Senior UI/UX Designer (contract)

We are seeking a senior UI/UX Designer to join our team for a 6-month contract to hire opportunity with BNY Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA! If you have 6+ years of UI/UX design experience and you're currently leading a team with concept creation, user interface designs, wireframes, storyboards, and prototypes please apply today! Responsibilities... • Perform and provide guidance and technical expertise for complex user experience activities including user research, testing, interactive design, and visual design. • Lead user research, usability testing, surveys, interviews, work studies, and heuristic evaluations. • Review documentation of research findings presented to product and development teams. • Review new and modified user personas. • Actively participate in and provide guidance for the creation of concepts, information architecture, user interface designs, wireframes, storyboards, prototypes, and specifications to meet project schedules. • Lead the implementation of visual styles that support platform branding to increase user effectiveness. • Interpret user feedback and insights to improve the user experience. • Serve as a reviewer of usability activities and artifacts to ensure software applications meet customer expectations for use. • Provide UX expertise to the product definition and evaluation process utilizing multiple sources of information (field work, interviews, internet, intranet, market data/literature). • Independently perform and lead the creation and updating of user interface and visual design guidelines and standards. • Advocate for the user experience across the firm and facilitate training for groups outside the UX team. • Ensure that the developed/revised product achieves the user's specified goals by establishing user-centered analysis, design, best practices, and standards. • Contribute to the achievement of area objectives. Qualifications: • 6+ years of UI/UX experience at enterprise level in agile environment • 6+ years of Figma experience • Minimum of 3 years of experience leading technical product designs, prototypes, storyboards, and wireframes • Previous project experience using Figjam and Miro required • Hands on experience with Jira preferred • Bachelor's degree in psychology, user experience, design, human computer interaction or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required