Senior Product Designer - VP

Drive the design of large-scale AML and Sanctions Screening platforms, translating strategic business and regulatory needs into human-centered solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high design fidelity and address gaps through regular reviews and feedback loops.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design of large-scale, mission-critical AML and Sanctions Screening platforms.
• Partner with researchers, product managers, engineers, and compliance leaders to define and align on product vision, priorities, and design principles.
• Use advanced interaction design and systems thinking to simplify complex investigative workflows.
• Create wireframes, user flows, journey maps, high-fidelity prototypes, and final designs in Figma.
• Guide end-to-end design processes - from initial framing and exploration through delivery and refinement.
• Facilitate design critiques, co-creation workshops, and presentations to communicate design strategy and rationale.
• Collaborate with engineering during implementation, ensuring high design fidelity and addressing gaps.
• Partner with UX Researchers to champion the needs of AML investigators and sanctions screening analysts.
• Help elevate Citi’s design culture by mentoring junior designers, contributing to design operations, and shaping best practices.
• Contribute to the growth of Citi’s internal Design System and help define standards for enterprise-scale applications.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale or highly regulated digital products, ideally in financial services, compliance, or data-driven domains.
• Exceptional systems thinking and interaction design skills.
• Track record of delivering impactful designs that improve business outcomes and user experience.
• Confident working on ambiguous, cross-team initiatives with multiple stakeholders and evolving requirements.
• Skilled in Figma and comfortable working with design components and preparing design documentation.
• Strong communicator - able to synthesize insights, influence decisions, and drive alignment across product and engineering.
• Passionate about inclusive, accessible design and thoughtful about edge cases and systemic risk.
• Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Key Skills

• Enterprise-scale or highly regulated digital products
• Systems thinking and interaction design
• Impactful design delivery
• Cross-team collaboration
• Figma and design documentation
• Communication and alignment
• Inclusive and accessible design
• Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or related field