Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a privately-held financial institution and has been a thought leader and solutions provider for almost 200 years. We serve the most sophisticated individuals and institutions with award-winning expertise in Investment Management, Private Banking, and Investor Services. Our 5,000 colleagues operate from 17 cities throughout North America, Europe and Asia..
BBH is committed to diversity, innovation and globalization. Our culture is driven by our goal to provide the best solutions and services to our clients and each other. Our Partnership structure creates a flat organization that promotes collaboration across all business lines. We believe that diverse ideas and the ability to come together globally across groups and borders are a competitive advantage. In order for all our teams to excel, members must trust each other and feel comfortable providing honest input from all perspectives.
This openness sparks innovation and agility, which adds to the entrepreneurial spirit and provides many more career opportunities for our staff. We are a group of high-performing, dedicated and caring professionals who believe that working together is the foundation for superior client service excellence.
As a BBH professional, your career path is yours to define. We take pride in our ability to retain our best employees. We help them manage their careers by moving top performers to new areas of BBH where their talents will make the greatest contribution. As soon as you walk through the doors at BBH, we provide you with the tools to help you succeed and grow your career.
Responsibilities:
- Apply user experience and design principles in the execution of high-fidelity mockups and interaction flows
- Infuse designs with brand and aesthetic cues in a systematic and reproducible way
- Work closely with BBH Systems, Product Management, and Relationship Management to optimize the user experience for our customers.
- Communicating and validating designs by creating user task flows, wire frames, prototypes, and user interface design specifications.
- Gathering user data by employing the methodologies of task analysis and participatory design.
- Expertise in the iterative design process and good Information Architecture principles.
- Experience working with Systems developers to create a scalable, standards based and flexible UI architecture
- Solid experience directing development of standards based, cross-browser HTML templates for Systems deliverables
- Functional knowledge of web development technologies. Ability to code HTML and CSS a major plus.
- Strong oral and written communication skills. You must be able to communicate design ideas to the internal development and product management teams.
- Remain current in usability-related research and development.
Qualifications:
- Academic background in graphic design, human-computer interaction, interaction design, or related field.
- 1+ years experience performing user experience design work—requirements documentation, site maps, wire frames, prototypes, functional specifications and style standards.
- 3+ years of HTML, CSS and Photoshop.
- Full knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite.
- Expert knowledge in user experience principles, graphic design principles, and web standards.
- Solid understanding of the research literature in the usability field.
- Initiative, can-do attitude and creative problem solving skills a must.
- Should be adaptable, a fast learner, and open to working on a variety of diverse work opportunities.
