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Primary Location: United States (US) - Iowa - Johnston
Function: User Experience (CA)
Title: Lead UX Designer - 111690
Onsite/Remote:Remote Position
This position is eligible for remote work at the present time. The arrangement may be delayed for training or other job acclimation purposes and remains subject to change.
Your Responsibilities
As a Lead User Experience (UX) Designer for John Deere Financial, you will support projects of moderate and high complexity through the development of User Interaction task flows, wireframes, prototypes through to final production for new and existing products. As a lead designer, you are expected to mentor and provide feedback to junior members of our team.
In addition, you will:
- Be responsible for leading the UX designers
- Mentoring junior designers, working with stakeholders
- Developing deep relationships with product managers and agile teams
- Make strategic design and user-experience decisions in collaboration with UX Lead related to features and develop user-centered system requirements.
- Plan, coordinate, and perform UX interaction design and validation activities for a variety of projects of highly automated systems
- Create and maintain project and overall system design artifacts
VISA Sponsorship is NOT Available for this position
What Skills You Need
- Four or more years of experience planning, executing, and analyzing UX design projects
- Four or more years of visual interface design as applied to web and mobile
- Four or more years of experience applying User-Centered Design principles to complex interface problems
- Four or more years of experience working with cross-functional teams, such as: engineering, software development, marketing, and business leaders
- Three or more years of experience communicating research methodology, design concepts, data analysis, and test results to a broad range of stakeholders
- Three or more years of experience with technology and product development processes
- Good presentation skills
- Outside in thinking
- Ability to change context quickly and focus on multiple initiatives at once.
What Makes You Stand Out
- Experience in a finance setting
- Demonstrate ability to champion end user experience and to influence digital product designs across product areas
- Demonstrate experience in product discovery, design research and concept validation to inform experience definition and design concepts
- A strong portfolio of UI visual design, task flows, and designing to solve user problems
- Experience using UX metrics and a user-centered design process to provide insights to product engineering groups
- Experience applying design principles in terms of user flows, accessibility, visual hierarchy, and brand influence
- Demonstrated ability to utilize prototyping, user flows, storyboards and/or existing research to provide insights to design ahead of high-fidelity design delivery
Education
Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:
- BFA or similar work experience within UX
What You'll Get
At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive reward package to help you get started on your new career path, including:
- Flexible work arrangements
- Highly competitive base pay and performance bonuses
- Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Contribution)
- Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Tuition assistance
- Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
- Charitable contribution match
- Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use
$107,136.00 - $160,704.00 + Benefits
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The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.
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