Staff Product Designer

| Greater NYC Area | Remote
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Want to work at the forefront of a fast-growing and award winning fintech company? With an incredible team and partners looking for innovative results, we’re rapidly growing and continue to add new asset classes to our offerings. We are on the lookout for smart and collaborative talent to join our team. As a cloud-based company, we are currently operating in a flexible and hybrid work model.

Job Description

SIMON is looking for a Staff UX/UI Product Designer with a strong interest and capability in designing highly innovative and engaging user experiences for our cutting-edge financial application. The individual must have an eye for functional design and possess technical skills to synthesize high-level concepts and ideas into concrete high-fidelity designs. The individual must be able to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently to bring simplicity and user friendliness to meet client needs and vision. We are looking for an individual who is passionate, creative, and enthusiastic, with an ability to fluidly adapt to new UX design challenges and problem solve in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential

  • Lead all phases of the UX & design process: user research, concept development, visual design and prototyping
  • Understand and translate user needs, business requirements, and technical capabilities into innovative product solutions
  • Define entire user experiences, and interaction concepts. Creating wireframes, user flows, site maps and high-fidelity prototypes
  • Create intuitive, elegant, user-centric designs
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team members throughout the design phase to address iterative feedback and to ensure optimal design execution
  • Work with our engineers to effectively implement the product vision

What We’re Looking For

  • 8+ years of experience
  • Bachelor ºs Degree in Human Computer Interactions, Communication Design, Visual Arts or related field
  • Strong portfolio that demonstrates UX and visual skills in digital products
  • Ability to think at a high level about product strategy
  • Experience in both (mobile & desktop) web and app applications
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Proficiency in Sketch, Zeplin, Invision, Adobe Creative Suite etc.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Fintech startup background
  • Experience with CSS, Javascript, HTML

We offer a competitive salary and benefits, the chance to work with a curated team of top-notch, highly creative talent, and a fun and agile work environment with many perks in New York City’s Hudson Yards district. 

About SIMON

SIMON Markets is an award-winning fintech company that is committed to transforming the digital experience for financial professionals, enabling them to better serve their clients. SIMON’s intelligent and innovative platform delivers an end-to-end digital suite of tools to over 100,000 financial professionals, who serve $5 trillion in client assets, empowering them with on-demand education, an intuitive marketplace, real-time analytics, and lifecycle management.

With a focus on reshaping the advisor experience, SIMON is setting new industry standards, simplifying the complex, and delivering structured investment, annuity, and defined outcome ETF solutions to investment professionals, centralized within one unique ecosystem.

Originally incubated within Goldman Sachs, SIMON launched as an independently operating company in December 2018 under the shared ownership and direction of seven leading financial institutions—Barclays, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Prudential, and Wells Fargo. Growth equity firm WestCap became an investor in 2021. The company is headquartered in New York, NY, with an additional location in Birmingham, AL.

No matter which part of the team you join, there is something interesting to work on. Our front-end team is building out our web and mobile presence using React, Redux, and Webpack along with some very sophisticated data visualizations. Our back-end team is using Scala, Akka, Postgres and other open-source technologies to build a micro-services architecture that can scale to handle our ambitious roadmap. Our quantitative engineering team is researching and building novel financial strategies to widen our competitive advantage. Our dev-ops team is creating a development and production environment with Docker and Kubernetes to keep us nimble. Product Management sits in the middle of it all to make it happen.

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While we transitioned seamlessly into a flexible work-from-home model in March 2020, we recently opened expansive tech-ready, and flexible new office spaces in NYC and Birmingham, AL for any vaccinated teammates who wish to take advantage.

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