UX Design Senior Associate
Posted on: 9 Sep 2022
Reston, VA
Job Description
The Impact You Will Make
As a valued colleague on our team, you will provide expert advice on identifying and innovating tools, products and processes, to support internal initiatives and project teams. In this role, you will recommend changes to scope and delivery of design projects.
The Experience You Bring to the Team
The Marketing and Communications – UX Design - Senior Associate role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:
Provide insight into design principles and creative methods to solve complex enterprise problems and achieve business objectives.
Lead the discovery, synthesis, ideation, design, and testing of new experiences, products, and tools.
Uncover user needs utilizing design research (e.g., user interviews, contextual inquiry, ethnography, etc.) to develop user-driven insights and inform new design concepts.
Work cross-functionally (i.e., with product management, researchers, developers, and design teams) to identify pain points and areas for improvement.
Ensure the needs of the user, customer, or other actor are included in the product vision, strategy, and roadmap planning.
Qualifications
Minimum Required Experiences
4-6 years in a UX Design role
Desired Experiences
Bachelor degree or equivalent
Skills
Skilled in creating visual concepts and designs (wireframes, high-res prototypes, user flows, etc.)
Product Development including designing products, developing product roadmaps, translating design requirements, etc.
Experience gathering information to recommend solutions and develop concepts
Skilled at Information Retrieval including fact gathering, synthesizing research, focus groups and interviews, etc.
Product Testing including testing and evaluating software, usability testing, UAT, and using relevant product testing technology
Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
The group of skills related to Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
Managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, etc.
Adept at managing project plans, resources, and people to ensure successful project completion
Tools
Skilled in design tools including Figma, Sketch, InVision, etc.
Skilled in using Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Premier Pro, InDesign, Illustrator, Adobe XD, and Acrobat DC
Experience using collaboration tools like Mural, Miro, etc.
Experience using SharePoint
Fannie Mae
Washington, DC
Federal National Mortgage Association provides a source of liquidity to the mortgage market and supports the availability and affordability of housing in the United States. It securitizes mortgage loans originated by lenders into Fannie Mae mortgage-backed securities (Fannie Mae MBS). The company operates in two segments, Single-Family and Multifamily. The Single-Family segment securitizes and purchases single-family fixed-rate or adjustable-rate, first-lien mortgage loans, or mortgage-related securities backed by these loans; and loans that are insured by Federal Housing Administration, loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Rural Development Housing and Community Facilities Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, manufactured housing mortgage loans, and other mortgage-related securities. This segment also provides single-family mortgage, as well as credit risk and loss management services.
The Multifamily segment securitizes multifamily mortgage loans into Fannie Mae MBS; purchases multifamily mortgage loans; and provides credit enhancement for bonds issued by state and local housing finance authorities to finance multifamily housing. This segment also issues structured MBS backed by Fannie Mae multifamily MBS; buys and sells multifamily agency mortgage-backed securities; and offers delegated underwriting and servicing, as well as multifamily mortgage, and credit risk and loss management services. The company serves mortgage banking companies, savings and loan associations, savings banks, commercial banks, credit unions, community banks, specialty servicers, insurance companies, and state and local housing finance agencies. Federal National Mortgage Association was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.
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IndustryBanking/Financial Services
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No. of Employees7,400
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