Design Systems Designer
Capco is a distinctly and positively different place to work. Much more than consultants, we are active participants in the global financial services industry. Our passionate business and technology professionals enjoy a unique environment where they are actively encouraged to apply intellect, innovation, experience and teamwork. We are dedicated to fully supporting our world class clients as they respond to challenges and opportunities in: Banking, Capital Markets, Finance Risk & Compliance, Insurance, and Wealth and Investment Management, and Energy. Experience Capco for yourself at capco.com
Let’s Talk About You
You want to Own Your Career. You want to work closely with our clients within Capco’s Innovation and Design practice to improve their user experience across customer and employee-facing apps and online platforms.
Let’s Get Down To Business
Capco is looking for Design Systems Designer with experience in the financial services industry to join our Innovation & Design practice. Any applicants must have extensive UX design and user experience testing reflected in their portfolio.
About the Role
As a Design Systems Designer, you will work hand-in-hand with technologists and analysts at Capco and our clients to create wireframes to map out framework of applications and create experiences that are competitive and user-friendly. When required, you will plan, conduct, and interpret primary and secondary design research data to inform the design direction of products, services, and experiences to ensure that user centred design principles are being applied. We collaborate constantly to share learnings and brainstorm solutions. You will also educate clients on the value of UX design and design research, and balance rigor with speed when delivering work.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with clients and the Innovation & Design team to improve the user experience for customers and employees
- Collaborate with specialists across different teams to deliver the best solutions for our clients.
- Brainstorm solutions to tough client problems, speaking up and sharing your knowledge
- Collaborate on and influence the different stages of a digital product—this includes shaping deliverable scope, contributing to internal and external strategy, designing the digital experience for the end-user
- Work closely with product and business teams, as well as other designers and researchers, to identify important experience design decisions
- Plan and facilitate collaborative workshops and work sessions with internal and external teams
- Design and execute user interviews and tests that address both user behavior and attitudes, using the right methodology for the right questions as needed
About You
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of industry experience in digital design role with Design Systems experience
- Ability to lead and mentor junior/intermediate UI/UX resources to ensure work is consistent, usable and on time.
- Strong online portfolio demonstrating a range of relevant work is essential.
- Previous experience building a design system and components
- Detail oriented, experience designing responsive has a genuine passion for design stems, who feels energized and creative when evolving and developing components and guidelines
- Improving processes and efficiencies: the ability to provide input that enhances workflows and helps maintain alignment across all business/platform partners (POs, PGOs, mod pod team)
- Balancing strategic thinking and hands-on execution: demonstrated ability to navigate between long term strategy needs and immediate project requirements, ensuring the work aligns with both
- Design and create reusable components in Figma that can be used across the platform.
- Collaborate with developers to ensure designs are technically feasible and align with the platform's needs and standards.
- Perform Design QA on final product implementations to ensure adherence to design specifications.
- Write and maintain clear, concise documentation to guide other designers in using the designs system components effectively.
- Publish and update design libraries in Figma to ensure that components are readily accessible for all team members.
- Ensure that all new components meet WCAG standards for accessibility, promoting inclusivity and usability across the platform.
Nice to have
- Experience working with large-scale data in mixed-method studies
- Working knowledge of statistics and experimental design
- Fluent with French language
- Experience in the financial services industry
Professional experience is important. But it’s paramount you share our belief in disruptive innovation that puts clients ahead in a tough market. From Day One, your key skill will be to perceive new and better ways of doing things to give your clients an unfair advantage.
Now Take the Next Step
If you’re looking forward to progressing your career with us, then we’re looking forward to receiving your application.
Capco is well known for its thought leadership and client-centric model that distinguishes it from other consulting firms. Capco’s strong technology and digital knowledge base, it’s global experience of the Financial Service enables us to deliver projects from strategy through to delivery. We are committed to providing new areas of expertise from which our clients will greatly benefit.
We have:
- Access to industry-focused talent globally
- Ability to leverage best-of-breed, innovative products and solutions for complex architecture and large-scale transformation
- Extended global geographic market reach
- Ability to capitalize on our client footprint and deep domain expertise within financial services
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