UI/UX Designer - Financial Services Lab Mckinsey & Company
Waltham, MA

Job Description

Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction, Service Design, Computer Science or related discipline; Master's degree is a plus
* Extensive experience with data-driven UX research and proven record of translating business requirements and user needs into intuitive, impactful user experiences for software and websites
* Extensive experience working with rapid prototyping tools such as Sketch or Invision
* Familiarity with common front end Javascript (React) and data visualization frameworks (e.g. d3)
* Proven record of leadership in a work setting and/or through personal project portfolio



Who You'll Work With

You will be based in either our New Jersey, New York, or Waltham, MA office and will be a part of our Financial Services Lab team.

The work of our Financial Services Lab encompasses overall strategies and specific solutions for consumer banking and wholesale business; advanced analytics and client segments; organizational issues; performance improvement; and mergers and alliances. We also undertake work on client issues in marketing, risk management, branding and customer relationship management.

What You'll Do

Using best practices in data-driven user-centric design, you will develop the user interfaces and flows for the custom software tools that will be implemented directly within our client organizations.

As a core member of integrated agile teams consisting of back-end and front-end engineers, data scientists and subject matter experts, you will design and execute all user research efforts via workshops, end user interviews, and concept sprints. You will then communicate and convey your design ideas and concepts to the integrated agile team using a variety of methods (storyboards, wireframes, prototypes, user stories, etc.). Additionally, you will validate your research and designs through usability testing and work with the integrated agile team to ensure successful implementation of your design efforts.

This is a unique opportunity for you to exercise your creativity and user-centric design skills, whilst growing into a technology and design thought leader at our firm.

The software you will help design will cover customer acquisition and retention, pricing, fraud detection, customer service, credit monitoring, geospatial optimization, and more for forward-thinking financial services. But, it must do so with a flair. You will bring the best of user experience and design from the consumer software world to the enterprise.

McKinsey & Company is an equal opportunity employer.