User Experience Designer

Consultant, User Experience Design

About Our Firm:

Granite Solutions Groupe provides financial services decision makers with people and solutions that deliver. Our clients count on us to deliver the right talent at the right time to achieve critical business results. We leverage our industry knowledge and passion for client priorities to deliver human capital solutions.

GSG was founded in 1998 as a consulting firm delivering project management and technology solutions for the financial services industry. GSG now has a global presence, with team members deployed across the U.S. at Fortune 1000 companies and high-performing Fintech firms.

High-caliber consultants are the face of GSG at our client organizations and offices. We value the deep relationships we have with our consultants that enable us to place them in roles where their skills will have an immediate impact. The GSG consulting team is comprised of diverse, experienced, driven, and dynamic contributors who excel at getting things done.

About the Opportunity:

GSG is seeking a UX Designer to join our dynamic team and deliver timely work for our business partners. The position is for a contract to support the Design team with the redesign of an existing payments product. The purpose of the work is to redesign the existing experience around new technology and a new flow, apply brand guidelines and Accessibility standards, and document specifications of the revisions.

Responsibilities:

• Will be responsible for collaborating with a Design lead and other team members, learning and applying Design style guidelines to your work, sharing work with the Product and Dev teams, and participating in presentations with executive leadership.

• Will be responsible for creating conceptual designs and validating the accuracy of implementation of our designs to our mobile interfaces.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience.

• Typically 5 to 8 years of relevant experience.

• Proficient at product management, visual design, interaction design, information architecture, usability principles, or similar experience.

• Effective presentation, verbal and written communication skills.

• Expert in visual design (font styles, color schema, look/feel, imagery, graphics, Photoshop, production output oriented) for native iOS applications. Banking experience is a plus.

• Expert with Figma; basic knowledge of HTML and CSS 3, and their respective impacts when designing financial industry experience.

• Familiarity with agile project methodology.

• Must have extensive experience designing for best practices and excellent communication and documentation skills.

• Must have experience creating style guides for development teams

• Must be confident as a visual and interaction designer and be able to create quickly with little direction or oversight.

• Strong attention to detail, ability to problem-solve and work independently when needed.

Employee Benefits:

GSG is excited to offer its consultants excellent compensation and a robust option of benefits which include comprehensive medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage. You will receive company-paid life insurance. In addition, we hope you will take advantage of eligible commuter benefits-like paying for work-related public transit and parking with pre-tax dollars. Save for your retirement with pre-tax contributions that go directly into your 401K. We also care about your pets with several options for pet insurance, discount card and prescriptions.

GSG's Commitment to Diversity:

As a diverse-owned business, GSG is committed to creating a diverse workforce, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.