UX/UI Designer advanced

Contract Duration : 12 months Working Hour: Normal Office Hour Working Location: Central Salary: Up to $11,000 **Responsibilities** - Leading overall UI standards/patterns effort towards a unified design language (with our Creative Director and a program manager) - Mentoring junior designers & interns - Helping enforce (with our VP of Design & CD) a robust design quality for our products & concepts, with feedback sessions - Fostering a culture of "design criticism" - Evangelizing good design practices / values at cross-team meetings - Engaging with execs (including the CEO) on design reviews - Leading or assisting "innovation workshops" with product teams - Providing the intellectual basis of design discussions (principles, themes, values) - Engaging with "dysfunctional" products that need a leader to shape a design vision (ie, "firedrills") - Leading co-sponsored projects with academia - ..and yes, still push pixels with hi-fidelity visual comps - Work closely with stakeholders across multiple product teams to clearly define and prioritize user research questions, then outline and schedule research plans. - Determine user needs by conducting task-focused analyses. Must have hands on knowledge of the end to end research process. - Able to co-ordinate and prioritize research conducted internally and through external vendors. - Synthesise and evangelise research findings to diverse audiences through creative and actionable written reports and oral presentations. - Seek and review potential external research partners and manage existing relationships. - Stay informed and in tune with the latest developments within User Research - methodologies, best practices, trends etc. - Build upon the existing framework for user research conducted within the bank and the associated metrics to benchmark business impact. - Play a senior role in the delivery outstanding experiences and results, working collaboratively within a cross-disciplinary team that includes UX, visual design, and content. - Play a central role in the execution of customer inquiries for a product or experience, helping to conduct sessions, analyze feedback, and identify needs and insights to inform or evolve DBS experience. - Deliver high fidelity schematics, workflows, interaction storyboards, and design deliverables that guide creative, content, and development efforts. - Confidently present design decisions to teams and stakeholders, articulating and rationalizing needs against user insights and business goals. - Contribute to DBS’s UX discipline and community, adopting core approaches and tools, helping identify challenges and solutions, and enabling a fertile creative environment. - Maintain an awareness of industry and UX trends, sharing with peers and the broader community and leveraging them within the design lifecycle **Requirements**: - At least 6+ years of hands on experience in User Research and Usability Testing/Analysis, Interface Design, Interaction Design, or Information Architecture. - Must be organized, able to work with mínimal supervision, flexible to switch rapidly between different projects and manage them in a timely manner. - Ability to think strategically and develop creative solutions to research challenges. - Working knowledge of data-logging tools such as Morae and Tobii etc. - Proficiency in qualitative and quantitative data analysis, usability testing, eye tracking, testing across desktop, tablet and mobile interfaces, card sorting, survey evaluation, A/B and multivariate testing, and heuristic evaluations. - Superior verbal and written presentation skills to communicate clear, concise findings and actionable recommendations to designers, technologists, project managers and executives. - Experience with financial domains is helpful but not required. - A strong portfolio or work samples showcasing UX prowess, creativity, and depth of thought - A clean design aesthetic; an aptitude and honed intuition for tasteful designs that are visually engaging - A general knowledge of how design impacts engineering and vice versa - Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills; the ability to communicate complex interaction concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization - An experienced do-er in one or more of the following creative disciplines: Design Research, Visual Design, Interaction Design - Passionate and curious about the cultural and socio-economic changes many Asian markets are going through, and the creative opportunities they present - Committed to a multi-disciplinary, research - and strategy-driven, customer-centric approach to design and innovation. - Working knowledge of technology mediums, including a combination of Web 2.0, CSS3, HTML5, mobile OS, etc., including an awareness of the relative strengths and weaknesses of each. - Awareness of adaptive and responsive techniques (preferably hands-on) - Proven ability to work hand in hand