User Experience Designer

Akkodis is seeking a UX Designer for a contract position with a client that will be 100% remote.

Contract duration: 18 months

Hourly Pay Rate: $60/hr w2

SKILLSET EXPECTATIONS • SALESFORCE (salesforce lighting) • Figma or fig jam • Interaction Design delivery focus • Work closely with Design lead, Content Strategy lead, Client Experience Lead, Product owners and technology teams.

Why 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 Schwab. • 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. What you have: • 3-5 years interaction design focused on digital products. • 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. • Capable of creating and managing your design project schedules. • Experience participating in and leading design thinking 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. • Comfortable in a project-oriented work environment, with a positive attitude and solid work ethic.

Our Opportunity: User Experience and Design is responsible for software design across mobile, web and desktop platforms. We are a multi-disciplinary group of user experience designers, visual designers, prototypes and researchers. We work with strategic business and technology partners across the enterprise to build best-in-class software experiences for our users. Our business is driven by looking through our clients’ eyes, which makes it a great place to practice user-centered design. Our purpose is designing tools and experiences that enable users to achieve their financial goals.

The team is responsible for: Design Consulting • Facilitate collaborative design sessions including sketching and ideation. • Lead design reviews and drive decisions. • Effectively “sell” design solutions to partners through design storytelling and by demonstrating traceability in the design thinking. • Represent the design team brand and deliver a consistent design process to partners. • Understand great designs are achieved iteratively. • Visualize ideas in a clear form (sketch, diagram, wireframe or prototype) and provide appropriate level documentation. 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. • Commit to improving our process and methods with an emphasis on both effectiveness and efficiency. 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.

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Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short-term disability insurance, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits and 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs which are direct hire to a client

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