About the position
We are looking for a Staff UX Designer to join Jane Street’s Creative Engagement team, where you’ll shape how people interact with our firm through digital experiences. You will be joining at an inflection point: we are actively expanding our design talent to meet the growing demand across the organization. You will lead user research initiatives to help your team deeply understand our diverse user communities and their needs. You will employ both qualitative and quantitative methods, from creating user personas and journey maps to developing and analyzing surveys and other engagement data, in order to inform design recommendations. Demonstrating design craft is critical to the daily work of this role. In partnership with your team, you will rapidly sketch, storyboard, and prototype possible solutions for better digital experiences. You will drive an iterative design process centered on testing to refine and validate solutions. Through this cyclical process, you will help produce digital experiences that are intuitive and engaging and meet real user needs. You will offer your insights on UX decisions across your team, advocate for usability testing across other parts of the firm, standardize user research methodologies, and further define how our teams can best partner with a design collaborator.
Responsibilities
- Lead user research initiatives to understand diverse user communities and their needs.
- Employ qualitative and quantitative methods to inform design recommendations.
- Rapidly sketch, storyboard, and prototype possible solutions for digital experiences.
- Drive an iterative design process centered on testing to refine and validate solutions.
- Produce digital experiences that are intuitive and engaging.
- Advocate for usability testing across other parts of the firm.
- Standardize user research methodologies.
- Define how teams can best partner with a design collaborator.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in UX design with a professional portfolio.
- Portfolio demonstrates mastery of distilling challenges into feasible solutions.
- Passionate about understanding users and making their lives easier.
- Comfortable working on ambiguous problems and making incremental improvements.
- Capable of leading design projects across a product lifecycle from conception to launch.
- Comfortable sharing ideas and designs early and updating them rapidly.
- Enjoys collaborating with colleagues with different skill sets and levels of experience.
- Approachable, humble, and curious.
Nice-to-haves
- Eager to create a strong design ethos within the firm.
- Willingness to collaborate with colleagues to integrate a design process.
