Job Description

We are looking for a talented and experienced Visual Designer with a strong foundation in user experience, interaction design, and visual design. We are looking for someone with experience in financial services, but this is not essential if you have other experience to bring.

This is a great role for an energetic, confident, and bold person with experience in exploring digital propositions and designing engaging products on both web and mobile. This includes information design, interaction, and data visualisation. Someone who can push boundaries and take design risks, supported by research, solid rationale, and a supportive team.

You will need to be a conceptual thinker who can approach a project holistically, looking at the bigger commercial and customer experience view, and questioning to uncover the real opportunity and proposition in each challenge. You will bring your ideas to life through storytelling and turning them into fully designed digital solutions.

Responsibilities include:

• Work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, product designers, technologists and business experts to create new products and services.
• Having a deep understanding of the business drivers behind the product goals.
• Partner with leads and stakeholders to identify visual design directions.
• Understand wider design application including brand, experience and implementation.
• Base decisions on solid visual design principles and customer data.
• Creating and delivering high-quality visual design outcomes like mood boards, concepts, visual UI layouts, components and style guides.
• Deliver visual design outcomes to stakeholders in a timely manner and efficient execution.
• Proactively contribute to Design Systems.
• Working closely with leads to ensure deliverables are consistent with the brand and Design Systems.
• Working closely with other disciplines to understand and provide feedback to design context.
• Providing accurate estimation of tasks and help with prioritization.
• Present visual design and communicate work to team members and stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Experience in visual design required, experience at client side is beneficial.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating a deep understanding of visual design for digital products and services.
• Understand the theory and fundamentals of visual design (layout, typography colour, iconography) and how to put them into practice.
• Experience in creating visual design using input from user research, competitor analysis, business requirements and brand.
• Effective communication of visual design solutions across roles & levels.
• Awareness and practical understanding of current technologies, and their application and relevance to digital experiences.
• Solid communication and interpersonal skills that aid in the presentation of designs and design rationale to team members and stakeholders.
• Ability to follow design guidelines, systems and other best practices as well as production knowledge of the delivery process.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, team-oriented, cross-functional environment.
• Actively listens, hears and understands what is said and not said, and with nuanced comprehension of meaning and intent.
• Develops and sustains effective and cooperative working relationships with peers, managers and other internal or external stakeholders.
• Passionate about user centred design. You have experience designing and/or implementing solutions for consumer-focused products/services. Financial services experience is a plus.
• Flexibility/adaptability (ability to change direction based upon team and stakeholder consensus).
• In depth knowledge and experience using creative tools such as Adobe CC and Figma.
• Experience in the Atlassian suite of software (Jira & Confluence) is desirable.
• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Graphic Design or related field or equivalent professional experience.

If this sounds like an interesting opportunity to you, let\xe2\x80\x99s chat!

About Us:

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world\xe2\x80\x99s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants\xe2\x80\x99 and employees\xe2\x80\x99 religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

About The Team:

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we\xe2\x80\x99re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

The Digital team is dedicated to creating innovative, industry-leading products and experiences that help customers access, share and control their financial data so they can make smart decisions with their money. Teams enable innovation while adhering to the firm\xe2\x80\x99s data sharing principles of security, customer control and convenience, and privacy.

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