Platform Solutions-Associate-UX Design-Richardson, TX

Job Description

About the Platform Solutions Division:

In Platform Solutions, we power clients with innovative and customer-centered financial products. We bring the best qualities of a technology player and combine that with the best attributes of a large bank. Platform Solutions is comprised of four main businesses, underpinned by engineering, operations and risk management:

• Transaction Banking, a cash management and payments platform for clients building a corporate treasury system
• Enterprise Partnerships, consumer financial products that companies embed directly within their ecosystems to better serve their end customers
• Merchant Point-of-Sale Lending, a platform that provides custom credit financing for home improvement merchants to offer directly to their customers
• ETF Accelerator, a platform for clients to launch, list and manage exchange-traded funds

Join us on our journey to deliver financial products and platforms that prioritize the customer and developer experience.

About this Opportunity:

As an experienced, hands-on designer, you bring expertise across the entire spectrum of human-centered design which includes: User Interface Design, Interactive Design, Ecosystem, Journey and User Flow Mapping, Information Architecture, UX Research and Testing, Usability and Accessibility knowledge.

In addition, it's critical to know visual identity/branding principles, style, and design system management, bringing together industry best practices, advancements in trends, emerging patterns, and their applicability to our products. Love for UI guidelines and design systems drive your ability to grow and evolve this space over time, helping to shape elegantly simple, and intuitive solutions.

With an eye for detail, this Design Associate will help evolve the high standards of creativity and innovation, raising the bar, so other team members do the same. The best candidate for this position, rolls up their sleeves and brings design to life, while partnering with the business to ensure every approach and process is primed for success.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver world-class user experiences while working on a multi-disciplinary team to bring them to life, contributing to the creative future of our products
• Advocate for clean, simple user-centered interfaces
• Produce polished industry-leading visual designs for digital applications
• Engage in proactive problem solving and identify specific issues based on agent feedback
• Convert requirements by product managers and business stakeholders into a unified design specification
• Work with existing design systems and brand guidelines to create compelling visual assets and design solutions
• Assist in defining design styles and standards, documenting design system changes, and maintaining design system library
• Work with a team on cracking complex problems and crafting them into elegantly simple, intuitive designs with an eye for the detail

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of product design experience
• Experience in user-centered interface design and visual design
• Experience/aptitude in UX design (ability to conceptualize and create designs in the context of complex user journeys)
• Experience conducting, interpreting, and applying qualitative and quantitative research studies to designs
• A track record of designing products that have been shipped (concept work is not sufficient)
• Knowledge of UI design conventions across web and mobile platforms
• Good working command of Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience delivering work within an established design system
• Experience working in an agile framework
• Strong capabilities in overall visual composition: typography, spacing, placement, hierarchy and creating consistent affordances that enhance usability and result in a delightful product
• A clean design aesthetic and the ability to simplify the complex
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively
• Ability to create animations or motion prototypes to aid the development process
• (Preferred) An understanding of the fundamentals of conversation and experience design for voice applications
• (Preferred) Experience designing for Financial Services or other data-intensive products

About Goldman Sachs:

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process.