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Business Unit:

Global Marketing

Reporting To:

Manager, Marketing Production

Shift:

About Russell Investments, Mumbai: 

Russell Investments is a leading outsourced financial partner and global investment solutions firm providing a wide range of investment capabilities to institutional investors, financial intermediaries, and individual investors around the world. Building on an 87-year legacy of continuous innovation to deliver exceptional value to clients, Russell Investments works every day to improve the financial security of its clients. The firm is the world’s sixth-largest investment adviser, with $1 trillion in assets under advisement (as of June 30, 2022) and $288.3 billion in assets under management (as of March 31, 2023) for clients in 30 countries. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington in the United States, Russell Investments has offices around the world, including London, New York, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai – and has opened a new office in Mumbai, India in June 2023.

Joining the new Mumbai office is an incredible opportunity to work closely with global stakeholders to support the technology and infrastructure that drives the investment and trading processes of a globally recognized asset management firm. Be one of the first to join this new team based out of Goregaon (East) in Mumbai and be a part of creating the foundation and culture for the firm’s growing operations in India. The Mumbai office operates 5-days a week from Monday to Friday with varying shifts to accommodate time zones around the world.

For more information, please visit https://www.russellinvestments.com.

Job Description:

The purpose of this role is to support the large and growing demand for digital experiences. Since a high quality user experience (UX) requires thoughtful design, this role will serve specific projects as well as the broader global digital marketing team.

Deploying a variety of skills and business knowledge, the person in this role will gather project requirements, create and test sketches of various concepts, and provide developers with final user interface specifications and visual designs. When possible, this person will implement these designs. To reduce our risk of violating web accessibility requirements, this person will steadily monitor and improve the usability of our digital properties. Additionally, this person will ensure global brand consistency on our digital properties and work with our team members to improve our site search rankings.

Ultimately, this role helps make our digital properties more user-friendly and intuitive in order to attract and retain clients.

Responsibilities

REQUIREMENT GATHERING: As needed, confer with business stakeholders, digital marketing strategists and users to discuss and determine goals, objectives & webpage designs. (15%)

USER EXPERIENCE (UX) SOLUTION TESTING: Design or create digital experience concepts with low fidelity wireframe sketches and user flows to communicate design concept and collect feedback from digital strategists and other stakeholders. (20%)

USER INTERFACE (UI) DESIGN: Develop high-fidelity wireframe graphics using available computer software to define page layouts, visual design aligned with company brand, and interaction design specifications. Gather feedback from key stakeholders and make necessary changes. Work with developers to implement final designs. In many cases, implement designs independent of designers using SaaS solutions such as Ceros and/or Sitecore. (40%)

ACCESSIBILITY & SEO: Monitor and improve the usability and search ranking of our digital properties. Reduce our vulnerability to accessibility lawsuits by reviewing and fixing accessibilty violations. (15%)

GLOBAL UX CONSULTING: Act as a design and UX resource for all digital marketing activities across global/regional teams and all business units. Stay current on new software & design trends. (10%)

Knowledge, Skill & Ability

2+ years experience as a UX Designer, UI Designer or similar role

2+ years experience working directly with developers to ship digital products

Mastery of industry design tools (Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc) as demonstrated by a strong design portfolio

Experience managing user research activities 

Experience with Content Management Systems (Sitecore especially)

Experience with JIRA or similar IT project management software

Familiarity with interaction design, information architecture, and data visualization principles

Experience with Ceros (cloud-based design system)

Familiarity with development best practices and languages

Competencies

STRONG ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS: Demonstrated ability to work effectively under pressure and tight timelines, balancing multiple projects at once.

EXCELLENT WRITTEN AND VERBAL COMMUNICATION: Ability to articulate and discuss your design decisions with clients and stakeholders. Ability to communicate effectively with several types and levels of associates and external contacts.

EAGERNESS TO LEARN AND ITERATE: Open to new ideas. Doesn't let ego get in the way of a better solution. Demonstrated ability to improve one's own work based on user data (e.g. A/B tests) and qualitative business feedback.

EMPATHY FOR THE USER: UX design is all about the user, so the ability to place yourself in someone else's shoes and understand the root of their emotions is essential.

FLEXIBLE & ADAPTABLE: UX design is extremely fast-paced and will require you to wear many hats. You need to be ready to adapt to different situations and think on your feet.

CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVER: UX designers are problem-solvers, so a demonstrated knack for both creative and critical thinking will make it much easier to come up with those all-important design solutions

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