UX Designer

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:

At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you're trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That's why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Design low to high-fidelity comps to communicate user flows and interactions in the application.
• Create or use existing design system guide(s) to ensure consistent design language is used throughout the application(s).
• Design high-fidelity comps and other design assets to be used to present to clients and share with developers for implementation.
• Strong visual design skills are a must. Aesthetics not only make our products more attractive, but also improves their function, usability, and ability to communicate.
• Passion for the details. We need a detailed-oriented designer that thinks through use cases, edge cases, and provides clear, consistent design direction to our development teams.
• Run design critique sessions utilizing Design Thinking exercises (i.e., User Journey, User Personas, etc.). Be ready to present your work in an organized way for your team and clients to be able to see the user flow and provide feedback. Also, take the critique to revise and deliver an updated design to the team promptly.
• Expert in design software (Figma, Adobe XD, or similar).
• Research and stay up-to-date on UI research and industry standards and trends to create tools that follow modern UI guidelines
• Be a great team player, experienced in working with agile teams. Ability to collaborate closely with cross-functional Business Units within Crowe.
• Strong communication skills: able to explain design concepts equally well to other designers, developers, and clients.

Skills:

• Communication - Communicates with organization. Helps others in team to communicate. Able to explain design concepts equally well to other designers, developers, and clients.
• Initiative - Uses your own judgment to make decisions without asking another person's advice.
• Objectivity & Adaptability - Takes problems outside your skillset and quickly adapts to solve them. Helps peers do the same.
• Empathy & Humility - Constantly pushes for a better understanding of the needs and perspectives of those outside your viewpoint. Makes sound decisions keeping customer in the forefront.
• Growth Mindset - Actively looks for opportunities to try and learn new things. Hungry to try new tools and techniques or try new areas of the business to test yourself.
• Breaking Down Complexity - Comfortable in larger, more complex problem spaces. Simplifies complexity both on their own and when explaining to others.
• Business Context - Understands how the business works and the goals of your team. Relates that to your own work.
• Design Vision - Able to articulate why the product exists, where it's going and how to get there on a high level. Has been involved in future-thinking projects, and contributed to efforts to bring the results to life.
• Systems Thinking - Actively designs features according to the requirements of future projects, and looks for efficiency through shared components and patterns.
• User Focus - Actively organizes for teams around them to participate in user-focused development, advocating for the user at all stages.
• Visual Design - Defines and improves the styling and experience of their product set. Leads and guides others work, with effective critique.
• Culture and Togetherness - Is conscious of signaling and tries to act as you expect other team members to act. Works to develop good positive relationships. Participates in team activities.
• Stakeholder Management - Known for being efficient and reliable, and doing what you say you will do. Proactively manages expectations even when it results in frustration or personal reputation risk.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Communications, or equivalent experience
• 3 - 7 years of relevant experience
• Exceptional understanding of UX best practices and visual design, and experience with SaaS or complex enterprise applications
• Strong facilitation and collaboration abilities, and a flexible and friendly approach to working with teams
• Experience working with an Agile mindset, values, and principles
• Proficient with design tools (i.e., Figma, Adobe XD, etc.)
• Exposure to JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Technology certification, a plus
• A design portfolio

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe's values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

Our Benefits:
Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great peopleare what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe:
Crowe (www.crowe.com) is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

Crowe LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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