Principal UX Designer

Description: Onsite Our client seeks a Principal UX Designer to lead design for FinTech products that support investment decision making, portfolio management, and trading. You will define and evolve user experience standards, partner with product and engineering, and deliver data-dense, accessible interfaces for financial professionals. The role emphasizes scalable design systems, rapid prototyping, and evidence-based iteration across complex, real-time financial workflows. Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance. Rate: $70.00 to $82.00/hr. w2 Responsibilities: Create innovative solutions across desktop, hardware interfaces, physical environments, and person-to-person interactions. Lead net-new experiences and iterative improvements to existing workflows. Plan and define strategy for future product iterations and design roadmaps. Rapidly prototype and iterate on interactive design solutions. Advocate for design decisions using business goals, user goals, data, and research findings. Develop storyboards, mockups, and prototypes to communicate interaction and design intent. Deliver user-friendly, visually coherent, and outcome-focused experiences. Partner with engineers and product managers through the full production lifecycle. Assess and optimize features using user research and performance metrics. Maintain detailed UI specifications and contribute to shared UX standards and assets. Present design work to cross-functional teams and senior leadership. Establish and evolve UX guidelines and assets to accelerate UI development. Contribute to user-centered design and research methodologies across the group. Support and influence discussions around the design system and component reuse. Design dense, high-signal financial interfaces that prioritize data over decoration. Experience Requirements: 8+ years of UX or related professional design experience. Financial UX or asset management application design experience. Experience delivering product value on agile teams. Ability to lead definition of design work and deliver outcomes across multiple product teams. Strength in service design, strategic design, information architecture, prototyping, user research, and visual design. Effective communication, presentation, and storytelling with technical and business partners. Ability to distill qualitative and quantitative feedback into data-informed design decisions. Familiarity with design systems, including scale, reuse, and contribution practices. Portfolio available for review. Figma proficiency. Nice to have: familiarity with CSS, HTML, Angular, and TypeScript. Education Requirements: A degree in a related field such as interactive design, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, or human factors is preferred. Recruitment Transparency Notice Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team ( , ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. 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