Director of Product Design

Director of Product Design
New York, NY

Company Description
Harness Wealth is dedicated to helping individuals effectively unlock financial opportunity to achieve their best financial future. We provide clients with sophisticated insights, financial tools and benchmarks as well as access to a network of highly curated Financial Advisers, CPAs, and Trust & Estate Attorneys, which we pair with clients using our proprietary algorithm. Our founders have previously scaled large tech companies and we are backed by leading investors, including Bain Capital Ventures and Marc Benioff. Our insights have been featured on CNBC, Fast Company, Forbes and Reuters.
 
Opportunity for Impact 
As Director of Product Design you will drive product design strategy and shape the user experiences of Harness Wealth’s clients. Your work will include the creation of experience maps, user scenarios, visual design and the testing & validation to ensure our products achieve their business goals. 

Roles and Responsibilities 
  • Collaborating and communicating professionally with clients and internal teams.
  • Creating rapid prototypes to validate design concepts with stakeholders and customers.
  • Designing user-experiences from low-fidelity sketches to hi-fidelity mockups.
  • Highly detailed communication of design principles + direction, as well as design specifications to engineers
  • Developing interactive reporting dashboards and different types of visualizations.
  • Validating ideas and designs using split A/B tests and product performance testing.
  • Measuring recently released product features to establish benchmarks and to identify potential areas of improvement with the customer experience to improve performance.
  • Staying abreast of UX trends and looking for creative ideas and inspiration in analogous products.
 
Professional Qualifications 
  • A minimum of five years of UX or interaction design experience; experience with responsive web design.
  • Proven well-designed examples of responsive grid-based layouts. Strong work portfolio that demonstrates systematic and creative design thinking as well as a deep understanding of UI/UX best practices.
  • Strong ability to recognize and predict use cases and user interaction.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to manage time effectively across projects and competing priorities, meet agreed upon deadlines, and be accountable for work.
  • Experience in working with a cross-functional team or large-scale software development lifecycle primarily in agile methodologies.
  • Portfolio examples that clearly showcase your capabilities within the above areas.
  • Bachelor degree in related field with IxD degrees a plus.
  • Preference for exposure operating within the financial services domain.
  • Preference for experience building marketplace products with a focus on supply / demand dynamics. 

 Personal Characteristics 
  • Highly effective at creating collaborative relationships across an entire organization. 
  • You thrive within scrappy and entrepreneurial environments, with a drive to get things done.
  • Take ownership and initiative with little oversight. 
  • An entrepreneur who sees ambiguity as opportunity, and obstacles as chances to build. 
  • Results orientation with a strong work ethic. Must be tenacious, with the emotional intelligence to know when to push harder and when to look for alternative approaches 

Harness Wealth is an equal opportunity employer.


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