UX/UI Design Consultant - FINTECH - Contractor (6 weeks project)

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Manila, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

Our designers work closely with clients to solve complex product design challenges. Our UX Design Practice focuses on understanding and optimizing traders’ workflows to deliver beautifully crafted, transformative desktop experiences. We are seeing a contractor to join a project with our New York team. This position is flexible to be remote as well. 

ABOUT THE PROJECT:

• This is a 6-week project
• Rate up to $120/hour depending on experience
• In NYC - some in-person time will be required 
• Project with a major global bank. You’ll be helping create a tightly scoped vision to improve an existing platform

YOU ARE: 

• A great team player 
• A great communicator
• Comfortable with working remote, contributing to a distributed  team

YOU HAVE: 

• Strong experience designing capital markets products/applications
• Experience consulting and engaging with stakeholders
• Understanding of electronic trading and financial markets
• Knowledge of using and maintaining design systems
• Ability to quickly design and prototyping using Figma
• Understand the value of a workflow-driven design process

YOU WILL: 

• Understand the client's vision and strategic design goals.
• Deliver high quality visual design artifacts using Figma. 
• Collaborate and communicate designs to client stakeholders and development teams.
• Solve complex design challenges based on industry expertise and best practices.
• Understand, extract and analyze requirements and business workflows.
• Transform workflows into beautifully crafted high-fidelity figma prototypes. 
• Utilize, adapt and maintain design systems according to the clients branding.
• Iterate on designs, and present several concepts, based on client feedback.
• Work in a fast paced environment, while delivering polished high quality designs.
• Work closely with Adaptive’s Experience Design team for feedback and support.

WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF US

You can check our Glassdoor page  

THE PROCESS

Long interview processes are stressful and boring and that is not us 🙂
We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

So here you will have 3 stage interviews. 
1. Interview with one of our great recruiter 
2. A technical video chat with one or two of our UX developer 
3. An informal chat with our local Director 

But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter. 

A little tip for you during those stages:
Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc  

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION:
Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity. 

All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles.

E-Verify :
Adaptive Financial Consulting Inc. makes use of E-Verify to validate someone's right to work in the US. We will provide the Social Security Administration, and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security, with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Please note that we do not use this information to pre-screen job applicants.” 

Background check: the engagement is subject to an acceptable background check that will be run by Adaptive