Principal UX Designer, Asset Management

The Principal UX Designer will lead design efforts to create intuitive user interfaces and establish best practices for user experiences. This role involves collaborating with engineers and product managers, developing prototypes, and advocating for design solutions based on user and business goals.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead design efforts, guiding the creation of transformative and intuitive user interfaces
• Help establish standards and best practices for world-class streamlined user experiences
• Consider accessibility, interactive design, overall usability, and a responsive frontend architecture
• Create innovative solutions for a wide variety of product design challenges
• Lead the design for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences
• Plan and define strategy for the direction of future iterations
• Quickly iterate on multiple interactive design solutions
• Advocate for design solutions, highlighting inputs that influence decisions
• Develop high level, detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes
• Deliver work that is user-friendly and aesthetically engaging
• Work alongside engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the production cycle
• Assess and optimize the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics
• Develop and maintain detailed user-interface specifications
• Present design work to multiple teams and senior leadership for review and feedback
• Create user experience standards, guidelines, and associated assets to accelerate UI development
• Contribute to the group’s shared knowledge of user-centered design and research methodologies

Requirements

• 8+ years of UX or related design experience in a professional setting
• A degree in a related field such as interactive design, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, or human factors is preferred
• Asset Management or related Investment Applications Design experience is ideal
• Provide design and product thought leadership
• Work across and collaborate with investment professionals, product and engineering leads, and others
• Distilling qualitative and quantitative feedback to unearth recurring themes and promote data-driven design decisions
• An array of design skills including service design and strategic design methods
• Information architecture, prototyping, user research, and visual design will also be critical
• Effective communication, presentation, and storytelling skills
• Experience working on agile teams delivering value in digital products preferred
• Experience running and/or using research to support evidence-focused design decisions preferred
• A digital portfolio we can review online is required
• Familiarity with the value of design systems, understanding reuse and scale, and knowing when to contribute to make them better
• Work across the organization to drive consistent associate-facing experiences

Key Skills

• UX or related design experience
• Degree in interactive design, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, or human factors
• Asset Management or related Investment Applications Design experience
• Design and product thought leadership
• Collaboration with investment professionals, product and engineering leads
• Data-driven design decisions
• Service design and strategic design methods
• Information architecture, prototyping, user research, and visual design
• Effective communication, presentation, and storytelling skills
• Agile team experience
• Evidence-focused design decisions
• Digital portfolio
• Design systems understanding
• Consistent associate-facing experiences