Senior UX Researcher/CX Strategist - Wealth Management
See yourself being part of a large, transformational change? This could be the role for you!
At Iress, we make things happen
We believe technology should help people perform better every day. Since our beginning in 1993, people across financial services have trusted us to take their performance to the next level. More than 10,000 businesses and 500,000 people use our software, from the world’s most iconic financial services brands to advice firms of all sizes, banks, insurers, investment managers, traders and brokers. Iress is one of Australia’s largest technology companies and employs more than 2,000 people across Australia, The United Kingdom, Africa, Canada, France, New Zealand and Asia.
Build your career at Iress!
Do you have what it takes to help us design and deliver the highest quality financial software to our clients? You do? Then let us tell you more...
You’ll do research - lots of it. You’ll get up close and personal with the people that buy and use our software, study our competitors and product analytics, talk to support and client teams. You’ll then make sense of all this information and share your findings with the rest of the business. You’ll tell us stories that bring our users to life and create engaging artefacts for teams to refer to. You’ll work with our global product teams to help them empathise with our users and help us validate that we are solving the right problems, based on what we’ve learnt. You’ll work with senior stakeholders and help drive product strategy using evidence from today and expectations of future trends and technology. Most importantly, you’re a force for good and for change.
But the best thing about this job? You’ll get to help us implement delightful changes for products being used by some of the world’s biggest financial brands - creating magical user experiences based on your research. If this sounds right up your alley, we would love to hear from you!
Some of the awesome things you’ll be involved with:
Lead a small team of product designers
Organise, carry out user research & testing sessions, in partnership with product & client teams
Conduct user & competitor research based on product initiatives, supported by product analytics and internal support teams
Develop current and future state customer journey maps
Develop user flows
Develop service design blueprints
Develop a Jobs to be done framework
Experience in both qualitative and quantitative research methods
Helps empower your colleagues through storytelling and insightful artefacts that bring your findings to life
Work collaboratively with Product and Product Design teams to help identify and plan user engagement opportunities
Participates and provides quality input into any requirements or analysis of solutions, features or non-functional requirements
Ensures any key person risk is minimised by working with others and appropriately documenting decisions and outcomes
Fosters and develops strong working relationships with the wider product and technology group. Will mentor/coach more junior designers and researchers, and take feedback or seek guidance from more senior team members.
What you will bring:
Previous wealth management/financial services industry experience, or knowledge of financial advice
Experience in leading teams and working within a team, working on a single software product or component
Has a growth mindset and excitement about tackling the next challenge with a team, understands that growth comes from continuously developing through hard work
Will test the status quo and enjoys thinking about and implementing innovative ways to solve problems - and in doing this is not afraid to fail!
Strong, multi-year experience as a member of teams working on research projects
Proven and demonstrable experience using standard research and design tools and software and is across the main techniques and activities of Human Centred Design
Experience in collaborative teams, working in co-located or remote team structures. Experience mentoring less-experienced designers and researchers while actively learning and engaging with more experienced technologists.
Why work with us?
8 additional paid days per year to extend your weekends
Hybrid working
Generous cash bonus for every successful referral
Starting school leave - 8.5 days of leave to assist your children with the transition to school
Up to 26 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary carers (up to 4 weeks for secondary carers), and the ability to work part-time when returning to work
3 days’ paid leave per year to participate in charity initiatives
Discounted health insurance premiums
Access to learning and development programs through Udemy
Iress is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive culture. We strongly believe that diversity is what makes our teams and our products succeed. Our people have different experiences, skills, perspectives and beliefs and everyone’s uniqueness is valued and celebrated.
Our hiring decisions are never based on sexual orientation, race, gender identity, religion, disability, citizenship, marital or family status and age. Even if you feel you don’t meet all of the requirements of the role, we would still like to hear from you!
We’re also proud to be globally recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer that promotes and supports all women in the workplace.
For more information about what we do, our people and values, please visit our website - https://www.iress.com/join-us/careers/
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