User Experience Designer Sr

Why you'll LOVE Sagent:

You could work anywhere. We know you are talented and looking for something inspiring and impactful. A place where you will make a difference and have a great time doing it! By choosing Sagent, you can be part of our mission to make loans and homeownership simpler and safer for all consumers. Sagent powers servicers and consumers. You power Sagent!

The Design System focused Front-End Developer is a bridge between design and engineering. Their role is to tirelessly create, manage, and provide governance around all things design system from both a static design and a functional standpoint. This individual needs to have full understanding of the design process and what it takes to fully create an end-to-end d be a part of an incredible team of visionaries on the mission to enhance the lives of loan servicers and borrowers' by designing the BEST experiences in our industry.

Our team will provide you with the tools, resources and compensation to get the job done…and enjoy every minute of it. And if it couldn’t get any better….this role is REMOTE!

Your Day-to-Day at Sagent:

• Performing generative and qualitative research as required for ideal experiences.
• Leveraging and enhancing the company’s brand through exceptional design work.
• Producing world-class design solutions through wireframes, visual design, task flow diagrams, user journey maps, storyboards, site maps, prototypes, etc
• Leveraging and creating custom patterns and components for and as defined by our design system.
• Collaborating with the cross-functional peers, and other designers to ensure the creation and delivery of well-tailored experiences for our users.
• Leading the design process from problem discovery through implementation while continuously measuring impact.
• Guiding and validating design decisions through analytics and mixed-methods research, leveraging the correct research methodologies to different customer and business problem scenarios.
• Providing advice and guidance on the implementation of UX research methodologies and testing activities in order to analyze and predict user behavior.
• Collaborating with other designers on the team on brand expression, UX paradigms and patterns, and bringing it all together in cogent solutions to complex problems.
• Building, editing, and managing functional web components for our platform
• Working with design on QA-ing components and ensuring that design work is reflected accurately on ongoing basis
• Working with product and engineering on any refactoring or recommended changes to existing components
• Working with design team on accessibility standards and testing model for accessibility across all work

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• A bachelor's degree (or comparable certification) and a minimum of 4+ years of related experience in applicable field. UX/UI design experience for digital products or services. Completion of advanced degree (master or higher) in applicable field or experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• A portfolio of exceptional design work that has been shipped for both web and mobile platforms.
• Working knowledge of the following technologies and software: Figma, Sketch, Miro, Adobe Creative Suite.
• Strong experience working with design tools to create comprehensive high-fidelity design solutions and specifications that enforce consistency, usability, and accessibility as part of a larger system or product.
• Experience participating in the complete product development lifecycle of web and/or software applications.
• Experience working directly with developers.
• The ability to make unbiased decisions based on analytics and research.
• Deep react-based front-end web development skills, particularly with regards to components and best practices for said components
• Deep expertise collaborating with, and working alongside, a product design team
• Experience building governance models for the management, deployment, and maintenance of a design system
• Expertise with establishing best practice and recommending novel technologies/methods of approach for design systems
• Plus: Experience with accessibility and implementation of accessibility testing methods/processes
• Previous Enterprise or SaaS experience required.