UX Designer - Assistant Manager

Senior UX Designer

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior UX Designer to join our Digital Product Design team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing intuitive, scalable, and user-centered experiences across enterprise platforms, data-intensive products, and AI-enabled workflows. You will partner closely with Product Managers, Engineering, Business Stakeholders, and Design peers to transform complex business requirements into elegant user experiences.

As a senior member of the design team, you will contribute to UX strategy, information architecture, research, interaction design, usability testing, and end-to-end product delivery. You will also play a key role in shaping executive-facing communication and storytelling materials, helping translate design strategy, product vision, and business outcomes into compelling presentations for leadership audiences.

What You Will Do

·                Lead UX initiatives across complex enterprise and financial technology products.

• Design user-centered solutions for web-based applications and internal platforms.
• Create wireframes, user flows, journey maps, prototypes, and detailed design specifications.
• Translate business requirements, user needs, and research insights into actionable design solutions.
• Conduct user research, usability testing, heuristic evaluations, and competitive benchmarking.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Business teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Facilitate workshops, design reviews, and stakeholder alignment sessions.
• Advocate for accessibility and inclusive design principles, ensuring compliance with WCAG standards.
• Drive information architecture, navigation models, and content organization for complex workflows.
• Contribute to and promote design system adoption and governance.
• Mentor junior designers and cultivate a culture of design excellence and continuous learning.
• Effectively communicate design rationale and recommendations to diverse stakeholder groups.
• Act as a trusted design advisor across product teams and business functions.
• Support strategic initiatives involving AI-assisted experiences, workflow optimization, and operational efficiency.

Executive Communication & Design Leadership

·                Share responsibility for executive communication design and leadership presentations.

• Translate complex design concepts and data-driven insights into concise, visually compelling narratives for senior leadership.
• Partner with product and business leaders to prepare design reviews, roadmap presentations, and strategic storytelling artifacts.

What We Are Looking For

·                6+ years of professional experience in UX Design, Product Design, or Experience Design.

• Proven experience delivering multiple digital products from discovery through implementation.
• Strong expertise in interaction design, information architecture, usability testing, and user research.
• Experience working within enterprise software, financial services, SaaS, or complex workflow-driven applications.
• Ability to independently manage priorities and drive workstreams with minimal supervision.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
• Strong storytelling, presentation, and executive communication capabilities.
• Ability to balance analytical thinking with creativity and innovation.
• Demonstrated growth mindset and consultative approach to problem solving.
• Experience collaborating with global cross-functional teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in Figma and related design, prototyping, and collaboration tools.
• Experience leveraging and contributing to design systems.

Preferred Qualifications

·                Experience designing data-intensive, compliance-oriented, or operational workflow applications.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted user experiences and emerging design patterns.
• Experience presenting design recommendations to senior leaders and executive stakeholders.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design best practices.

Key Responsibilities

·                Wireframing and design specification creation.

• Interactive prototyping.
• User research planning and execution.
• Information architecture and workflow design.
• Competitor analysis and UX benchmarking.
• Usability testing and synthesis of findings.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Product and Engineering.
• Design system adherence and contribution.
• Executive presentation design and strategic storytelling.
• End-to-end product design ownership and delivery.

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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