Job Description

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

What's the Role:

Become a key member of our Purchase Design Team, where you will design tools essential for our advisors in the field, while also integrating deeply with our home office operations and client-facing experiences. You will collaborate with a dedicated group of designers, product managers, and engineers, aiming to modernize and elevate the end-to-end purchase journey. Your primary responsibility will be to understand and champion the user's perspective throughout the design process. You will tackle complex problems and approach design challenges with a systematic and analytical mindset.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Think through complex features and flows, balance user needs and business needs, and make the complex feel simple.
• Work under the guidance of a more senior UX designer, while still having ownership over his or her work.
• Follow an iterative design process to wireframe, prototype, and validate design ideas.
• Understand established design patterns and know when to follow them and when to break them.
• Understand how to leverage qualitative and quantitative research insights to inform design decisions, and how to design an MVP with a longer-term vision in mind.
• Responsible for establishing a systematic interaction design language across systems and platforms and will help define and drive the future of Northwestern Mutual product experience.

Qualifications

• A self-starter who is user-focused, detailed, and solutions-oriented.
• Basic knowledge of the fundamentals of user-centered design, visual design, brand development, and how products are put together.
• An extreme passion for understanding the user, and a strong communicator of the user's perspective throughout the design process.
• An understanding that UX is more than just UI but includes all user-centered design activities from research, concepting, flows, sitemaps wireframes, prototypes, annotations, and more.
• Working knowledge of design and prototyping tools, such as Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, Invision and anything else needed to get the job done.
• A strong online portfolio available for viewing.

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Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please c lick here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.

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We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and commitment to diversity and inclusion. 

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