Senior UX Designer

Are you ready to build the future of our company?

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About Mercury Financial

Mercury Financial is an innovative and growing financial services company with locations in both Austin, TX and Wilmington, DE.

Our mission is to help customers build and maintain their financial future by offering them credit cards they can afford and understand.

After only a few years, we’ve had great success building a significant credit card program, but we are aiming higher, which means we have lots of challenging problems for you to help us solve.

Come onboard, work with some of the most talented individuals who thrive on collaboration and teamwork, and help us continue to build something special.

Location

Mercury Financial is headquartered in the progressive and entrepreneurial tech hub of Austin, Texas. Our physical location is situated in a beautiful park like setting called the Domain.

The Domain's ideal location and exceptional amenities, amazing restaurant selection, convenient parking are all perfect for after work happy hours!

What it’s like to work here :

We foster a collaborative and innovative culture where you will be empowered to do your best work. All of our employees bring everything they have to their job and are part of a larger team working towards a greater goal.

We do right by our employees, our partners, and our customers.

Job Responsibilities

• Utilize consumer research, including interviews, surveys, and usability tests, to develop intuitive, user-focused designs for Mercury Financial’s mobile app and website.
• Create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups for new features and product improvements.
• Work closely with product managers, developers, and marketing teams to ensure design alignment with business goals and technical feasibility.
• Develop detailed user flows and journey maps to visualize the end-to-end customer experience.
• Develop and maintain design systems to ensure consistency of the user experience across mobile, web, and other digital platforms.
• Design secure UX patterns for sensitive interactions, such as login, payments, and account management, to build customer trust.
• Work closely with developers to ensure designs are optimized for speed and performance on both mobile and web platforms.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of UX designer or interaction designer experience
• Have an online portfolio or samples of work on resume, demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns, across desktop and mobile devices
• Experience working with stakeholders to plan and execute programs that are strategic in nature
• Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
• Experience designing responsive web or native mobile applications
• Experience with a variety of design tools such as Sketch and Figma
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience in working within Design Language System (DLS), creating and managing reusable components and design patterns
• Strong understanding of design principles, including visual hierarchy, color theory, typography, and interaction design
• Ability to lead and ideate products from scratch and improve features with a user-centered design process
• Master's degree in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, or related field

Why you’ll like working here :

This isn’t a place where you will fill a seat and keep your head down. This is a place where everybody is expected to help build something.

This is a place where you can be involved and lead in your areas of expertise. So, how much do you believe in yourself? If you believe in your skills, in your drive and determination, we’ll give you the resources and room to show the world what you can do.

Here are just a few of the benefits we offer :

• Employer insurance coverage for employee & dependents
• Life insurance
• 401K with generous employer match
• Wellness program
• Monthly Company Events

Mercury Financial is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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