Job Description: Director, User Experience Design
The Role
Fidelity Investments is looking for a hands-on User Experience Director who is passionate about their craft and making investing approachable for all audiences. We are redefining the financial services industry by changing the way we work and putting the customer first. It’s a fast-paced environment where decisions are data-focused, collaborative, and iterative. The organization deeply values design.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- 10-15+ years of UX or related experience is preferred
- A degree in a related field such as interactive design, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, or human factors is preferred
- Provide design and product thought leadership, identifying and developing strategic design opportunities to drive business and product strategy, creating artifacts to align stakeholders and teams to
- Work across and collaborate with product, engineering, UX research, and others to develop and prototype product vision
- Lead definition of the design work and deliver business outcomes across multiple product teams, with minimal guidance and coaching
- Distilling qualitative and quantitative feedback to unearth recurring themes and promote data-driven design decisions
- An array of design skills including service design and strategic design methods. Information architecture, prototyping, user research, and visual design will also be critical
- Effective communication as a writer, presenter, and facilitator; equally at ease speaking with developer partners or executives
- Experience working on agile teams delivering value in digital products preferred
- Experience running and/or using research to support evidence-focused design decisions preferred
- A digital portfolio we can review online is required
- Ability to design across all channels including web, native, and automated
- A foundation of development knowledge, both web and mobile
- Familiarity with the value of design systems, understanding reuse and scale, and knowing when to contribute to make them better
- Partnering with user research to understand the customer problems to tackle
- An unwavering curiosity to ask why
- Design brings you happiness
- Work across the organization to drive consistent associate-facing experiences
- Contribute to the culture of the UXD group
- Coach and mentor junior designers across the group
?The Team
This role will support the business critical work of modernizing one of our Billing systems. You will join multiple squads and UX Designers who are engaged in envisioning and delivering this large-scale body of work. These are fast-paced teams who need a seasoned UX Designer to join their flow.
Company Overview
Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.
Join Us
At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work in 2023. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.
At Fidelity, our goal is for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we’re calling "Dynamic Working."
We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.
Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations @fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.