UI/UX Designer /Remote, 16 Months Contract

UX Design Consultant Summary: This is a 100% remote opportunity. Top required skills include design thinking facilitation skills, experience working with researchers, content strategists, and product partners, interaction and visual design skills. Design Consulting: Facilitate collaborative design sessions including sketching and ideation. Lead design reviews and drive decisions. Create design solutions with a multi-faceted team, taking into account how digital, physical, and service channels work together. Design Management: Set expectations with the project team and prioritize activities. Create and maintain design schedules. Communicate status and agreements with project team. Review work with UX managers, keep them updated on project status and escalate items appropriately. Design Expertise and Execution: Maintain the high standards set by the group. Conduct the primary design activities, create deliverables and conduct QA at an expert level. Participate and support research efforts. Teamwork, Collaboration and Engagement: Work well with all partners to deliver work. Support UX team members. Strategically listen to feedback and help guide the delivery. Collaborative and cooperative. Has a design position but is not rigidly fixed when presented with new information. Passionate about team, our mission and the needs of our partners and users. Enthusiastic about UX design. Empathy & Curiosity. Understand user needs, walking in their shoes when possible. Focus on innovation and improvement. Regularly learns more about design theory, practice and tools. Your work matters: You will support an engaged set of users who rely on our products to manage their financial lives. By researching and understanding the user needs you will be able to impact how our users do business with Client. You will learn how balance functionality against complexity on a highly visible platform which serves millions of advisors and retail customers. You will work with an engaged design team that fosters a learning environment. Additional Job Details: You have 8+ years of rich interaction design focused on digital products. 1+ year of interaction design experience for touch-based mobile interfaces is a plus. An online portfolio demonstrating interaction design process and thinking. Experienced with all aspects of a user-centered interaction design process, including user research, developing user flows, creating wireframes, conducting usability tests and creating annotated design specifications. Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team within an iterative process and an Agile development methodology. Strong self-management skills, comfortable with substantial responsibility, working directly with our client partners, and capable of managing your project schedules. Proficient in design tools like Sketch, Omnigraffle, Axure. Experience running design sessions with cross-functional teams. Effective relationship builder--ability to partner cross-functionally, cross-enterprise and work effectively with various levels of the organization as well as various personality types. Comfort in a project-oriented work environment, with a positive attitude and solid work ethic. Suncap Technology