Senior User Experience Designer

ConsumerTrack™ is unique in the digital marketing and media industry - we combine marketing, digital, content and fintech. Our performance based approach increases brand awareness and generates targeted audience engagement on our internal web properties and partner sites.

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What Are We Looking For?

Are you a Senior UX Designer with a love for user testing and research? Do you make data based design decisions? GoBankingRates is seeking an experienced senior product designer to design our digital marketing products.

What's interesting about this role? 

This role will help build the best digital experiences for customers so they may Live Richer™. Your design and technical skills will help problem solve for all digital touch points, improve conversion performance, and your design mentorship will help motivate and groom Design outsource talent. In this role, you should be an analytical and creative designer who is able to grasp product needs and solve problems. A strong portfolio of successful redesigns and other technical projects is essential.

How Will You Make an Impact?

• Understand product specifications and user workflows

• Work with product managers to create personas through user research and data

• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers

• Communicate design ideas and prototypes to developers

• Develop and create innovative concepts in keeping with project scope, strategic positioning, and timelines

• Prepare, conduct, and validate working hypothesis’ with customers through usability research of wireframes, clickable prototypes and published product, and participate in design critique

• Find creative ways to solve UX problems (e.g. usability, findability)

• Working knowledge of current front-end capabilities and limitations to partner closely with development to implement solutions.

• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)

• Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback

• Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors and images

• Keep abreast of competitor products and industry trends

• Plan and implement user research strategies and methodologies

What Will You Bring To Us?

• 5+years of industry experience designing software products, digital marketing, or web services

• 3+ years experience conducting user research in software development, e-commerce, content development, entertainment, or equivalent

• Experience managing projects and deadlines with emphasis on both quality and timely delivery

• Strong portfolio of design projects

• Full grasp of mobile and responsive design standards and best practices

• Deep understanding of the tools of the trade (Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Zeplin, InVision, and other prototyping tools)

• Experience with remote testing tools

• Knowledge of HTML/CSS; JavaScript is a plus

• Problem-solving aptitude and adaptability

• Analytical mind with a business acumen

• Excellent communication skills

• Good time-management skills

• Ability to translate complex information into easy-to-understand designs and visual elements

• Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders

• Experience working with outsource groups is a plus

• Ability to quickly and effectively share research results

• Ability to write test documentation such as test plans, scripts and reports

Benefits

• Competitive salary with excellent growth opportunity; we pride ourselves in having a team that exudes leadership, high initiative, creativity and passion.

• Awesome medical, dental and vision plans with heavy employer contribution

• Paid maternity leave and paternity leave programs

• Paid vacation, sick days and holidays

• Company funding for outside classes and conferences to help you improve your skills

• Contribution to student loan debt payments after the first year of employment

• 401(k) -- employees can start contributing immediately. After the first year, CTI matches your contribution up to 4% of your salary

A note about our response to COVID -19 and our new norm: The world has changed and we know it’s important to adapt and to do our part to take care of our teams in this global pandemic. Our number one priority is to have our ConsumerTrackers feel safe, balanced and connected. We’re committed to providing our teams with the best resources and tools to navigate this new virtual world that we’re living in. We've also reinvented the ways in which we recognize, celebrate, and engage with each other to keep our culture strong!

Here’s a peek into our world at ConsumerTrack -

• Our teams are working remotely 100% for the foreseeable future and have flex time. We’re in the digital media space so we’re mobile and flexible!

  • *Option to work from an office (if you need to get away!)

• Tools & resources are available to keep our team connected across North America. (JIRA, Trello, Airtable, Slack, Zoom and so much more!)

• To keep our community of ConsumerTrackers engaged and connected, virtual team building events are held weekly and monthly.

• For wellness and balance, weekly virtual fitness classes such as yoga are available.

• To care for the local communities that we’re a part of across the U.S our team members host socially distanced philanthropic events every quarter.

• And most importantly, we’ve committed to consistent and transparent communication to help us all stay informed, engaged and to keep us on our path to success and #greatness.

We are an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.