UX Designer - Federal Reserve Bank (FRB)

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is part of the nation’s central bank and we’ve provided many opportunities for professional growth during our history.

For twenty-five years in a row, we’ve been named “One of Northeast Ohio’s Best Places to Work” by North Coast 99. This prestigious award honors organizations with outstanding employment practices, including compensation, benefits, training, recruitment, retention, community services, and employee communications.

Our People Make the Difference! The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is seeking innovative thinkers with vision to build the framework that will carry the Bank into the future.

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To be considered for this role, candidates must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder and have resided in the U.S. for a minimum of three consecutive years.

This role is based in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a hybrid work arrangement - individuals may be required to work some days in the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland while working the other days from home.

UX Designer

Organizational Expectations:

As a UX Designer, you will be responsible for the analysis, design, creation, and maintenance of UX design and research standards for customers in the Federal Reserve System. You will be responsible for analysis, design, creation and maintenance of UX design and research standards for customers in the Federal Reserve System. You will provide support and guidance across multiple development teams including analyzing data and collecting deliverables to support successful implementation of UX best practices while keeping abreast of current UX design and research practices.

General Responsibilities:

• Create user flows, style guides, low- and high-fidelity prototypes, and design artifacts (wireframes, etc.) that work on various browsers and mobile platforms

• Produce designs that are compliant with current web accessibility guidelines

• Actively participates in all phases of the product lifecycle, including product ideation, user persona definition, requirement elicitation, cross-discipline UX design sessions, usability testing, and data analytics.

• Applies fundamental design principles to products so they effectively use typography, color, composition, and space to present information.

• Conceptualizes and articulates strong, user-centered interactions, while balancing the needs of the business and the capabilities of technology.

• Remains current with new technologies, frameworks, and trends; advises the enterprise; and pursues the latest opportunities that will improve the UX.

• Performs other duties as assigned or requested.

• Adheres to the Bank's attendance policies through regular and prompt attendance.

Education and Experience:

• Associate’s degree and 5 years of related work experience or,

• Bachelor's degree and 3 years of related work experience or,

• Master's degree and 1 years of related work experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Fundamental design principles that affect typography, color use, composition, use of space, and presentation of information

• Fluent in HTML and CSS, including responsive design

• Web accessibility guidelines

• eCommerce web, mobile web, and UX design

• Implementing designs and creating test-ready prototypes in an agile development environment

• Extensive experience with some or all of the following: Photoshop, Illustrator, SASS, Sketch, Foundation/Bootstrap, GIT, Javascript (jQuery, AngularJS)

• Prototyping tools (for example, Axure, Balsamiq, invisionapp)

Physical Demands and General Working Conditions            

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, performance standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland reserves the right to revise this or any job description at any time. 

Bank’s Ethics Rules and Drug Testing:

As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland employees must comply with the Bank’s ethics rules which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning or controlling, directly or indirectly, any debt or equity interest in a depository institution or an affiliate of a depository institution. A "depository institution" means a bank, a trust company, or any institution that accepts deposits, including a bank chartered under the laws of a foreign country. In addition, employees (and their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children) may not own shares of mutual funds, unit investment trusts or ETFs that have a policy, as stated in the prospectus, of concentrating in the financial services industry and that have underlying investments in banks or other depository institutions.  If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting.

In addition, as a condition of employment, candidates must undergo a background check and will be tested for all controlled substances prohibited by federal law, to include marijuana, prior to hire and for certain safety sensitive positions during employment.  

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Reasonable Accommodation Statement - The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to clev.4d.benefits.specialist@clev.frb.org.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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