UX Product Designer - Encore Program

UX Product Designer for Deloitte's Encore Program within the DT-US Product Engineering team, focusing on design strategy, user-centered experiences, and hands-on visual and interaction design in a lean UX, cross-functional setting.

Details

• Location: Austin, TX (onsite)
• Salary: USD 97,000 - 200,000 per year
• Minimum experience: 8 years
• Education: Degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Own design and usability for a product or product area, and be accountable for outcomes.
• Align the product with a broader product experience vision.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to craft engaging and intuitive user experiences using an iterative lean UX approach.
• Lead teams in framing and solving complex experience problems.
• Drive innovative UX efforts that reveal new user value and novel experiences.
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops to surface insights and ideas.
• Contribute expertise in the Experience craft within the cross-functional product team, tackling complex challenges with effective and elegant solutions.
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core and new functions and features.
• Develop new approaches to design problems and communicate them through presentations, mockups, and click-through prototypes.
• Create strategic big-picture workflows while delivering detailed visual and interaction design.
• Partner with user researchers and influence studies to uncover unresolved interface problems and opportunities.
• Design and deliver all UX assets, including concept designs, user flows, wireframes, usage scenarios, journeys, and mockups.
• Balance business priorities with user needs to craft impactful experiences.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, engineering, product, and delivery teams to align solutions with strategy and KPI outcomes.
• Contribute to the overall design framework, ensuring consistent design language and a reusable design asset library.
• Engage hands-on in Experience craft modeling within project work.
• Conduct heuristic evaluations to identify improvement opportunities in existing products.
• Uphold high standards of user-centered design, iterating quickly and testing for usability and consistency across touchpoints.
• Continuously assess design effectiveness, monitor behavioral analytics, and propose refinements to optimize experiences.
• Operate effectively in collaborative UX teams or autonomously as the sole UX designer on a product squad.
• Share knowledge and improvements within the Experience vertical community of practice.
• Stay current with emerging UX trends and best practices.

Requirements

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and high-quality work
• Able to build and sustain professional relationships
• Experience leading projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to mentor others and provide clear guidance
• 8+ years as an interaction or product designer with a proven record of crafting intuitive interfaces
• Expertise in Design Thinking, Lean UX, and iterative design with ongoing user testing
• Comfort working in a Product-led, empowered cross-functional squad to deliver business impact
• Deep understanding of interactive design principles, delivering simple, elegant, and usable interfaces
• Extensive experience designing for desktop and mobile with responsive and adaptive approaches
• Passion for solving user pain points using design thinking and user feedback
• Creative, analytical, and able to bridge strategic vision with hands-on execution
• Collaborative, open-minded, and committed to continuous learning and iteration
• Thrives in dynamic, fast-paced environments with rapid iteration
• Passionate about UX and innovation, staying abreast of trends and methodologies
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, able to communicate with developers and executives and negotiate to build consensus
• Strong organizational and time-management skills; able to work independently to meet deadlines
• Proficient in industry-standard UX tools: Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, Axure, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq
• Degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, or a related field; advanced degree preferred
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
• Ability to travel 0-10% as needed
• A strong portfolio or work samples demonstrating UX experience is required

Technologies

• Sketch
• Adobe Creative Cloud
• Figma
• Axure
• InVision
• UXPin
• Balsamiq

The Deloitte Encore Program

• Designed to help professionals who have left the workforce return with confidence
• Provides an environment to sharpen client service skills complemented by mentorship
• Offers a structured path to reignite your professional career

How You Will Grow

At Deloitte, professional development plans focus on helping individuals identify and leverage their strengths to do their best work, enabling growth across all levels of the organization.