Sr UX Designer

Job Type

Full Time

General Description

A Senior UX Designer with passion for design, an eye for detail and a clean aesthetic style. Make design decisions driven by data while retaining our vision and design. Capable of marry user needs and effective design, consisting of creating visually engaging, innovative, and functional mobile and web products.

Our designers are part of the team who manages the process from beginning to end, from wire-framing, listening labs, interactive prototyping, and final designs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Use UX research practices to analyze and understand customer needs and map them to best practices towards engaging and immersive digital design and experiences.
• Follow a human centered design approach to developing UX, mockups, wireframes, low and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Develop and design graphical elements, style guides and data visualization.
• Understand product development lifecycle to efficiently collaborate with Product and Development teams.
• Support development team hands on to ensure development quality.
• Collaborate with UX Principals and other designers in building a culture of user experience design practices for Popular.
• Practice a continuous learning approach to understand available technologies, user interactions and other industry trends and best practices.
• Effectively communicate design choices and direction to multiple stakeholders by incorporating and articulating design principles which balance the customers' needs. Participate and collaborate in design critique, both of your work and that of other designers.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in UX/Visual Design discipline in Human Computer Interaction, Computer Sciences, Web Development, or related field.

Experience

A combination of 6+ years of user design experience, preferably for a highly trafficked consumer facing digital product such as mobile and web applications. Portfolio highlighting user experience and visual design work with a deep understanding of visual design standards, typography, iconography, and colors.

Certifications / Licenses

Other Qualifications

• Strong business acumen: ability to understand the needs and concerns of business stakeholders and colleagues and respond promptly and effectively to stakeholder requests.  Ability to conduct analysis on work procedures, business results, and recommends changes to improve the effectiveness of the business's management.
• Communication skills: effectively interact with internal and external stakeholders. Ability to foster trusting relationships with colleagues and clients.  Highly develop written and verbal communications skills in English.  Presents numerical data effectively. Superior communication and interpersonal skills.  Excellent report-writing and presentation skills.  Polished in preparing presentations, executive summaries, and business reports in English for executive audiences.
• Analytical skills: Stays focused on main issues, prevents irrelevant issues or distractions from interfering with timely completion of assignments.  Collects, research and complements data; Synthesizes complex or diverse information.  Demonstrates attention to detail; Applies design principles; Generate creative solutions.  Strong quantitative, research and analytical skills.  Experience with data analysis, persuasive and informative writing, workload management, and process management.
• Problem Solving: Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Develops alternative solutions.
• Project Management: Ability to prioritize and work with multiple projects and tasks with minimum supervision; self-direct and task switch between strategic and tactical initiatives regularly. Capacity to achieve results according to plan ensuring the expected quality. Excellent organization capacity to define priorities, meet deadlines, and flexible to change.  Knowledge on project coordination, identification of business needs, work plan, budget control, time management, resource allocation, team management and status reports.  Must demonstrate leadership, logic, and reasoning skills.
• Operational/Regulations Processes: Knowledge on budget administration, resources allocation, organization’s policies, and regulations. Ability to establish, conduct and track operational processes properly.
• Computer and technological skills: experience with current version of Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator and XD; knowledge building prototypes using Adobe Creative Suite, Figma. Advance proficiency in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS (Less, Sass). Proficient in Android Studio and xCode. 

Region Locations

Puerto Rico, Colombia or Florida

Work Schedule

Hybrid

Values

Additional Requirements

The information provided here is only a general guide as to the nature of the position and does not constitute an exact description of the goals, tasks, duties, and responsibilities of the position. The specific details of each position are described in the employee’s objectives within the performance evaluation.