at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
As a Design Lead of the Design System team creating the future of our Northern Trust Design System, you will govern and design systems to amplify Northern Trust designers' work for digital product experiences. Ideal candidates will lead with curiosity and empathy, driving change through contribution and communication. The Design System team is part of our Design Enablement practice in the Experience Design and Research department.
Design Leads tactically and strategically contribute to design at varying stages of discovery, development, and delivery in collaboration with peers and stakeholders. They can work independently and collaborate with their peers and counterparts in business and technology teams. They are responsible for the delivery of specific features or processes within a product or capability team and take accountability for execution and experience outcomes with manageable risks and resource requirements. May lead features or project steps within a broader project or may have accountability for on-going activities or objectives with manageable risks. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
Major Duties
- Works to improve Northern Trust Design System user experiences through individual contribution and collaboration with Experience Design and Research team members as well as technology, business, and product partners
- Create beautiful, accessible, well-documented design system patterns and templates from ideation of new components in Figma to verifying the design intent of a released component in Storybook
- Guides design to meet objectives and outcomes, influences business and technology decisions with user needs in mind
- Contributes to an open culture that enables employees' development through direct but kind feedback, promotes diverse perspectives and fosters a sense of curiosity and optimism
- Provides creative direction and conducts design reviews, balancing design decisions between research, technology, and business unit objectives
- Solves experience problems and takes new perspectives on existing solutions
- Exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
- Works within broad guidelines and policies
- May collaborate in an agile environment or ad hoc in emerging experience projects
- Guides designers and researchers relative to the current project or digital product
Knowledge
- Ability to utilize Human-Centered Design and Interaction Design best practices to solve product and service experience problems within a professional setting, as demonstrated in a portfolio of work with an emphasis on design systems and improving the accessibility of digital products
- High proficiency with Figma, including familiarity with branching, components, variables, variants, and modes while creating, maintaining, and planning work
- Aware of the possibilities and constraints of technology, including frontend web development, responsive design, module federation, inclusive technology, design tokens, token synchronization, mobile and...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
