Sr. Mobile UX + Accessibility Designer

Sr. Mobile UX + Accessibility Designer

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Job Description

Razorfish is looking for a UX Designer tohelp lead the ground-up design and architecture for our fintech client's very first account servicing mobile application with a specific focus on accessibility.

You will be working alongside research, strategy, design, and development teams to create a variety of deliverables including wires, hi/lo-fidelity prototypes, journey maps, personas, and related UX assets.

You will ensure compliance withaccessibility standards (including WCAG 2.1) across the entire project and perform all necessary accessibility documentation. You will also be expected to leverage your broad knowledge base of digital assistive technologies to provide guidance and direction to the team and the project as it relates to accessibility.

You'll workto ensure that multiple feature sets will interact seamlessly as a template that can be deployed across the entire product portfolio and extend the design patterns established by the client's .com/.net presence to the mobile app channel.

You will also support the translation ofthe existing app services layer into a modern, accessible, best-in-class experience for iOS and Android devices consistent with the client's brand identity.

Specific functions may include:

• Managing/maintaining updates to client standards through research, collaboration, and knowledge of current trends
• Staying ahead of emerging standards and technologies (web, mobile, document) and analyzing impacts to company standards
• Recommending solutions to maintain compliance while creating accessible digital products for an excellent customer experience
• Updating and managing documentation to provide guidance and education for a broad audience
• Assess existing sites/properties for usefulness, usability, visual design, content, branding, and best practices
• Assist with stakeholder interviews to understand key success factors for a project or pursuit
• Identify and document meaningful patterns from user research and UX audit findings
• Provide recommendations to the client/internal team based on findings
• Organize opportunities into visually compelling matrices or maps
• Create comprehensive sitemaps, wireframe systems, and process flows for large-scale solutions
• Develop detailed, annotated wireframes depicting all elements on unique screen types, including content, functional, navigation, and interaction specifications
• Utilize low-fidelity, medium-fidelity, high-fidelity prototypes across different stages of the design process
• Present concepts and deliverables to clients and internal stakeholders
• Leads and balances multiple projects and/or work streams
• Responsible for interaction design, task flow, behavior, and navigation design
• Demonstrates the information architecture and interaction design skills necessary to support client work
• Ideates, sketches, and prototypes for desktop, tablet and mobile devices
• Creates UX strategy, develops customer scenarios, conducts journey mapping and collaborates on persona development
• Collaborates with Consumer Insights, Analytics/Data Science, and clients to apply data and insights to UX design decisions and to determine UX success metrics & KPIs
• Actively collaborate in cross-disciplinary idea generation and client co-creation sessions
• Articulate rationale for approach in the context of both business and user needs
• Define processes and deliverables that meet project goals and constraints

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience working on the design and architecture of consumer-facing mobile applications, preferably within a digital agency
• Experience working within Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience developing a series of cohesive UX assets (including wires, prototypes, maps, flows, personas, etc.) consistent with client brand guidelines
• Extensive knowledge of accessibility standards including WCAG 2.1
• Working knowledge of native mobile (iOS and Android) and web development skills includingsemantic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WAI-ARIA so as to be able to partner and collaborate with development teams
• Broad knowledge of digital assistive technologies
• Experience working with research and strategy teams to synthesize and apply research results to the architecture of the experience; may also participate in UAT
• Highly collaborative and comfortable working directly with clients, partner teams, and internal stakeholders including presentation of work
• Familiar with scoping and estimating UX tasks
• Prior experience working in or alongside the fintech/financial industry preferred

• A strong portfolio showcasing specific UX assets (including wires, prototypes,personas, flows, user stories, sitemaps, etc) is REQUIRED at time of application. Please provide password if necessary.

Additional Information

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