At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you'll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.
Position Overview:
We are looking for a UX Product Design Professional to join our team of UX Product Designers in developing intuitive web applications through collaboration with developers, product owners, and business partners. This role requires a pragmatic designer with a user-centered, data-informed approach, along with the ability to drive effective design solutions with guidance. The ideal candidate will possess an understanding of design methodologies, enterprise software, and sophisticated user experiences!
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Our Impact:
We strive to deliver a consistent digital experience by supporting end-to-end product design for web applications and tools across various business lines, using an implementable Design System. We collaborate with teams including Product, Development, Client Education, Marketing, and Seller Engagement to create design concepts, prototypes, demos, training materials, and user interfaces that enhance client efficiency.
Your Impact:
Strategy and Planning:
- Be responsible for the end-to-end design process, ensuring timely, detailed, and polished results.
- Define use cases and Product Design requirements; create interaction flows, wireframes, mockups, interactive prototypes, and design specifications.
- Provide interactive prototype experiences that efficiently communicate ideas, workflows, and component functionality to partners.
- Collaborate with developers to ensure that design and implementation align with business objectives and identified UX solutions, while also identifying future improvement opportunities.
Delivery & Execution:
- Provide design guidance for applications, considering dependencies and integration across the enterprise.
- Seek peer reviews to establish and uphold design standards.
- Demo designs and concepts to multi-functional partners throughout the organization.
Team Collaboration:
- Contribute to continual refinement of the Design System.
- Foster collaboration to drive value, identify, and resolve impediments.
- Lead multiple projects under guided supervision.
- Advocate for UX Product Design practices by empathizing with and understanding user needs.
Qualifications:
- 2-4+ years of experience, a degree in UX Design or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Proficiency in prototyping tools such as Justinmind, Figma, or other interactive/rapid prototyping tools.
- Knowledge of Angular, React, HTML, CSS, Agile Methodologies in Jira, and product design processes.
- Experience collaborating with developers.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles and experience with rapid prototyping.
- Collaborative skills for cross-team work with various teams and fields.
- Ability to communicate design concepts clearly and persuasively to customers.
- Experience in structuring and implementing design initiatives at scale.
- Skills in creating, evaluating, and modifying prototypes for software application development.
- Proficient in developing and applying software design/usability processes.
- Capable of providing usability evaluation and support to product development teams.
- Ability to articulate user needs and design solutions.
- Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and communication abilities.
Keys to Success in this Role:
- Strong, confident personality.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Ability to independently multi-task and prioritize.
- Highly adaptable and eager to learn.
- Above and beyond attention to design and interaction details, especially in prototyping.
- Ability to present to audiences across all organizational levels.
- Deep curiosity and eagerness to continuously learn new trends and implement new ideas.
- Ability to implement processes and follow through on tasks.
- Passion for prototyping and incorporating feedback.
- Proactively address issues before someone brings to your attention.
Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.
Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you'll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with differing abilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
CA Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Notice to External Search Firms: Freddie Mac partners with BountyJobs for contingency search business through outside firms. Resumes received outside the BountyJobs system will be considered unsolicited and Freddie Mac will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. If interested in learning more, please visit www.BountyJobs.com and register with our referral code: MAC.
Time-type:Full time
FLSA Status:Non-Exempt
Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.
This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $90,000 - $134,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.