Description
A top financial services firm in Downtown Boston is bringing on a Producer within the User Experience Design team. This team is responsible for designing the firm's award-winning websites, mobile applications and internal workstations. The team works collaboratively with business and technology teams to design and deliver online experiences that enable customers' financial success.Responsibilities:
- Support Design Directors and Leads through the management of a portfolio of User Experience Design projects.
- Responsibilities include, but not limited to, estimation, scheduling, milestone tracking, budget management, staffing needs, communication, risk mitigation and issues resolution, status reporting, etc.
- Partner with Business and Technology Project Managers to coordinate on project timelines, deliverables, and budgetary and quality standards.
- Collaborate with internal Business and Technology partners on project interdependencies to enable all downstream work to be completed appropriately as part of the portfolio plan.
- Act as point of contact between Technology and Business on project issues and escalations.
- Partner with relevant UXD Operations and Design partners to create a project management infrastructure within UXD, including standards for project plans, document sharing and storage, milestone reporting, communications, etc.
- Continuously identify and develop process improvement recommendations that will create a more effective and efficient project management function in UXD.
- Provide leadership to Design teams to ensure adherence to all established design methodologies, processes, and best practices.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications or other relevant field.
- Experience in program and project management, preferably with large, cross-functional Web/Technology programs
- Proven success in developing and implementing new processes.
- Experience with a Design team/agency a plus.
- Strong planning and organizational skills, as role will communicate with varying levels of team members across business stakeholders, technology and management.
- Exceptional communications skills.
- Demonstrated leadership, influencing and collaboration skills, and an ability to direct efforts, and deliver results from virtual teams.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple planned and unplanned projects.
- Hands on work style; "can do" attitude with a strong desire to make things happen.
- Flexibility; comfortable tackling ambiguous challenges.
- Knowledge of rapid, iterative software development, such as Agile, is a plus.
If you are interested in this role please apply here or call Zach at Huxley - . Thanks!
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