Northwestern Mutual
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Experience (UX) Designer

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At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
O ur Mission:
Northwestern Mutual has 160 years of history providing financial security to millions of people. Continuing that tradition means changing to meet the needs of our clients and financial advisors. We are a strong, innovative, and growing company that invests in people who care and make a positive impact. The Design team leads the way by creating human, simple, and engaging products to help people plan, track, and protect their financial goals.
What's the role?
An Experience Designer in the design team takes a holistic view of product balancing desirability, usability, viability, and feasibility all with a constant focus on how our customers, our partners, and the business all gain value through this complete 360-degree view of the product & service experience.
What You'll Be Doing

  • Working with our research team to uncover insights.
  • Convert insights into clearly framed problem statements
  • Create and model systems: data, navigation, interactions
  • Apply and evolve our design system into interfaces
  • Ideate multiple perspectives into mockups & prototypes utilizing best in class tools, methods, and processes.
  • Collaborate with partner-stakeholders (product manager, developers, other designers), leading design's focus on both design quality and the people whom we serve through an iterative process
  • Drive design through to execution and delivery with partners.
  • Drive usability, accessibility, responsiveness and other properties through design execution.
  • As a UX Designer you may be working on more than one project at a time.
  • Advanced skills in problem-solving and familiarity with technical constraints and limitations as they apply to designing for platforms such as desktop and mobile, Android and iOS.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity to drive the design cycle and multitask in a fast-paced environment


Bring Your Best! What this role needs

  • At least 2 years of industry experience required
  • You have experience working on a diverse set of complex, highly transactional, data intensive digital products & services.
  • Demonstrate a well-rounded set of digital design skills with primary emphasis on interaction design and information architecture with secondary abilities in research and visual design.
  • Demonstrate an advanced understanding of relevant psychological and other social science topics and their application to product design.
  • You have worked with applying design systems across a complex array of products and services.
  • You an advocate for design process and methods, and have experience teaching non-designers how they can make use of them and gain value from their practice for themselves.
  • While you are responsive to direction, as a UX Designer, you are learning to set your own direction in order to meet co-designed success criteria.
  • You are strategic and outcome oriented and present your work based on a critical eye to the business.
  • You have a detailed design process that is responsive to common heuristics and critical principles.
  • You are not only proficient in relevant tools of the trade but explore tools & tooling in order to always be ready to switch to the next best in class tool.
  • You use your communications and social skills to influence partners, peers, superiors, and partners, as well as to clearly communicate requirements, requests, and responses.


Preferred qualifications

  • Experience in a regulated industry like financial/banking, insurance or healthcare.


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What are Northwestern Mutual Perks + Benefits

Northwestern Mutual Benefits Overview

Whether providing education assistance, competitive health benefits or time off for community service, Northwestern Mutual is committed to supporting employees so they can live their best lives. 

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Employee resource groups
Hybrid work model
Flexible work schedule
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Northwestern Mutual offers a pension plan for employees.
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Fertility benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Floating holidays
Bereavement leave benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Mother's room
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Online course subscriptions available

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