UX Designer - ISG Client, Vice President

The UX Designer will engage in hands-on design processes including user research, ideation, and prototyping while leading a team of designers. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-impact product execution and drive the discovery phase of product development.

Responsibilities

• Engage in hands-on across all stages of the design process; user research, ideation, concept development, validation, wireframing, prototyping, final visual design, and implementation support.
• Serve as a high-level craft and delivery expert on complex products and provide scalable and innovative design solutions that influence stakeholders across functions to gain support for design strategies.
• Partner closely with cross functional teams - Business, Technology, Sales, Operations, Risks, and others to ensure products are well-defined, high impact, and successfully executed.
• Drive the discovery phase of the product, such as leading a collaborative workshop that define the problem that needs to be solved, educates with research and data, and clarifies the success metrics.
• Determine best UX solutions based on UX research and business goals and help to determine overall direction, identifying challenges and adapting as needed based on the context of the solution and customer.
• Lead a team of designers; provide oversight to deliver exemplary solutions, guide and mentor them fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and continuous professional growth.
• Maximize utilization by managing workflow, intake, and design resourcing effectively, responding to business needs and priorities.
• Collaborate with the wider design community; other studios and horizontal COEs (UX Research and Design System), to reduce duplicate of work, create cohesive user experience, and provide more strategic UX.
• Support the larger UX team culture by fostering a collaborative and creative work environment.
• Intentionally craft moments that allow people to pause, connect and get inspired.
• Employ a user centered approach to influence the product vision.
• Create simplicity out of complexity for experiences that have dense data & complex business requirements.
• Demonstrate the ability to adjust and prioritize design scope effectively in response to changing needs and/or constraints.
• Contribute with hands-on design support when needed to illustrate initial design directions or assist with deliverables.
• Push boundaries by leveraging data driven insights to craft intuitive, engaging, and impactful digital experiences.
• Partner regularly with other UX leads to exchange insights, set design standards, align on strategies to grow the firm’s UX maturity, and (when necessary) coordinate dependencies across teams.
• Collaborate across departments to inform project strategy, roadmaps and design team engagement with the ability to advise, coach and course correct when/if needed.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior product and technology stakeholders, ensuring UX is seen as a strategic partner in driving innovation and delivering impactful solutions, rather than a tactical resource.
• Help define strategic roadmaps in partnership with the product management team.
• Present innovative design work to senior management with a clear, compelling narrative to gain alignment and secure buy-in.
• Advocate for good user experiences by using stories from successful initiatives, UX best practices and data illustrate how a human-centered approach contributes to product success.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a UX designer as a key contributor to the success of products that have launched.
• At least 3 years of experience managing small to medium sized teams.
• Mastery managing the team’s workload and deliverables.
• Bachelor's degree in design, computer science or related field; master’s degree is a plus.
• Fluency in design thinking methodologies.
• Strong sense of design, and current with the latest design methodologies.
• Current in the best practices for using design systems.

Key Skills

• Fluency in design thinking methodologies.
• Strong sense of design, and current with the latest design methodologies.
• Current in the best practices for using design systems.

Benefits

• We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 years.
• Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries.
• Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry.