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Principal – Experience Insights Director
| Company | Northern Trust |
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| Location | Chicago, IL, USA |
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| Salary | $137400 – $233600 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Ability to put Human-Centered Design and UI/UX best practices to work within a professional setting
- Ability to recognize, predict and incorporate use cases and user interactions into design
- Expertise in a range of relevant design methods and concepts, which may include low-fidelity sketching, information architecture, wireframe development, usability testing, research planning, competitive analysis
- Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills, leading teams to a common vision
- Highly flexible, adaptable to change and comfortable with ambiguity
- Exceptional use of collaborative/communication tools, able to present work and decisions effectively within EDR team, through presentation and storytelling skills
- Clear growth mindset, looking for opportunities to learn and motivated to approach challenges proactively
- 12+ years demonstrated work experience delivering digital experiences
- Educated in design or related field, formally or through comparable training
- Design thinking and UI/UX best practices, as demonstrated in a portfolio of professional work
- Experience working with a cross-functional team or large-scale software development lifecycle, preferably in an agile environment
Responsibilities
- Helps to establish an open culture of optimism, experimentation, curiosity, and rapid prototyping
- Leads multidisciplinary teams to work together with a shared purpose to deliver great design that addresses user’s needs
- Achieves success through trial and experimentation, recognizes that prototyping can be done at various levels of fidelity, and has experience doing and leading work
- Comfortable synthesizing multiple and sometimes conflicting inputs into a common point-of-view
- Designs and specifies user interfaces and information architecture using human-centered techniques including observational studies, client and partner interviews, and usability testing
- Has a passion for developing others and will help to identify talent and build teams with a lens to how different personalities and capabilities could fit together on a project to create real impact
- Looks outside for inspiration around new approaches and tools and has a desire to build bridges to corporate innovation initiatives and the broader design community
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
