Principal Information Architect 1200396

Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Boston, MA
Posted on: January 27, 2012

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Job Description:

Position Description:

Will lead important initiatives in Fidelity’s institutional investing
business. Will bring Fidelity’s institutional client base of investment
professionals, brokers and advisors into the design process to understand
their highly transactional workflows and complex trading, reporting and
portfolio management needs. Will utilize an understanding of the needs of
the investment professional, as well as the needs of their clients, to
design superior user experiences into the web-based applications that will
enable them to grow their businesses.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Set the standard for a exceptional customer experience for all
institutional investing products, and guide a cross-functional team toward
a standard of excellence.
• Collaborate with a team of information architects, visual designers,
editors, prototypers, researchers and usability specialists to tackle
complex projects of varying size.
• Serve as the client's primary point of contact with the design team and
the overall user experience design process, and lead the process of
translating their requirements into an outstanding experience for the users.
• Ensure design team efforts are in sync with the client's business goals,
expectations and budget.
• Develop user personas, scenarios and user experience success metrics;
conduct all of the necessary user research needed in the process.
• Conduct comparative/competitive analyses of web functions and interaction
methods
• Create and document site/application information and interaction designs,
including rich internet application behaviors.
• Create context diagrams, site maps, wireframes and task-flow diagrams.
• Work closely with Fidelity’s usability team to test and refine designs
and prototypes.
• Partner with Fidelity’s development team to ensure technical feasibility
and flawless implementation.

Requirements: Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Design,
Interactive Design, or Graphic Design (willing to accept foreign education
equivalent) as well as 5 years experience in job offered or 5 years
experience in digital user experience web design. Also requires experience
with: Demonstrated expertise in designing the information architecture for
complex B-to-B and B-to-C co-branded or re-branded web applications or
sites in the banking and financial services industries; Demonstrated
expertise in leading contextual user research projects to develop user
personas, scenarios, and experience-success metrics; Demonstrated expertise
in designing rich internet applications using Flex. Fidelity Investments
is willing to accept a suitable combination of education, training and
experience to satisfy the requirements.

To apply, visit http://jobs.fidelity.com and search for Job Number 1200396.

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