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"Design is where science and art break even."
— Robin Mathew
UBS is seeking a Design Leader to manage a team of UX designers, focusing on creating highly usable and intuitive digital products.
Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor and guide a team of designers, providing feedback on their work, helping them grow their design career at UBS and inspiring them with your own UX deliverables
- Be a strong evangelist for the business value of design and help implement our dual-track agile process, including discovery and delivery activities
- Develop the visual style and interface of digital products based on user stories and design best practices
- Plan and facilitate ideation workshops along the design process to align the product-vision with the product owner and get all needed requirements of the product: e.g., journey mapping, design sprints, storyboarding or other design thinking methods
- Understand user needs and create actionable insights and personas enabled by user research, and synthesize these into tangible design solutions
- Build, test, and refine prototypes and conduct a design direction for products, services or journeys including prior wireframing
- Work closely work with cross-functional agile team members to improve (digital) products and journeys iteratively and continuously based on all phases of the design process
- Contribute to specifications for developers, and review the implementation of these specifications
Requirements
- Proven experience as UX Designer or similar role
- Experience managing large design teams and mentoring talent
- Previous experience planning and facilitating ideation workshops in agile environments
- Team player with an enthusiastic and proactive personality, agile mindset and strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and good attention to detail
- Strong active listening and communication skills to build networks and partnerships at all levels
- Some prior domain knowledge of / demonstrable interest in / affinity for financial products
- Experience with design software – particularly Figma
Key Skills
- UX design
- Team management
- Agile methodologies
- User research
- Prototyping
- Design thinking
- Figma
About Ubs
UBS is the world’s largest and the only truly global wealth manager, operating through four business divisions: Global Wealth Management, Personal & Corporate Banking, Asset Management and the Investment Bank. UBS is dedicated to putting its people first, with new challenges, a supportive team, opportunities to grow and flexible working options when possible.
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