Invesco

UX Designer

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2 Locations

Mid level

Fintech

The Role

The UX Designer will lead design projects using Design Thinking, collaborate with teams to create product strategies, and manage design systems while improving user experience.

Summary Generated by Built In

As one of the world’s leading asset managers, Invesco is dedicated to helping investors worldwide achieve their financial objectives. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world.

If you're looking for challenging work, smart colleagues, and a global employer with a social conscience, come explore your potential at Invesco. Make a difference every day!

Job Description

As part of a Global team, you’ll be a pivotal part of our agile squads, where you will be the link between our business partners, product owners and the development team. You’ll learn about meaningful FinTech trends and help deliver key FinTech projects that help Investment and Distribution teams modernize the way they work to achieve their goals.

As a contributor to the vision and product strategy for the initiatives the team undertakes, where we can improve our ability to be forward-thinking and agile to move quickly, iterate on ideas, and quickly show value. You will be comfortable taking a Design Thinking approach to evolving ideas collaboratively with business partners, the use of UX/UI and visual prototyping will be a key part of defining our products. You will define user stories and prioritize the backlog in line with business/partner priorities, working closely with other squad members. You’ll also have a pivotal role in monitoring quality of delivery and accept work as it is completed. You enjoy the challenge of researching new trends, and your presentation skills are key to share this information, preparing communications and tracking initiatives. Your approach is to start with ‘why’ we do something, rather than ‘what’ we do.

Key Responsibilities / Duties:

Owns and maintains our visual design system, in coordination with marketing & branding to align to Invesco’s broader guidelines.
Striving to identify and promote the ‘art of the possible’ innovative solutions, often breaking new ground and pushing the boundaries of what is normal and comfortable.
In addition, a focus on feature roadmap coupled with a plan to ensure maximum targeted/strategic adoption.
Assists our product owners to translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria with consistent, intuitive look and feel.
Collaborates with non designers on the team on design standards, quality.
Determines the next steps to advance products with regards to delivering the highest business value.
Proactively identify, resolve, or call out issues, concerns, and impediments to get the project developed over several sprints.
Provides final sign-off for projects.
Can visually articulate the vision and plan succinctly for reporting and awareness.

Work Experience / Knowledge:

Ideally coming from a fast paced start-up/FinTech environment, where you will have had responsibility for managing products with from idea to market launch
Demonstrable track record of creating product strategies to rapidly grow products aligned to business value, working product & UX portfolio of work
Exposure to the Financial services sector would be advantageous, however the ability to effectively communicate the vision and get consensus from all participants is essential.
You will have experience as a Scrum Product Owner, working with Agile Delivery Teams, utilizing Agile techniques e.g Scrum/Kanban.

Skills / Other Personal Attributes Required:

A passion for emerging technologies, tinkering, learning and teaching others
Experience of Design Thinking, UI/UX, design system
Understanding of design tools inVision, framer.io, sketch, etc..
Basic understanding of CSS, HTML, JavaScript and other styling/programming languages
Hands on experience designing mobile and desktop applications
Balance of technical knowledge and business acumen, Financial Services experience would be an advantage, however awareness of how technology is inspiring change across industries and experienced in how it can be used within the organization
SA driver, decision maker, decisive, effective team collaborator.
Should be organized, self-motivated, highly adaptable, and have a strong desire to adopt change.
Solid collaboration and interpersonal skill. Can engage daily with the team.
Outstanding leadership and motivational skills - possessing a willingness to empower as well as inspire commitment and positive attitude in the team

Formal Education:

Educated to Graduate level, post graduate qualifications (MBA,CFA) would be a plus.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

YesWorkplace Model

At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office.

What’s in it for you?

Our people are at the very core of our success. Invesco employees get more out of life through our comprehensive compensation and benefit offerings including:

Flexible paid time off
Hybrid work schedule
401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution
Health & wellbeing benefits
Parental Leave benefits
Employee stock purchase plan

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.

Invesco's culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.