Staff Product Designer - Tax Product Development (UI/UX)

Job Summary:

The Tax Digital Transformation & Innovation practice at BDO USA drives the success of our business through intuitive and human-first digital experiences that our employees and clients engage with. We're elevating the way tax professionals deliver services to our clients and the way we help them manage their taxes and tax strategies.

The Staff Product Designer is a strategic individual to help drive the strategy, contribute to the ways we work and create value, guide our design system and best practices, lead the design of our products and platforms, and set the path for our next generation of industry leading digital tax products. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of both user interface and user experience design, with a proven track record of simplifying and enhancing the user experience for complex products.

Job Duties:

• Partners closely with Product Owners, Development/Fusion and other stakeholders to translate strategy into zero-to-one products, then continuously improve and leverage rapid experimentation to drive adoption
• Presents and defends designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive-level stakeholders
• Designs intuitive and user-friendly interfaces and experiences for complex and highly technical tax products, ensuring they align with human-centered design principles
• Creates wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
• Conducts research and usability testing to gather insights and feedback and use data to inform design decisions
• Contributes to the vision and strategy for interface and human centered design for our Tax digital transformation and innovation initiatives
• Develops and maintains design guidelines, best practices, and standards
• Raises the aesthetic and storytelling bar through inspiring goals and clear standards
• Shares and champions the importance of human-centered design throughout the organization, advocating for users and clients all aspects of our work
• Provides input into BDO's Tax digital transformation & innovation strategy
• Other duties as required

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Acts as a career advisor and mentor as assigned

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree required; focus in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, preferred; OR
• Ten (10) or more years of experience in digital product UI/UX design, that included human-centered design solutions, required

Experience:

• Ten (10) or more years of experience in product design or related field, required
• Three (3) or more years of experience in an individual contributor product design leadership role, required
• A strong portfolio showcasing expertise in product design and simplifying the user experience for complex products, preferred
• Expertise designing data-driven interfaces, preferred
• Cross platform web and mobile application design, preferred
• Experience with user research and usability testing methods, preferred

License/Certifications:

• Certification in UX Design or Interaction Design, preferred

Software:

• Expert level experience in design and prototyping tools (e.g., Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, InVision, and Figma), preferred
• Experience in collaborating with product management and engineering teams through Azure DevOps, preferred
• Proficient in design prototyping and storytelling, preferred

Other Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Knowledge of leading practices in conducting user research and usability testing, with a data-driven approach to design
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across different teams and disciplines
• Excellent knowledge of leading practices in design and management of a design function
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to collaborate with other designers, developers, product managers and end-users
• Strong organizational skills, especially the ability to meet project deadlines with a focus on details
• Strong knowledge of human centered design
• Excellent understanding of the full mobile and web development process, including design, development, and deployment
• Strong knowledge of accessibility requirements for designs
• Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to effectively lead a team of product design professionals and delegate work assignments as needed
• Ability to encourage team environment on projects and contribute to the professional development of assigned personnel
• Ability to successfully interact with professionals at all levels

Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

National Range: $185,000 - $225,000
Maryland Range: $185,000 - $225,000
NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $185,000 - $225,000