Director, User Experience Design

Job Description:

The Role

Fidelity Investments is looking for a hands-on User Experience Director who is passionate about their craft and making investing approachable for all audiences. We are redefining the financial services industry by changing the way we work and putting the customer first. It's a fast-paced environment where decisions are data-focused, collaborative, and iterative. The organization deeply values design.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 10-15+ years of UX or related experience is preferred
• A degree in a related field such as interactive design, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, or human factors is preferred
• Provide design and product thought leadership, identifying and developing strategic design opportunities to drive business and product strategy, creating artifacts to align stakeholders and teams to
• Work across and collaborate with product, engineering, UX research, and others to develop and prototype product vision
• Lead definition of the design work and deliver business outcomes across multiple product teams, with minimal guidance and coaching
• Distilling qualitative and quantitative feedback to unearth recurring themes and promote data-driven design decisions
• An array of design skills including service design and strategic design methods. Information architecture, prototyping, user research, and visual design will also be critical
• Effective communication as a writer, presenter, and facilitator; equally at ease speaking with developer partners or executives
• Experience working on agile teams delivering value in digital products preferred
• Experience running and/or using research to support evidence-focused design decisions preferred
• A digital portfolio we can review online is required
• Ability to design across all channels including web, native, and automated
• A foundation of development knowledge, both web and mobile
• Familiarity with the value of design systems, understanding reuse and scale, and knowing when to contribute to make them better
• Partnering with user research to understand the customer problems to tackle
• An unwavering curiosity to ask why
• Design brings you happiness
• Work across the organization to drive consistent associate-facing experiences
• Contribute to the culture of the UXD group
• Coach and mentor junior designers across the group