Junior UX Designer
About The Position
FIDx is a fast-growing fintech focused on making retirement products easier to use. Its platforms simplify sales and management workflows for advisors, making annuities more accessible and manageable. As the company expands its platform to support additional distribution firms, insurance carriers, and product offerings, it is also investing in automation to improve quality and scalability. The Junior UX Designer will help create and improve user experiences across FIDx fintech products. The role focuses on designing intuitive, consistent, and accessible interfaces for complex software applications and supporting a unified design system across multiple platforms. The designer will work with a Senior UX Designer and collaborate with product, engineering, and QA teams throughout the design process, from research and early concepts through wireframes, high-fidelity designs, prototyping, and implementation. This is a hands-on opportunity to develop UX skills on a small, collaborative team and contribute to products used by financial professionals.
Requirements
- 0–3 years of experience in UX, UI, or product design.
- Proficiency in Figma, including components, auto layout, and interactive prototyping.
- Understanding of UX fundamentals, including user flows, information architecture, interaction design, and visual design.
- Familiarity with design systems and interest in creating consistent, reusable components.
- Strong attention to detail, particularly in layout, typography, spacing, and visual consistency.
- Ability to take feedback, iterate on designs, and explain design decisions.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a willingness to learn from others.
- A portfolio demonstrating UX thinking, problem-solving, and an understanding of user-centered design.
Nice To Haves
- Interest in emerging design tools, AI-assisted workflows, and new approaches to product design.
- Familiarity with fintech, financial services, or other regulated industries.
- Understanding of accessibility standards, such as WCAG.
- Experience working with established design systems and component libraries.
- Familiarity with developer handoff processes and basic front-end development concepts.
- Experience conducting or assisting with usability testing and user research.
Responsibilities
- Support UX design for complex software applications while balancing user needs, business goals, and technical requirements.
- Create wireframes, high-fidelity interface designs, and interactive prototypes using Figma.
- Help maintain and expand a unified design system across multiple platforms, ensuring consistency in components, patterns, and interactions.
- Work with a Senior UX Designer to explore design solutions, refine user workflows, and improve existing experiences.
- Translate product requirements and user feedback into clear, intuitive interface designs.
- Assist with user research and usability testing to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and QA teams to ensure designs are understood and accurately implemented.
- Apply UX principles, accessibility standards, and design best practices throughout the design process.
- Help document design decisions, component specifications, and interaction behaviors.
- Participate in design reviews, share ideas, and incorporate feedback to improve solutions.
- Contribute to improving team workflows, design documentation, and overall design consistency.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
