Our Mission:
Northwestern Mutual has 160 years of history providing financial security to millions of people. Continuing that tradition means changing to meet the needs of our clients and financial advisors. We are a strong, innovative, and growing company that invests in people who care and make a positive impact. The Design team leads the way by creating human, simple, and engaging products to help people plan, track, and protect their financial goals.
What's the Role?
- Thinking through sophisticated features and flows, balancing user needs and business needs, and making the sophisticated feel simple.
- Understanding of comprehensive experience design as digital, physical, and human design.
- Working under the direction of a more senior UX designer, while still having ownership over your work.
- Following an iterative design process to ideate and validate design ideas.
- Understanding established design patterns and knowing when to follow them and when to break them.
- Understanding how to leverage qualitative and quantitative research insights to advise design decisions, and how to craft an MVP with a longer-term vision in mind.
- This role is expected to report in-person to our NYC (Manhattan) campus
What You'll Need!
- To be a self-starter who is user-focused, detailed, and solutions-oriented.
- Basic knowledge of the fundamentals of user-centered design, visual design, brand development, and how products and services work together.
- An utmost passion for understanding the user, and a solid communicator of the user's perspective throughout the design process.
- An understanding that UX is more than just UI, but includes all user-centered design activities from research, concepting, flows, sitemaps wireframes, prototypes, annotations, and more.
- Solid understanding of design and prototyping tools, such as Photoshop, Figma, Illustrator, Invision and anything else needed to get the job done.
- A strong online portfolio available for viewing.
What We Offer!
Tuition reimbursement, paid time off, paid volunteer days, and caregiver time off. Highly competitive compensation that includes base salary plus bonus Medical/Dental/Vision plans, 401(k) and company pension program
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$84,560.00
Pay Range - End:
$120,800.00
Please note that this is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Pleas e click here for additi onal information relating to location-based pay structures.
