Principal Lead- User Experience Designer

Principal Lead – User Experience Designer, Work closely with user experience (UX) designers and other design specialists. Ensure a consistent and effective user experience (UX) within projects.
Actively contribute to development and management of journey maps and service blueprints. Work with junior members on the team, building a strong UX culture and mentoring designers into creating effective, usable and satisfying experience. Provides direction, mentorship to junior designers, conduct reviews to ensure we stay on course, are effective, powerful, engaging and rewarding by taking a user centered design approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead & Manage the design of experiences during the implementation phase of the project, including the development of wireframes, mock-ups and other project deliverables to illustrate the intended user experience.
• Assembling, modifying, extending design component library, consulting with designers on their design pattern library needs and guide their decision making.
• Design interactive user interfaces and ensuring that a layout will work well across a range of different screen sizes.
• Present design ideas, including rationale based on research and best practices, to the product development team and other key stakeholders.
• Participate in peer design reviews/critique, giving and receiving constructive feedback.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required.
• 10-14 years of relevant experience required.
• Strong understanding of the UX Design Process, Usability, Heuristics and design fundamentals such as color theory, composition, branding, typography and web design standards.
• Demonstrated people leadership and art direction experience.
• Demonstrated experience with ideation and creation of UI design deliverables: Sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, lo-fi and hi-fi layouts, prototypes, etc.
• Experience working with industry standard visualization tools and software (e.g. Sketch, Figma, Invision etc.).
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, including the ability to clearly articulate creative concepts and rationale.
• Ability to work in both waterfall and agile project processes.
• Experience designing transactional or complex interactions for B2C platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience building patterns and components for a design system.
• Proven experience in presenting and defending designs with stakeholders.
• Experience in strategic contributions to product design Storytelling abilities
• 9+ years of broad experience of designing highly complex web sites and software applications from a UX standpoint.
• Experience building a design system, design tokens, components, patterns, etc.
• Ability to interpret product requirements documents from a UX/UCD perspective.

Additional Qualification

• Demonstrated ability to raise issues and concerns and see them through to completion.

About Our Company
Ameriprise India LLP has been providing client based financial solutions to help clients plan and achieve their financial objectives for 125 years. We are a U.S. based financial planning company headquartered in Minneapolis with a global presence. The firm’s focus areas include Asset Management and Advice, Retirement Planning and Insurance Protection. Be part of an inclusive, collaborative culture that rewards you for your contributions and work with other talented individuals who share your passion for doing great work. You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to make your mark at the office and a difference in your community. So if you're talented, driven and want to work for a strong ethical company that cares, take the next step and create a career at Ameriprise India LLP.

Ameriprise India LLP is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, marital status, family status or any other basis prohibited by law.

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