Senior User Experience Designer

Are you passionate about conceptualizing, nurturing, developing and proving new ideas and developing them into new solutions? Would you like to help create the next major innovation in and around the payment landscape pioneering and leveraging the most advanced devices, hardware and software in the world, anything and everything in and around world’s largest payment ecosystem?

Smart phones, connected devices, Internet of things, future of payment, smart POS, iBeacons, are you passionate about any of these. Are you looking to join a start-up or an incubator so that you could convert your ideas into real products? Come join us.

We will provide the tools, the environment, the eco-system and the support you need. You will find an informal, innovation friendly environment at 1 Market St in the middle of San Francisco downtown, overlooking some sweeping views of the Bay and Bay Bridge.

Position Details:
Location:                    Austin, TX
Duration:                    08/21/2016 with extensions for the right candidate and possible conversion for the right candidate
Interview:                   Phone then onsite.
# of Positions:           1

Seeking a User Experience Designer to provide analysis and design of consumer-facing self-service applications for web/mobile.

Education/Experience:
•    Bachelor degree in Design-related field
•    3+ years of experience required

Major Job Duties and Responsibilities:
•    Conceptual Problem Solving
•    Requirements gathering and production of style guides.
•    Wire-framing a wide range of experiences not limited to web, mobile and tablet.
•    Creation of high-fidelity, pixel perfect mock-ups
•    Deliver user-centered design solutions in fast paced environment, with quick iterative cycles
•    Willing to work with a geographically diverse team of product owners, UX designers, developers
•    Capable of communicating effectively with engineers and problem solving UX issues

Must Have Skills:
•    3-5 strong years of Agile development or knowledge, usability testing, user research.
•    This candidate must have a strong interaction designer background.
•    They must be comfortable speaking to product owners and development teams, a self starter, take/run with the project
Responsibility level:
•    Exercises independent judgment with minimal direction from supervisor. Serve as a design lead and work with our product partners to drive design decision making.
•    Capable of leading meetings and speaking to design decision making clearly and intelligently.

Skills:
•    Conceptual design
•    Able to maintain a high attention to detail in a fast paced, quick turn-around setting
•    Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills (Required)
•    Ability to interpret and design based on written style guides. (Required)
•    Expert ability to work independently and manage one’s time (Required)
•    Expert knowledge of Adobe products (Required)
•    Working knowledge of Sketch (Required)
•    Expert knowledge of design techniques and principals involved in the production of prototypes, wire-frames and high-fidelity mock-ups
•    Strong visual design
•    Strong aptitude for usability
•    Working knowledge of HTML and CSS desired

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.