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The User Experience Sr. Lead Analyst is a senior level principal role, acting as a thought leader in the research, analysis and design of digital products and systems.
User Experience partners with Product and Technology colleagues to create innovative and intuitive digital products that deliver best-in-class user experience and usability to our clients, both internally and externally. We undertake a wide spectrum of activities, from discovery and research, through definition, ideation, and design, to the management of design systems and the delivery of interactive prototypes and high-fidelity designs to our development partners.
The UX Design Group’s primary goal is to research and design products and solutions that are streamlined, intuitive, consistent, accessible, great-looking, and easy-to-use, which perfectly suit (or even anticipate) our clients’ needs.
Responsibilities:
- Lead meetings with users, clients, product sponsors and technology to understand project requirements
- Plan and perform UX research, define IA, user journeys, and create personas
- Identify metrics and data that can support decision-making, guiding tech partners where needed to add necessary metrics
- Work closely with users, stakeholders, business analysts, product managers and development teams to brainstorm and co-create ideas, approaches, and solutions
- Perform relevant testing to validate and inform design decisions
- Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs using specialist tools such as Sketch, InVision, Axure, and the Adobe suite
- Apply a positive and constructive attitude to all feedback
- Use and contribute to the approved design system
- Contribute to design standards and best practices
- Perform detailed handover to development teams, ensuring they have all they need to implement the designs
- Provide ongoing support to development, with regular UX review checkpoints ensuring quality and spec are as designed
- Continuously look for opportunities to improve research and design practices and processes, keeping track of latest trends, standards, and tools in the industry
- Ensure all designs comply with ADA/WCAG standards for accessibility
- Deliver on-time, identifying and managing risks to ensure timelines are met, and escalating where needed
- Help to train, support and develop junior team members, and identify opportunities for colleagues to specialize and grow
- Confidently challenge substandard work by other team members, providing coaching and guidance to resolve
- Build consensus, and find smart solutions when colleagues and stakeholders are in conflict over technical or design
- Provide thought leadership to the wider UX community of practice
- Evangelize the value of UX within the wider organization
- Use your network of contacts (internally and externally) to raise the profile of UX at the firm
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
Qualifications:
- Strong attention to detail & analytical skills
- Significant experience on complex, enterprise-scale design projects
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Excellent skills in professional design tools e.g., Sketch, Figma, AdobeXD, Axure, InVision etc.
- Significant experience using/creating design systems
- Significant aptitude for coaching and mentoring junior designers
- Keen interest in, or knowledge of, banking or finance
- HTML/CSS Development Skills
- Software Development or Program Management Experience
- Participation in external UX groups or communities
Education:
- Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred
- At least one formal UX Qualification
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