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At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
Our MissionNorthwestern Mutual has 165 years of history providing financial security to millions of people. Continuing that tradition means changing to meet the needs of our clients and financial advisors. We are a strong, innovative, and growing company that invests in people who care and make a positive impact. The Design team leads the way by creating human, simple, and engaging products to help people plan, track, and protect their financial goals.What's the role?An Associate Product Designer is part of a cross-functional team building and supporting an enterprise-scale design system, similar to the Lightning design system used by Salesforce. By delivering matching tooling for designers and engineers we increase consistency and efficiency in product development across the company. On this team, designers and engineers work closely together, from discovery to release, building, documenting, and supporting the design system.The role includes a variety of responsibilities such as designing and spec'ing tooling, writing documentation, and providing users of the tooling with support. This will include tasks involving creating design tooling with a high level of specificity, crafting support imagery, writing instructional and promotional text, and interacting with users of the system to help them with implementation of the design system.There are a number of opportunities for professional growth in this role including working in a highly collaborative team environment, exposure to all aspects of design system work, and a high degree of personal ownership over assigned projects. Additionally, everyone on the team has time each week to build their skills and focus on professional development.What you'll be doing- Create and refine a systematic and unified interaction language for all Northwestern Mutual digital products
- Use a collaborative and iterative process to design, prototype, and validate design ideas
- Write guidelines for using and implementing components with supportive illustrations
- Support users of the system through multiple channels
- You have a bachelor's degree, or equivalent, focused on product or graphic design
- Evince an enthusiasm for design systems and supporting designers and non-designers alike in using one
- Possess a basic understanding of engineering concepts
- Collaborate freely with colleagues while being responsive to direction and feedback
- Communicate openly, sharing information consistently across multiple channels
- Excited by user experience and the tools to create it, with a focus on the designer/developer experience
- Experience that may include a combination of the following
- Working on or using a design system or reusable component libraries
- Working on complex, highly transactional, data intensive digital products & services
- Developing a visual style across a variety of executions
- Experience in a regulated industry like financial/banking, insurance, and/or healthcare
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