interaction, Product Design, Graphic/Visual Design, Human Factors, Library Science, English, Information Technology or related field
• Typically Minimum 4 Years Relevant Exp
• Researching and designing user experience solutions independently within the Financial Industry
• CUA

• Skills / Knowledge - A seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of area of specialization; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways. This job is the fully qualified, career‑oriented, journey‑level position.
• Job Complexity - Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of…