Addepar: User Experience Designer

Posted by | February 6, 2012 | Web Professional Jobs Blog

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Location: Mountain View, CA

URL: http://www.addepar.com

Reinventing the Infrastructure that Powers Global Wealth Management.
Addepar’s technology increases efficiency, transparency, and sophistication within the global investment industry, thwarting fraud and furthering meritocracy in one of the most important areas of the global economy. We empower wealth managers by providing tools that minimize manual processes, streamline work-flows, and visualize complex data. Utilizing our software, advisors gain a deeper insight into their clients’ holdings, resulting in better investment decision making.
The user experience designer is a multi-skilled innovator with strong interaction design skills, user research and usability testing expertise, and an affinity for aesthetics. We are looking for a multi-disciplinary team player who can quickly assimilate our users’ needs and take responsibility for critical design decisions regarding how our users interact with our platform. The user experience designer will have a track record of applying common user-centered design practices and tools to solve tough design problems. Experience designing for complex workflows and large dataset visualization is a must.
Responsibilities:
  • Determine a product’s mandate, feature set, and business requirements
  • Plan and conduct user requirements gathering and analysis, competitive research, conceptual modeling and usability testing
  • Produce user requirements specifications, personas, storyboards, scenarios, prototypes, and design specifications
  • Effectively communicate research findings, conceptual ideas and detailed design rationale both verbally and visually
  • Manage the interaction design process, drive decisions, track issues, and assist in estimating resource needs and schedules
  • Design and specify user interfaces and information architecture via sketches/mocks, wireframes, and visual design documentation that adheres to business and user-defined requirements
Requirements/Qualifications:
  • Expert on user interface standards, and design guidelines.
  • Proven ability to apply the methodologies of interaction design to software development.
  • Ability to understand customer needs, motivations and behaviors and translate them into actionable deliverables
  • Detail-oriented and highly developed organizational skills including the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
  • Self-starter, strong self-management skills as well as ability to work as a contributing member of a multi-discipline team
  • Advanced proficiency with design and prototyping tools
  • Previous experience designing enterprise-level software for the financial space is a plus*

To apply: http://addepar.theresumator.com/apply/kXqEa0/User-Experience-Designer.html

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