UI/UX Designer [AQ-23095]

Aquent is proud to partner with a leading company in the financial services sector, renowned for its unwavering commitment to creating exceptional client experiences. This organization empowers millions of individuals to make informed decisions about their financial lives, driven by a culture of care, trust, and collaboration. Join a team where your work directly impacts client success and contributes to shaping the future of digital financial services, transforming complex challenges into scalable solutions across web and mobile platforms.

Unleash Your Design Vision as a UI/UX Designer! Are you an experienced, collaborative, and adaptable design professional ready to make a significant impact? This is your incredible opportunity to join a dynamic User Experience team and help define digital product experiences that are not only useful, consistent, and modern but also distinctly aligned with our partner’s commitment to excellence. In this pivotal individual contributor role, you will independently lead projects from initial problem definition through to execution. Your work will directly influence how millions of clients interact with their financial lives, ensuring thoughtful and intuitive experiences that empower them to feel more informed and confident. Be at the forefront of innovation, shaping the digital landscape and making a tangible difference!

What You’ll Do

• Improve digital experiences through thoughtful interaction design, experience standards, and product execution.
• Translate client and business needs into scalable product experiences, interaction models, visual frameworks, and reusable patterns.
• Create future-state concepts and strategic design visions that guide the long-term evolution of the digital ecosystem.
• Design and influence experiences across desktop, mobile web, and native mobile platforms, respecting the unique strengths and conventions of each.
• Identify opportunities to modernize experiences while upholding quality, accessibility, trust, and consistency.
• Explore thoughtful applications of AI-enabled experiences, conversational interfaces, and emerging interaction models.
• Define problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and propose solutions that balance client needs, business goals, experience quality, and technical considerations.
• Own the delivery of your work, proactively addressing challenges and keeping partners aligned from early exploration through implementation.

How You’ll Make An Impact This role is critical in responding to rapidly changing client expectations, particularly with the rise of mobile experiences, personalization, AI, and new interaction models. You will be instrumental in connecting client needs, business priorities, product strategy, and experience design into a clear and scalable vision for what comes next. You’ll thrive in a creative and supportive environment, working alongside passionate designers and content strategists dedicated to client success. Your contributions will include:

• Partnering closely with Experience Design, Product, Engineering, Research, Content, and other cross-functional teams to drive cohesive solutions.
• Building trust through clear communication, transparency, accountability, and consistent follow-through.
• Facilitating design reviews, consultations, and workshops that enhance the work and foster shared understanding across teams.
• Utilizing research, analytics, client feedback, and astute design judgment to guide critical decisions.
• Constructively questioning assumptions and helping teams discover better, more innovative paths forward.
• Acting as a trusted advisor, influencing direction through strong rationale, compelling storytelling, prototypes, and impactful examples.
• Supporting and mentoring other designers, sharing your invaluable knowledge and embracing continuous learning from your peers.

We are seeking a designer who is comfortable navigating between the big picture and the smallest interaction details, bringing clarity to ambiguity, and driving solutions that empower clients to feel more informed and confident about their financial lives.

Required Qualifications

• 6 to 10 years of UX design experience focused on digital products, or equivalent experience.
• At least 1 year of UX experience designing touch-based mobile interfaces.
• An online portfolio that demonstrates design thinking and high-quality solutions.
• Experience across the user-centered design process, incl…