Manager, UX Design
Are you ready to build the future of our company?
About Mercury® Financial
Mercury® Financial is an innovative and growing financial services company with locations in both Austin, TX and Wilmington, DE. Our mission is to help customers build and maintain their financial future by offering them credit cards they can afford and understand. After only a few years, we’ve had great success building a significant credit card program, but we are aiming higher, which means we have lots of challenging problems for you to help us solve. Come onboard, work with some of the most talented individuals who thrive on collaboration and teamwork, and help us continue to build something special.
Location
Mercury® Financial is headquartered in the progressive and entrepreneurial tech hub of Austin, Texas. Our physical location is situated in a beautiful park like setting called the Domain. The Domain's ideal location and exceptional amenities, amazing restaurant selection, convenient parking are all perfect for after work happy hours!
What it’s like to work here:
We foster a collaborative and innovative culture where you will be empowered to do your best work. All of our employees bring everything they have to their job and are part of a larger team working towards a greater goal. We do right by our employees, our partners, and our customers.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead the design team with planning, prioritizing, and overseeing initiatives; manage project initiatives; ensure that all designs are executed on time and at the highest quality levels; manage and scope team initiatives, set priorities, and direct the team to ensure timely delivery
- Create the vision for developing, communicating, and implementing user experiences for multiple products across native and web platforms; follow through with the processes and tactics to implement the vision
- Lead a team of designers to create viable, feasible, and desirable products in a team environment
- Guide teams to understand customers and their needs through market analysis, customer research, usability research, and customer feedback
- Coach a team of designers on design principles and standards with business requirements to assist in developing use cases and high-level design requirements
- Collaborate with senior leaders from Product Management, Marketing, and Engineering
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of direct people management
- 8+ years of design experience
- Experience leading design teams in problem definition, artifact rendering, cross-functional collaboration and delivery, and user validation and measurement
- Experience designing responsive web or native mobile applications
- Experience developing cross-functional relationships with product, consumer research and marketing teams to develop strategy and consumer insights that drive compelling creative executions
- Experience with a variety of design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, and Figma
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, or related field
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading a team in establishing and utilizing a scalable Design Language System (DLS) for creating and managing reusable components and design patterns
- Experience implementing design principles and processes, including UX strategy, visual hierarchy, color theory, typography, illustrations and interaction design
- Provide guidance and training to team members on design best practices, user research methodologies, interaction design, and UX frameworks
- Experience in omni-channel marketing, search engine marketing or search engine optimization
- Experience with annual brand and media planning
- Master's degree in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, or related field
Why you’ll like working here:
This isn’t a place where you will fill a seat and keep your head down. This is a place where everybody is expected to help build something. This is a place where you can be involved and lead in your areas of expertise. So, how much do you believe in yourself? If you believe in your skills, in your drive and determination, we’ll give you the resources and room to show the world what you can do. Here are just a few of the benefits we offer:
- Employer insurance coverage for employee & dependents
- Life insurance
- 401K with generous employer match
- Wellness program
- Monthly Company Events
Mercury® Financial is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability