Principal Product Designer

Boston, MA, United States

Job Description:

Fidelity Labs is seeking an experienced and customer-focused Principal Product Designer to join a newly formed startup, looking to develop the next generation of financial products and services.

At Fidelity Labs, we don’t accept the status quo. We’re debating, experimenting, researching, teaching, and collaborating on new ideas to help people live better financial lives. We have dedicated multi-functional teams that operate like startups, but have the backing and resources of Fidelity to ensure that we are able to focus on the things that matter. Using a combination of ingenuity, and innovation methodologies, our startups take a customer-centric approach to problem solving, with a focus on rapid experimentation, and the permission to fail.

The Team

The Principal Product Designer is a key member of the startup, playing an important role in the strategy and development of new products through reciprocal concepting, wireframing, prototyping, and ultimately building clean, pixel-perfect UI to be developed and delivered to happy users.

This role calls for a strong individual contributor, equally as comfortable virtual whiteboarding and concepting with the team as new features are being developed as you are putting on headphones and cranking out appealing, intuitive UI design. As part of a tight-knit team charged with crafting new products and services, the Principal Product Designer is passionate about first understanding the needs of our customers, then helping to shape innovative solutions to address them. The ideal candidate is an effective communicator that loves what they do and brings a creative, dynamic, collaborative spirit to the office every day. With a proven attention to detail and a passion for advocating for the needs of the customer, they live for interactive design, have a strong individual work ethic with a maniacal attention to detail, strive to produce the work at the highest quality standards and absorb design knowledge and trends.

The Expertise You Have

BA/BS degree in graphic design, communication design, human-computer interaction, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Experience participating in the full product development lifecycle of web, mobile, and/or software applications

4-8 years of work experience in some combination of UI/UX roles, or similar role in a related field

The ability to reciprocally partner with peers (researchers, design directors, content strategists, product managers) to understand customer needs, motivations, and behaviors and translate them into deliverable tasks

Experience crafting design artifacts such as wireframes, interactive prototypes, and pixel-perfect design comps

Experience using style guides and component/pattern libraries in a detailed and consistent manner

Experience with Agile methodology and tools

Proven expertise with Figma, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Cloud

Experience facilitating user research and building detailed synthesis outputs

Experience with crypto, blockchain, and concepts surrounding decentralized finance a plus

The Skills You Bring

Good listening skills, with the ability to communicate design rationale to key partners outside of the design team (such as business, legal, technology teams)

Formal observation and facilitation of customer and user feedback sessions, contextual research, and usability tests

Ability to keep up in a fast-paced environment. Experience with Agile is not necessary, but a plus

Ability to self-manage time and tasks

A clean aesthetic

Solid attention to detail and a systematic approach to applying a design library

You demonstrate a clear and compelling design sense grounded in compassion and thoughtfulness

You demonstrate to others ‘how’ and ‘why’ design decisions are made

Ability to collaborate with engineering and technology partners to ensure that code is being built as designed during projects

You have a powerful impulse to improve existing designs, invent new experiences, and perform better than our competition

A consistent curiosity for implementing new design software and tools to help improve workflow

The Value You Deliver

Bringing business ideas to life, through sketching, wireframing, prototyping, designing and shipping products

Helping your team deliver valuable experiences to our customers

Facilitating and inspiring idea generation techniques

Sharing your expert knowledge with a design team that wants to develop their skills to be the best in the industry

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Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.

Join Us

At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry . Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to [email protected].

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