Senior UI Designer in Chicago, IL
This position is for a Senior User Interface Designer (UI Designer). As a member of the HSBC User Experience (HUE) team, you will use research and design skills to discover, understand, promote and visually communicate the goals of the end user while balancing the needs of the business and brand. You will participate in many aspects of feature design, including: gathering and communicating design data via task flow analysis and user scenarios; and proposing new user interaction design to meet business requirements for the best possible user experience. The Senior UI Designer will partner with User Researchers and Web Production Engineers and will ultimately deliver and communicate the results to business stakeholders. Schedule and manage the entire visual design throughout the project lifecycle and oversee any UI Designer assigned to the project. You will hold a larger role in evangelizing and marketing the UI team’s services.
Create site architecture documentation including interaction models, site navigation, information structuring, labeling, and searching systems and translate into visual experiences to offer insights on technological impacts. Provide design direction and act as a leader to UI Designers. Create, design and deliver effective, intuitive and pleasing user interface design mock-ups with one or more diagramming and design tools including Visio, Adobe Photoshop, or equivalent programs. Maintain an awareness of current trends in technology, design, eBusiness, marketing and financial services to identify opportunities to enhance the experience design of interactive products and services. Multi-task, manage and act as creative lead on larger, more complex projects including taking ownership of creative scheduling, deadlines, deliverables, quality control and art direction.
Foster a collaborative creative environment by sharing critiques and participating in project and team brainstorming sessions. Observe, understand, and translate research (field observation, contextual interviewing, task analysis, usability testing, competitive analyses, industry trends, social trends, and stakeholder interviewers) to uncover customer and business needs and define visual context of project. Understand what users of web-based products need and want to do in the context of those products. Design interfaces for those products that best serve the users’ needs while balancing the needs and expectations of the business.
Communicate with and offer refinements to the business requirements if out of synch with research of user needs. Create material for user testing (paper prototypes, electronic click-through prototypes, live system testing, etc.) Evaluate and translate research findings into actionable insights and user interface improvements. Adhere strictly to compliance and operational risk controls in accordance with HSBC and regulatory standards, policies and practices; report control weaknesses, compliance breaches and operational loss events. Complete other related duties as assigned. Experience:
HSBC Compensation
HSBC is a pay for performance company with policies and programs designed to ensure all employees receive fair and equitable compensation based on performance. Our compensation program is designed to attract, motivate, develop and retain the very best people.
HSBC Benefits
We are proud of our comprehensive flexible benefit program. Our program allows our employees to select the features that make the most sense for their individual and/or dependent(s) needs. Our benefit features include, but are not limited to; medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, retirement plans, stock option purchase plan, and a competitive time off program.