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At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
Our Mission:Northwestern Mutual has 160 years of history providing financial security to millions of people. Continuing that tradition means changing to meet the needs of our clients and financial advisors. We are a strong, innovative, and growing company that invests in people who care and make a positive impact. The Design team leads the way by creating human, simple, and engaging products to help people plan, track, and protect their financial goals.What's the role?We are leading a major digital transformation, and our designers can expect to play a critical part in driving our organization's total success by applying researched-derived insights through applied critical & creative process, and detailed & principled design.What you'll be doing:- Creating prototypes that reflect a nuanced, detailed understanding of business and user needs to guide engineering, product, and business partners
- Presenting your work to teams (e.g., Design, Product, Business, and Engineering) and/or customers to receive feedback and understand user needs
- Producing visual designs from concept to delivery
- Creating wireframes, journey maps, user jobs and scenarios, task flows, and personas in support of interaction designs for experiences serving our home office, field teams, and clients
- Conceptualizing and deliver artifacts at various levels of fidelity
- Analyzing tough problems and think though design challenges in a systematic way
- Working under the guidance of a more senior UX designer, while still having ownership over own work
- Following an iterative design process to wireframe, prototype, and validate design ideas
- Producing work that follows UX standard methodologies, internal guidelines, and also brings fresh ideas to the table
- Collaborating with other designers, product owners, and technologists, and contribute to the larger design team through research, presentations, and internal projects.
- Experience completing most UX deliverables.
- A self-starter who is user-focused, detailed, and solutions-oriented
- Basic knowledge of the fundamentals of user-centered design, visual design, brand development, and how products are put together.
- An extreme passion for understanding the user, and a strong communicator of the user's perspective throughout the design process.
- An understanding that UX is more than just UI, but includes all user-centered design activities from research, concepting, flows, sitemaps wireframes, prototypes, annotations, and more.
- Working knowledge of design and prototyping tools, such as Figma and anything else needed to get the job done.
- A strong online portfolio available for viewing.