Job Description:

UX Designer – Fidelity Asset Management Fixed Income, FFO, and Trading Services (FIFT)

The Role

In this Principal UX Designer role, you will spearhead our design efforts, guiding us through the creation of transformative and intuitive user interfaces in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.  You will help establish standards and best practices to create world-class streamlined user experiences that best support our investment professionals and business partners.  Your expertise allows us to consider accessibility, interactive design, overall usability, and a responsive frontend architecture, thereby ensuring that our digital products are not only visually appealing but also highly functional and user centric.

Creates innovative solutions for a wide variety of product design challenges, including desktop, hardware interfaces, physical environments, and person-to-person interactions. Leads the design for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences. Plans and defines strategy for the direction of future iterations. Quickly iterates on multiple interactive design solutions. Advocates for design solutions, highlighting inputs that influences decisions including business and user goals, demographic and usage data, and research findings. Develops high level, detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas. Delivers work that is not only user-friendly and aesthetically engaging, but that also produces results. Works alongside engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the production cycle. Assesses and optimizes the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics. Develops and maintains detailed user-interface specifications. Presents design work to multiple teams and senior leadership for review and feedback. Creates user experience standards, guidelines, and associated assets to accelerate UI development. Contributes to the group’s shared knowledge of user-centered design and research methodologies. The Expertise and Skills You Bring Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or 8+ years equivalent professional experience Master’s in Human Factors, HCDE, or Cognitive Psychology a plus 8+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role Experience with a variety of design and prototyping tools such as Illustrator, Sketch, Hype, Axure, and Keynote Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design Strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs. Experience in an Agile/scrum environment The Team

The FIFT organization crafts all the technology systems used in Fixed Income for the Bond and Money Market Product areas. FIFT also handles common trading services as well as the systems used for Finance and Fund Oversight. The applications and services provided enable investment decision making, portfolio management, and trading for combined assets under management of approximately $2 trillion. Through our Agile practices, we have developed an operating rhythm that ensures we are consistently delivering the highest value work for our customers and partners.

Company Overview

At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want!  We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com.  Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process. Please email us at accommodations@fmr.com or call 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 2 if you would like to request an accommodation

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