Director - User Experience & Design - Leapset - Redwood City

Job description
Leapset is looking for a Director of User Experience & Design with a proven track record of outstanding conceptual design, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design skills. You will be responsible for all stages of design and must think strategically while executing with great attention to detail. Your work will involve designing interfaces that solve complex interactions with elegance and simplicity across multiple merchant and consumer platforms. You have a strong interest in technology and know how to work alongside engineers and product managers. You will own the user experience across the Leapset platform servicing customers, merchants, merchant employees and internal Leapset employees. While driving user experience in new features and products you will also be responsible for making sure design and experience standards are maintained throughout the company.
The successful candidate will display an exceptional attention to detail, the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs, priorities, and timelines, and a demonstrated track record of completing quality products on time. Past experience working in the online financial services industry is a plus.
As part of a small team, you’ll need to wear many hats, so flexibility and a can-do attitude are essential. You should be a creative thinker who can combine imagination, past experience, and traditional analytics to support your ideas and vision. The candidate will also know how to put those ideas into action quickly by driving the product development process.
Responsibilities
• Leading interaction design from the requirements gathering phase through execution of project. Deliverables to include use cases, task flows, user interface elements, and documenting detailed design specifications for development and QA.
• Developing storyboards and mockups to effectively communicate interaction models and design ideas to clients and Leapset team members.
• Defining design strategy, standards, project approach and scoping.
• Lead, manage and train an offshore team of designers in best of breed user experience design practices

Desired Skills and Experience
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience as a key member of user experience team
• Bachelor’s or Masters degree in HCI, product design, human factors or related field
• The individual should be skilled at presenting work in an organized and articulate manner and be comfortable contributing in client and internal meetings
• Web development experience for application prototyping highly desirable
• Solid understanding of user interface design principles
• Ability to develop new approaches to complex design problems
• Fluency with Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash (ActionScript 2.0) or other design tools and HTML5
• Ability to communicate design principles and build consensus
• Excellent leadership, communication and teamwork skills
• Must provide a portfolio or project samples of recent work. These samples should include finished solutions as well as process documentation.
• Project management experience is a plus
• Ability to manage a balance between deliberation and productivity is a plus

Enter your email address:

Refer This Job To Your Friends And Help Them To Find Jobs!