Sr Design Lead at Northern Trust

Posted in General Business 22 days ago.

Type: Full-Time
Location: Chicago, Illinois





Job Description:

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Major Duties :1. Works to improve user experiences with technology and business collaborators

2. Guides design to meet objectives and outcomes, influences business and technology decisions with user needs in mind

3. Contributes to an open culture that enables employees' development through direct but kind feedback, promotes diverse perspectives and fosters a sense of curiosity and optimism

4. Creates user experiences, from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity mockups and prototypes while applying the NT Digital Design System.

5. Provides creative direction and conducts design reviews, balancing design decisions between research, technology, and business unit objectives

6. Solves complex problems and takes new perspectives on existing solutions

7. Exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information

8. Works within broad guidelines and policies

9. May collaborate in an agile environment or ad hoc in emerging experience projects.

10. Guides designers and researchers relative to the current project or digital product

Knowledge :• Ability to put Human-Centered Design and UI/UX best practices to work within a professional setting, as demonstrated in a work portfolio

• Proficiency in a range of relevant design methods and concepts, which may include low-fidelity sketching, information architecture, wireframe development, usability testing, research planning, competitive analysis

• Strong design skills in multiple competency areas (visual, interaction, information architecture, product)

• Able to present work and decisions effectively, through presentation and storytelling skills

• Ability to recognize, predict and incorporate use cases and user interactions into design

• Highly flexible, adaptable to change and comfortable with ambiguity and critique

• Effective use of collaborative/communication tools

• Clear growth mindset, looking for opportunities to learn and motivated to approach challenges proactively

Experience :• 9+ years demonstrated work experience delivering digital experiences

• Educated in design or related field, formally or though comparable training

• Design thinking and UI/UX best practices, as demonstrated in a portfolio of professional work.

• Experience working with a cross-functional team or large-scale software development lifecycle, preferably in an agile environment, is desired

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com .

We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.





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