Senior User Experience Designer (Non-LO-No Consumer Contact) Position Available In Blount, Tennessee

Senior User Experience Designer (Non-LO-No Consumer )
locations
Maryville, TN
time type
Full time
posted on
Posted 2 Days Ago
job requisition id

JR119710

Business Title:

UI/UX Designer III (Non-LO-No Consumer )
Career Level pleted by Comp): 14
s to:

Financial Services Marketing Director Department:

Marketing

Amount of Travel:

As needed

Schedule:

Hybrid – 3 days in-office, 2 days remote
Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. was established in 1974 and currently services over 150,000 loans. Our strength as ananization is rooted in the quality of our people and products. We are an equal opportunity employermitted to creating a diverse workforce. Furthermore, we’re financially strong, with a reputation for leading the industry with unsurpassed products, a broad range of services and a coast-to-coast presence. We’re professionally strong, from entry level to more experienced positions, we’re actively recruiting individuals who are passionate, positive, and eager to learn. As a member of our team, we will equip you for success, you’ll enjoy excellent benefits, opportunities for growth, and an encouraging culture that supports work/life balance.

JOB SUMMARY

The UI/UX Designer III focuses on delivering best-in-class user experiences for our internal and external users. This position plays an instrumental role in the technicalponents of the UI/UX Designs, ensuring the smooth user experiences can easily be translated into technical code and capabilities. This role serves as a senior technical role, able to translateplex designs and concepts into streamlined designs and capabilities. The UI/UX Designer III is a subject matter expert and specialist in this field.
Design Creation
Creates wireframes, design specifications, prototypes, and user flow diagrams that articulateplex user journeys across multiple webpages, touchpoints, and platforms. Create and provide tools that help guide teams on their journey to usable and intuitive design. Consider existing insights, technical constraints, business needs, and specific platform demands to produce user centered, data driven, and design focused solutions. Ensures design brand standards and guidelines are maintained and d with development teams to guide product design. Ensurepliance with accessibility standards (WCAG) to create inclusive designs.
Design experiences that optimize conversion rates and user engagement based on analytics insights.
Create design systemponents and UI libraries for scalability.
Establish and maintain a scalable design system for use across products.
Develop design documentation andponent libraries to ensure consistency.
User Research & Validation
Conduct user research, usability testing, and gather insights to inform design decisions.
Utilize A/B testing and heat mapping tools to analyze user interactions.
Engage with users through surveys, interviews, and usability testing to refine the experience.
Project Management Schedule and lead design reviews with stakeholders to gather input and secure necessary approvals at key project milestones.
Create and maintain project timelines, ensuring that design tasks arepleted on schedule to keep the overall project moving forward.
Participate in end-to-end design reviews with project teams. Advocate and lead UX discussions with project teams.
Collaboration Play an active role in partnering with cross-functional team members in leading cohesive design standards and best practices across the enterprise.
Advocate and evangelize user centered design and research best practices. Mentor and coach Team Members on usability and design best practices. Work alongside product and development team to define user requirements. Other duties as assigned This job description is not an exhaustive list of all the functions that a team member and other duties may be assigned. Part of the marketing teams roles will include understanding marketing strategy, copywriting, branding, and project management.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

Associate or bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.

Experience:

4+ years recent experience in visual design craftsmanship,bined with a keen ability to anticipate and address user needs.
Professional level knowledge of industry-standard design software (Figma, Adobe Creative Suites) Experience with integration platforms such as Marketing Cloud, Salesforce, Appian or similar. Experience with both public facing and internally facing web applications. Experience in responsive frontend development (HTML, CSS, Sass, etc.) and frameworks/libraries or design systems (Material Design, etc.).
Sufficient understanding of project management approaches, tools, and phases of the delivery lifecycle (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) and experience in JIRA, Confluence, or equivalent documentation tools.
Experience convertingplex business processes into simple, logical, easy to use systems and skilled in page design,anization, and structure of content. Experience and knowledge of UX principles, methodologies, and design best practices. This includes user centered design, user research methodologies, and accessibility standards. Ability to influence others and move toward amon vision or goal. Capable of researching and gathering in-depth insights into a user’s needs through a variety of techniques including user observation, group facilitation, storyboarding, etc. Strong active listening and collaboration skills.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Must be able to remain in a stationary position 75% of the time.
Constantly operate aputer and other office productivity machinery, such as a telephone, calculator, copy machine, andputer er.
30%munication methodspleted over the phone.
Must be able to exchange accurate information at all times.
Constantly works in an indoor temperature controlled, sealed window office environment.

BENEFITS

Medical and Dental Plan with Prescription Coverage and Vision
Competitive benefits including 401(K) includes 100%pany match of the first 4%
Paid time off days (PTO), maternity/paternity leave, and holidays
Community involvement including Volunteer Paid Time Off (VTO)
Tuition Assistance for your first degree
Enjoying “home” to our brand new, state-of-the-art Home Office equipped with onsite fitness facility with full gym, workout classes, volleyball and basketball courts, ping-pong, disc golf course, and onsite restaurant
Wellness programs that focus on emotional, social, spiritual, intellectual, environmental, physical, and financial well-being
Collaborative and energetic work environment
Professional development and promotion opportunities
Competitive bonus programs
Here are some more reasons to choose Vanderbilt Mortgage!
A Berkshire Hathaway Company – an integrity-basedanization offering unlimited career growth
Full-time team members have the flexibility to create their own health, dental, and vision benefits package. Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. providespetitive 401(k) programs, including investment options andpany matching for full and part time employees after one year to help our team members achieve their financial goals. Additional benefits include paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, Employee Assistance Programs, and more.
Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance Inc. is a subsidiary of Clayton of which is proud to have earned spots on the following Forbes lists: America’s Best Employers, America’s Best Employers by State, Best Employers for Diversity, Best Employers for Women.
As part of Vanderbilt Mortgage’smitment to Opening Doors to a Better Life, VMF is now providing paid time for Team Members to volunteer to causes that are meaningful to them through the Clayton Impact program.
At VMF, we encourage holistic wellness with physical, nutritional, social, financial, spiritual, and occupational programs available online or in-person for team members.
Our newly renovated Home Office campus offers an onsite restaurant, onsite fitness facility with full gym, in-person and virtual workout classes, yoga/barre studio, volleyball, and basketball courts, walking paths, and a disc golf course.
Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance Inc. ismitted to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
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