Senior Digital Product Designer

Senior Digital Product Designer

Immediate need for a talented Senior Digital Product Designer. This is a 06+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in McLean VA (Onsite).

Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with multi-functional teams, including product owners, developers, and stakeholders to understand requirements and user needs.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for web and mobile applications that align with modern industry standards.
• Participate in user research activities, such as usability testing, interviews, and surveys, to gather insights and refine design solutions.
• Contribute and ensure designs are in line with our Design System and industry standard methodologies.
• Stay updated with the latest UX design trends, tools, and techniques relevant to the financial industry.
• Present design concepts and solutions to partners and capture feedback for iterative improvement.
• Own a solution from start to finish – from managing stakeholders, to gaining alignment, to supporting product teams.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Must Have Qualifications: Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, User Testing, Microsoft 365
• 8-10 years of relevant professional experience.
• 5+ years of design or product strategy, visual or interaction design, and experience design.
• Bachelor's degree in UX Design, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Product Design, or equivalent work experience.
• Understand the application and implementation of the Design Thinking methodology.
• Experience in usability testing, ensuring customer feedback is incorporated into future design increments. Experience in ethnographic research is a plus.
• Proficient in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or equivalent. (Figma experience preferred.) Experience working within Agile product teams.
• Portfolio showcasing relevant academic or personal projects.
• Ability to translate user needs into intuitive and functional designs.
• Good interpersonal skills, both written and verbal.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-starter and self-motivated. Ability to work & collaborate effectively in a team environment.

Our client is a leading Financial Services Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions.