Sr. Lead Experience Designer - Bank of America Experience Design

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Bank of America’s Experience Design (XD) team creates world-class end-to-end digital experiences that are intuitive, innovative, engaging and inclusive. We are a multi-disciplinary design organization with expertise across product design, user experience, conversational/AI design, creative direction, ux research and user testing, design program management, production design, content strategy, copywriting, and design technology. The team is constantly defining, iterating, solving problems, and working together to find ways all our digital platforms can empower customers to reach their financial goals by designing and delivering next-level experiences that provide ease, convenience and safety while matching to individual needs and preferences.

Bank of America is looking for a Sr. Lead Experience Designer for an interdisciplinary product design team that delivers strategic and tactical solutions in support of the business-critical Consumer and Business Banking portfolio of work. A trusted advisor for Directors, senior leaders and the Experience Design team for highest quality execution across a complex portfolio of projects. Leader for team on vision, quality, execution, professionalism, and delivering on-time and on-budget. The role will shape the vision of experience strategies with deep domain knowledge and continuously craft new frameworks shifting teams from execution to strategy to influence leaders, peers, and stakeholders from across the organization and ensure roadmap projects are delivered with a high bar of adding to a culture of creativity, accountability, discourse, and measurable key results.

As a Sr. Lead Experience Designer, you will:

• Lead, design, optimize and deliver useful and elegant, best-in-class digital experiences and vision working from a multidisciplinary, holistic perspective from concept to execution and implementation   
• Applying a broad range of product design capabilities across user experience and visual design to craft complete vision, product and experience solutions across domains, programs and lines of business.  
• Trusted advisor to leaders and partners with a diverse set of program stakeholders and cross-functional teams – including product management and engineering – cultivate network required to drive decisions and vision. 
• Serve as a high-level craft and delivery expert on complex work while collaborating with researchers, technologists, designers and delivery managers across the team. 
• Autonomously lead multiple designers to develop and deliver advanced experience design deliverables across the discovery and accountable for delivery design workflow while providing oversight, including information architectures, user flows mapping user journey, wireframes, high fidelity designs, compositions, design specifications, redlines and prototypes. Deliver exemplary solutions while proactively implementing better practices and methods. 
• Drive advanced analysis, clarity, synthesizing, assessing, providing focus and bringing decisive leadership amid ambiguity and guiding to best design approach. Operate at scale by seeking connecting patterns across projects and lines of business. 
• Lead, conceptualize and design digital experiences across web, mobile web, and native apps (iOS and Android), utilizing evaluative testing to refine and enhance the customer journey. 
• Lead, evaluate and benchmark existing product and service experiences, apply design expertise and heuristics and competitive insights and new frameworks to move discussions forward. 
• Organize design critiques, formally mentor other designers, and manage multiple complex programs to drive timely, high-quality outcomes. 
• Work on multiple complex programs or lines of business, managing time and expectations with stakeholders across the organization and XD, staying knowledgeable on project and product details. Drive timely, quality delivery by managing multiple projects and actively providing status updates to XD and partner management. 
• Actively contribute to standards, reflect our design system patterns in work and champion best practices while setting visions on portfolio for innovative digital and technology experiences. 
• Model of excellent visual, communication and storytelling skills. Demonstrate thought leadership by challenging the status-quo, present independently and navigate questions, conceive, pitch, execute creative ideas, patterns and standards.
   

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of industry design experience operating as an end-to-end multidisciplinary product designer, with strong capabilities across a range of design disciplines 
• An outstanding portfolio that exemplifies excellence in experience design demonstrating end-to-end multidisciplinary product design. 
• A strong track record leading the successful execution of large customer-facing digital experiences, multi-channel consumer-facing applications, responsive web, and websites, including complex, compliant and transactional systems. 
• Expert in user-centered design principles, development of better practices, and rapid ideation processes like Lean UX, Design Sprints, and Agile. 
• Ability to anticipate questions, lead and facilitate discussions and model ability to shift across portfolios and programs. 
• Demonstrated success in influencing and advising executives and cross-functional teams to drive to decisions and resolutions with senior stakeholders and launch complex customer-facing digital products and programs. 
• High level of proficiency in working with and contributing to design systems and adhering to brand guidelines, leveraging quantitative and qualitative data to inform and inspire design. 
• Expert level proficiency with design tools, including Figma, Adobe suite, and Sketch. 
• Exemplifies leadership in envisioning, problem-solving with a strong work ethic, showcasing reliability in issue resolution and time management with a focus on achieving results. 
• Demonstrated ability to lead in collaborative settings, builds and nurtures strong relationships. 
• Continuous learner with strong interest in, and aptitude for learning new design and technology skills 
• Excellent communicator in written and verbal form; strong listening and presentation skills, ability to work well with executives, with proven ability to facilitate and influence. 
• Adapts swiftly and positively to change, embodying curiosity, resilience and flexibility.
   

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in design with corresponding experience. 
• Financial or similar industry experience preferred. 
• Project management experience a plus.

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