Principal Hiring for UX Designer – Mobile App (Remote) at Des Moines, Iowa Full Time

The enterprise Experience Design Team at Principal is looking for a UX Designer, mobile app to join our Customer Experience (CX) team to lead design on our mobile app. You’ll be the lead visual and interaction designer on our Principal mobile app team, a cross-functional product team including a product manager and engineers. You’ll conduct user-centered research, design user-centered experiences, and collaborate on user experience (UX) strategy for the app with minimal supervision. You’ll use best practices and take advantage of modern trends to refine and optimize our app for iOS and Android audiences, align to our in-house design system and stay in sync with changes to our web experience. You’ll also advocate for creating accessible experiences and strive to deliver equitable experiences that meet the needs of users whatever their ableness.

What you’ll be working on:

• Synthesizing qualitative and quantitative data sources for mobile app usage, including industry trends, and identifying research and design opportunities.

• Building wireframes and prototypes that reflect insights. Leverage design patterns to guide customer interaction in intuitive ways. Participate regularly in design review and critique when generating and refining ideas.

• Collaborating with software engineers to determine feasibility of the design experience, business stakeholders on alignment to priorities, and Product and CX peers on identifying gaps in our existing experience and developing solutions to fill them.

• Finding opportunities for, and conducting, customer research such as usability studies to understand the efficacy of proposed design or to better identify the problem space.

• Mentoring design peers on the specifics of designing for iOS and Android.

This position is also a great way to advance your career. As a growing company with more than 20,000 employees around the world, Principal offers a lot of ways for you to learn more, earn more, and achieve more!

Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives. We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years!

• You have a bachelor’s degree in human-computer interaction, management information systems, graphic design, or other design-related field; or 8+ years of equivalent work experience.

• You’ll have 4+ years of mobile app design experience

• You will have experience using or leveraging design, user research, web & behavior analytics as well as A/B and multivariate testing tools.

• You’ll have working knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards.

• You will have a desire to strive for the highest quality experience, through design critiques and collaboration.

• You’ll have excellent planning, organizational, problem-solving, analytical, decision-making and interpersonal skills.

• Some travel may be required, including overnight stays.

Successful candidate will have the following:

• Certified User Analyst (CUA) or Certified User Experience Analyst (CXA) certifications – nice to have.

Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.

$77400 – $147600 / year

Location(s)

This role will ideally be located in Des Moines, IA, but we are willing to consider remote applicants as well.

Work Environments

This role offers the ability for hybrid (blending both office and remote work in a typical workweek) arrangement or fully remote, if not based in Des Moines. Remote employees might travel to the office once a quarter for department gatherings and other meetings.

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, we’re not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States? This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please use the following links.

Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants

Investment Code of Ethics

For Principal Global Investors positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.

Experience Principal

While our expertise spans the globe, we’re bound by one common purpose: to foster a world where financial security is accessible to all. And our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees – individually and all of us together. Explore our core values, benefits and why we’re an exceptional place to grow your career.

Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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Requisition ID: 2023-39749

Enterprise Segment: Corporate

Business Area: Global Brand and Experience

External Company Name: Principal Financial Group

Street: 711 High Street

Remote: Yes

FLSA Status: Exempt