Product Designer

About the Company:

Ouro is a global, vertically-integrated financial services and technology company dedicated to the delivery of innovative financial empowerment solutions to consumers worldwide. Ouro’s financial products and services span prepaid, debit, cross-border payments, and loyalty solutions for consumers and enterprise partners.

Ouro's flagship product Netspend provides prepaid and debit account solutions that connect customers with secure, convenient access to global payment networks so they can manage their money and make everyday purchases. With a nationwide U.S. retail network, customers can purchase and reload Netspend products at 130,000 reload points and over 100,000 distributing locations.

Since Ouro's founding in 1999 by industry pioneers Roy and Bertrand Sosa, Ouro products have processed billions of dollars in transaction volume and served millions of customers worldwide. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas with regional offices around the world. Learn more at www.ouro.com.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with product, business strategy, and engineering to run and execute projects with high-level direction within your product area.

• Identify the right solutions for ambiguously defined problem spaces.

• Simplifies and solves user needs for multiple customer types. Ability to design end-to-end journeys and interactions that drive engagement to meet revenue goals for a product area.

Your Soft Skills

• Keep it simple: Scope work to keep momentum up while maintaining a high-quality bar for yourself and your team.

• Unblock yourself: Know how to overcome barriers by proactively identifying and addressing their root causes.

• Be decisive: Identify and gather input from others and consider customer needs to make informed and timely decisions that accomplish broader strategic goals.

• Be self-aware: Know your own strengths and areas for professional growth. Know when to ask for help.

• Know your audience: Understand how to tailor your designs and messaging to fit your audience; communicate clearly, concisely and at the right level of fidelity.

Your Craft Skills

• Use low-to-medium fidelity designs & prototypes to frame and clarify product opportunities within a defined problem space.

• Know your process and when to use which design methods, as well as when to change up an approach.

• Generate and explore multiple potential solutions, and know how to identify the right ones.

• Know how to use existing systems, and when to break out of them. Can work collaboratively to develop new patterns and principles for team-wide adoption.

• Detail-oriented with micro-interactions, copy, edge cases, and states.

• Excellent UX problem-solving: Ability to create efficient solutions for complex user journeys.

• Strong visual design skills: knows how to use color, composition, visual hierarchy to produce delightful user interfaces. Demands a high level of visual polish from their work.

Qualifications

Required

• 4+ years of experience working in UX, Product Design

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Desire to learn and grow into more responsibilities, such as mentorship, strategy, and elevating the team’s overall design thinking and craftsmanship.

• Expertise in Figma

• Prototyping skills (preferably Figma)

Preferred

• Experience working with B2C, SaaS, and B2B products.

• Expertise in iOS, Android, and responsive web design.

• Experience with data-driven design

• Experience with user testing and running basic usability studies

• Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies