Our Purpose
We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Job Title
Senior Specialist – UX Designer
Job Overview:
Experienced professional with advanced knowledge of Usability practices and protocols that enable the individual to deliver usability reports according to defined protocol, while meeting established timelines. May modify processes to resolve situations and checks and takes corrective action to resolve problems that are not immediately evident in existing processes. Assignments are in support of the goal of developing products and services that are easy to use, easy to learn and useful.
Major Accountabilities:
.Selects and conducts appropriate user-centered design techniques throughout an iterative design process.
.Modifies, adapts and develops new methods as appropriate to address specific issues related to the iterative product development process.
.Other duties as assigned.
Education:
.Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Advanced degree preferred.
.Specialized training/experience in Human factors, Usability, Information or Interface Design required.
Knowledge / Experience:
.Broad knowledge in the field is preferred.
Skills/ Abilities:
.Strong command of usability and design techniques such as: usability testing, heuristic evaluation, paper prototyping, wire-framing, storyboarding, sitemap creation and card sorting.
.Ability to conduct focus groups, design sessions, task analyses, surveys and online testing is highly desirable.
.Current in usability and user-centered design methods.
.Strong analysis and presentation skills.
Work Conditions:
.Travel required, anticipated to be less than 25%.
COVID-19 Considerations
We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together. In many locations, which may change over time, we’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in some locations, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated will be permitted inside Mastercard offices until further notice.
In the US, Mastercard is a government contractor, which may legally require most Mastercard employees to be vaccinated unless a verified approved medical or religious exemption is granted. Further, we are currently making every effort towards having employees return to work in the office 2 days per week, if that makes sense for their team. Everyone must be vaccinated to enter Mastercard offices at this time. Therefore, we expect all candidates to be vaccinated or to be approved for a medical or religious accommodation prior to commencing work at Mastercard.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must: