Senior UX Design Lead - User Experience

The Senior UX Lead is a key driver in creating the next generation of applications our clients use every day. With a deep focus on user needs, you will be developing solutions that work across a variety of different projects to create a cohesive experience across FactSet.

You will partner with product managers, designers, researchers, and engineers to understand our users’ needs and create best-in-class solutions for financial professionals to analyze data and monitor markets.

As part of the UX team, you seek to fully understand user problems, and lead others in developing a shared understanding and alignment of solutions that best fit user needs.

You will have influence over large-scale projects and have a significant impact on a scaling our design system being implemented across mobile, tablet, and desktop.

Within the UX team, you’ll experience a considerate and highly collaborative group of individuals with different backgrounds and perspectives that is supportive, respectful, and prioritizes a healthy work-life balance.

What you can expect day to day

• Lead UX design for assigned business unit, including ground-up designs and enhancements to existing products, developing applications for mobile, tablet, and desktop.
• Collaborate with user research to analyze research and data; gather additional information with user-focused activities such as story mapping, journey mapping, empathy mapping, and others.
• Engage in all aspects of the UX process, using a variety of methodologies, best practices and standards to ensure consistency and usability
• Engage with product teams to ensure we are building the correct solution, addressing user needs, and delivering solutions that focus on outcomes over outputs.
• Collaborate with other UX team members to deliver complete Figma wireframes that are validated, user-centric designs; work with our design system team on new components;

create tests with user research to validate designs.

Drive UX culture across the organization by promoting Design-Thinking, design principles, and managing expectations within product teams;

share insights and strategies to further design influence and consistency across the organization

Understand, design for, and guide teams in accounting for accessibility

Qualifications

• Undergraduate or post-graduate degree in user experience design, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years’ total experience as a UX professional, with at least 2 years in a senior role
• Experience in designing for financial professionals, or comparable users in data-heavy applications
• A portfolio of work demonstrating expertise in UX design, UX thinking, methodologies, and processes
• Strong knowledge of UX principles and practices, including competencies in complex workflows, information architecture, usability, and user interface design, and a steadfast process that includes user research and testing
• Working knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design, software design best practices, and engineering development
• Experience leading and facilitating collaborative UX activities, guiding teams to shared understanding
• Ability to empathize, influence, and drive user-centered design across a collaborative and inclusive global environment

More about FactSet

• We offer flexible working arrangements that respect your time, health, and work style.
• FactSet looks to foster a globally inclusive culture. From leadership commitment, to employee led resource groups, FactSet has diversity, equity, and inclusion as a priority.

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• FactSet believes giving back to our communities is part of our culture. From volunteer opportunities to working with non-profit partners, you can read more about our commitments here :
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