JD-Design System PO - UI Designer

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

The UX Designer will work closely with the project teams to lead the design, orchestration and communication of design initiatives with the front office and other business stakeholders. Successful candidates have hands-on experience to drive design topics for small, medium and large projects, for an audience of hundreds of business colleagues.

YOUR CHALLENGE

Design System, UI Design

• Working with Figma as our central design tool
• Create ‘ready for handover to development’ UI components and patterns
• Lead the central Design System team in Julius Baer
• Strong focus on enabling structures for the team to perform optimally
• Define, maintain and prioritise the Design System backlog for the enterprise, navigate competing interests of decentral teams consuming the central design system
• Manage team priorities and workload: Allocate tasks, set deadlines, and monitor progress to ensure the team delivers high-quality results
• Experience with Desktop and Mobile designs, including: Native design for iOS and Android platforms, as well as web-based applications. You should be familiar with designing for different screen sizes, resolutions, and devices
• Native design for iOS and Android platforms, as well as web-based applications. You should be familiar with designing for different screen sizes, resolutions, and devices
• Shape the Design System vision and strategy for the future and articulate it masterfully to management stakeholders (non-design experts)
• Communicate design system value and benefits: Educate stakeholders, product teams, and external partners about the design system’s advantages and impact
• Close involvement of key stakeholders, keep consuming parties (management level and operational level involved and informed)
• Continuously improve the Design System with new features (current pipeline: AG Grid, UX Writing, Mobile Responsiveness, Theming, and much more)
• Release management: Communicate changes to stakeholders, ensure backward compatibility, and provide support during transitions
• Support design team with creating ‘ready for handover to development’ UI components and patterns in Figma
• Understanding of front-end development: Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and how they interact with design elements
• Branding Knowledge: Understanding of brand identity and guidelines, including typography, colour, imagery, and tone of voice
• Nice to have: Coding skills: Proficiency in coding languages like CSS, or JavaScript

Regulatory Responsibilities &/OR Risk Management

• Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations

RANK APPLICABLE TO THE POSITION

• Director

YOUR PROFILE

Professional and Technical

• Prior work experience: minimum 3 years in a large organisation or in a leading design agency/consultancy with enterprise scale clients
• Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design
• Strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Excellent communication skills to translate design expert topics in an understandable fashion for management
• Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
• Experience in a highly Agile/scrum environment
• Good understanding of software development processes

Personal and Social

• Be easy-to-work with. “can do” attitude
• Excellent stakeholder management skills. Ability to articulate your ideas clearly
• Strong conceptual, analytical and problem solving skills, as well as defining concrete deliverables
• Ability to think pragmatically and drive execution of concepts. Analyse, prioritize, resolve issues and take decisions during challenging times

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