Digital Product Designer

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading financial institution, partnering with Aquent to drive innovation and elevate digital experiences for millions of users. As a Digital Product Designer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our digital offerings, directly impacting how customers interact with essential financial services every day. Your creativity and expertise will transform complex concepts into intuitive, engaging, and visually stunning solutions that inspire and delight.

Join a forward-thinking financial institution dedicated to becoming a leader in exceptional digital experiences. We are placing strategy, research, design principles, and technical innovation at the core of everything we do. We are seeking exceptional digital professionals to bring our vision to life and make a tangible difference in the lives of our customers.

**The Opportunity**

We are seeking a talented Digital Product Designer to weave iconography, typography, color, space, and texture into seamless digital experiences. You will simplify and enhance how customers navigate our products and services, creating designs that inspire, engage, and excite. This role offers the chance to work on solutions used by millions, contributing to a company that truly values customer experience and remains a global digital leader. You’ll be part of a team pushing the boundaries of digital product design, striving to improve the lives of the people and communities we serve.

**What You Will Do**

* **Visual Design Strategy:**
* Understand visual-spatial displays to improve user comprehension and task performance.
* Create visual components with a broad context in mind, ensuring efficiency and consistency across multiple situations.
* Utilize dynamic visualizations to support analytical thinking with large data sets.
* Facilitate ideation sessions and collaborative work activities.
* Present visual design work to senior stakeholders.

* **Visual Design Creation:**
* Apply a comprehensive understanding of visual design theory, research data, and best practices to inform design decisions.
* Design highly complex visual artifacts for digital media (web or native app) to exchange information, elicit emotion, and facilitate interaction.
* Develop complex low-fidelity sketches, hi-fidelity mock-ups, and prototypes to communicate intent or delivery specifications for development.
* Facilitate design critiques, evaluate visual designs for inclusivity, and provide expert advice and guidance to cross-functional teams.
* Contribute practical direction to the larger design team on visual communication standards, tools, channels, and processes.

* **Research and Testing:**
* Facilitate usability testing sessions.
* Participate in or initiate research activities.
* Research visual design and communication strategies within the financial services sector and perform competitive audits pertinent to specific design or business goals.
* Perform visual design audits where appropriate.

You’ll thrive in agile team environments and iterative processes, collaborating with interdisciplinary team members and stakeholders to analyze, design, and convey your mobile and responsive design vision. As a natural problem solver, communicator, and facilitator, you’ll be involved in every step of the process from idea generation to implementation.

**What You Need to Succeed**

* BA/BS degree in Design (e.g., interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science (CS), or a related field, or equivalent experience.
* A portfolio that includes web and/or mobile design samples.
* Solid knowledge of design tools (e.g., Figma, Mural, UserTesting.com) and principles (e.g., typography, grid systems, visual hierarchy, color, white space).
* Understanding of responsive design principles.
* Experience working within an agile process.

**Nice to Have**

* Experience designing outstanding digital products and experiences.
* Proven ability to communicate conceptual ideas and design rationale, all within a user-centered design process.
* Excellent problem-solving skills.
* Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build good working relationships.
* Knowledge and/or experience in the agile process.

**About Aquent Talent**

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.
Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match.  More information on our awesome benefits!
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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