Responsibilities:

📍Foster a welcoming, inclusive, collaborative, and supportive team dedicated to building delightful user experiences, interfaces, and robust solutions for the entire FTS ecosystem. 📍Lead, support, and mentor new-to-the-field and senior-level talent in their career growth and aspirations. 📍Establish a culture of user-focused design with great attention to the overall user experience across the FTS products. 📍Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Design leadership across multiple teams and projects to prioritize and deliver delightful user experiences and features to the entirety of FTS’s user base. 📍Drive and implement AB testing strategies and data-driven decision-making. 📍Conduct user research, including usability testing, interviews, and surveys, to understand user behavior and preferences. 📍Drive the design process to conceptualize, iterate, and implement intuitive user experiences that align with business objectives and user needs. 📍Create wireframes, prototypes, and mockups to communicate design ideas and gather feedback from stakeholders and users. 📍Iterate on designs based on feedback, usability testing results, and data analysis to continuously improve the user experience. 📍Ensure consistency, coherence, and reuse across Figure’s product landscape by establishing and maintaining design guidelines, standards, and components. 📍Work closely with designers and developers to ensure that designs are implemented accurately and efficiently. 📍Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in UX design and fintech. 📍Advocate for the user throughout the product development process and champion a user-centric mindset within the organization.

Qualifications:

📍Bachelor’s and/or advanced degree in Design, Fine Arts, or related. 📍Passion for Human-Computer Interaction and user-centric design and engineering, as well as an advanced degree in HCI or a related field, are big pluses. 📍15+ years of relevant design and/or product experience in a fast-paced, agile environment; 5+ years leading user experience and design teams. 📍Experience in the fintech or financial services industry is beneficial but not required. 📍Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies, usability, and research best practices; experience developing UI and UX development strategies across multiple products, product types, and end-users. 📍Proven experience in Mobile-first accessible application design. 📍Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, or similar. 📍Demonstrated advocacy for Design Systems and shared themeable component libraries 📍Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, with the ability to effectively articulate and present design concepts and ideas.