Senior User Experience Designer
Thomson/West - Eagan, MN (Minneapolis, MN area) USA

Metavante Corporation, a leader in financial services technology is looking for a Senior User Experience Designer.

Primary Functions

Responsible for designing functional and easy-to-use software interfaces that will serve customers and employees of financial institutions. Focus includes the user interface design of online end consumer and business-to-business applications including online banking, online bill payment, online cash management and adminstration tools. This is a full-time permanent position.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for all aspects of software user interface design including audience and task analysis, market analysis, prototyping, and user interface specifications, guidelines, and standards.
• Collaborate with engineers to design the total human-computer interaction and to develop the flow of information in Metavante's software applications.
• Act as a representative for Metavante's users and customers.
• Contribute to the user-centered design process by participating in field observations and interviews, surveys, focus groups, exploratory studies, and task analyses.
• Work closely with clients to identify and interpret specific business needs and to develop the creative products to meet those needs.
• Act as a designer (or leads a design team) and consultant on several interface projects simultaneously.
• Collaborate with product teams to ensure that a user-centered design process is incorporated into Metavante's development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with designers to design and prototype software human interfaces using development tools.
• Develop and maintain human interface specifications, guidelines, and standards.
• Research and analyze target audience(s) for software. Work with usability specialists to conduct necessary front-end research. Create a user profile for relevant products.
• Participate in usability testing process by working on test plans, attending test sessions, and brainstorming solutions to interface problems with usability specialists.
• Participate in defining and communicating design guidelines and ensuring creative products adhere to security, usability, and quality standards.
• May be required to represent the usability team in relevant product meetings.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Required Qualifications

• 4-year degree in Cognitive Science, Human Factors Engineering, Interface/Visual Design or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Three to five years of user interface design and usability or related experience in research and development environment required.
• In-depth knowledge of graphical user interface principles and visual design principles required.
• Ability to produce mock-ups required. Ability to produce production ready HTML highly desired.
• Must be familiar with Web based and Windows-based human interface and development environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills as well as presentation skills required.

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