Product Designer

WHO WE ARE
Apex Fintech Solutions (AFS) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by processing millions of transactions daily, to simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. Our robust suite of fintech solutions enables us to support clients such as Stash, Betterment, SoFi, and Webull, and more than 20 million of our clients' customers.
Collectively, AFS creates an environment in which companies with the biggest ideas in fintech are empowered to change the world. We are based in Dallas, TX and also have offices in Austin, New York, Chicago, Portland, and Belfast.
If you are seeking a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment where you'll have the opportunity to make an immediate impact, and you have the guts to change everything, this is the place for you.
AFS has received a number of prestigious industry awards, including:

• 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 Best Wealth Management Company - presented by Fintech Breakthrough Awards
• 2021 Most Innovative Companies - presented by Fast Company
• 2021 Best API & Best Trading Technology - presented by Global Fintech Awards

ABOUT THIS ROLE
Job Description
The Product Designer has an understanding of user-centered design and techniques, including task analysis, use cases, user journeys, usability testing and wire-framing. This role is able to research end users and develop solution designs that satisfy user and functional requirements. The UX/UI Designer works with the other designers, developers, technical content writers, and subject matter experts to translate user needs into easy to use and intuitive business applications.
At Apex Fintech Solutions, as aUX/UI Designer, you will champion the user throughout our products. You are passionate about the design process from gathering and compiling requirements, shadowing and interviewing the user, building wireframes and mockups, running usability studies, creating prototypes and writing detailed documentation.
Primary Responsibilities

• You are passionate about, and up to date on, user-centered design processes, systemic thinking, and interaction design principles.

• You will exercise your knowledge of design thinking, information architecture and user-centered design to deliver compelling user experiences.

• You will perform user interviews, user job shadowing and task analysis in order to understand the user's goals and to create user personas.

• From the requirements and user interviews you will create user flow diagrams, user journeys and user stories to describe the user's expectations, needs and pitfalls.

• You will work within an established design system to create wireframes, mockups and prototypes to describe and illustrate functions and features of interface concepts.

• You are open to, and actively solicit, feedback from the design team with an eye towards creating a universal user experience across all Apex products.

• As part of the UX/UI team you will participate in regular design reviews to evaluate in-progress design work.


Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Digital Design, Computer Science, HCI, a related discipline or 4 or more years of UX/UI design experience.

• Solid understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices.

• Able to work effectively in a team setting, including collaborating with other UX/UI designers and front-end developers via a distributed model to deliver design solutions for approval.

• Proficiency with Figma.

• Familiar with Confluence and JIRA.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Familiar with Enterprise and Web App design systems and constraints.

• Portfolio of design work demonstrating your user-centered design process, conceptualization skills, and design execution.

• Ability to thrive and take initiative in a fast-paced, Agile, environment.

• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS.

• Experience working in FinTech preferred.


​ Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Our Rewards
We offer a robust package of employee perks and benefits, including healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP), competitive PTO, 401k match, parental leave, and HSA contribution match. We also provide our employees with a paid subscription to the Calm app and offer generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits. At AFS, we offer a hybrid work schedule for most roles that allows employees to have the flexibility of working from home and one of our primary offices.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Commitment
We're looking for all kinds of people.
At Apex, we believe that wealth management and investing should be accessible to everyone, and we strive to create spaces to democratize investing for folks of all walks of life. Internally, we embrace diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive and equitable workplace, which reflects our company vision and mission. We value every team member's unique perspective and are committed to fostering a culture where everyone belongs. Join us in our mission to empower and celebrate individual differences.
Apex is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. We ensure that qualified applicants receive fair consideration for employment without discrimination based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, genetics, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. We stand by this commitment to promote a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce.