This role requires a leader with a strong background in UI design for complex, data-driven financial tools. You’ll work directly with senior leadership to ensure our digital products deliver the highest standards of usability and design, with full visibility into organizational goals and strategies.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead and drive UI design strategy for enterprise-level financial products, collaborating with executive leadership, product teams, and developers to translate user needs into visual design solutions.
- Design intuitive, responsive, and visually engaging web and mobile user interfaces for investment platforms, ensuring they meet business, user, and regulatory requirements.
- Develop and maintain high-quality visual design systems to ensure consistency and scalability across all digital platforms.
- Conduct in-depth user research and usability testing to inform visual design decisions and improve user interfaces based on user feedback.
- Create wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes to communicate design concepts effectively to stakeholders and development teams.
- Ensure that all designs are aligned with the brand's aesthetic and provide a seamless, consistent user experience across all platforms.
- Advocate for design best practices, ensuring that all UI solutions adhere to the highest standards of accessibility, usability, and visual appeal.
- Work closely with developers to ensure that designs are implemented accurately and efficiently, maintaining design integrity throughout the development process.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand market trends, user needs, and feedback to refine and enhance UI design solutions.
- Present design concepts and updates to senior leadership, articulating the rationale behind design decisions and how they contribute to business and user goals.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 7+ years of professional UI design experience, with a strong portfolio showcasing leadership in designing visually compelling and user-centered digital platforms, particularly within finance, banking, wealth management, or asset management sectors.
- Proven experience in collaborating with executive leadership and having full visibility into organizational goals and strategies.
- Expertise in designing complex, data-rich, and user-friendly financial platforms that prioritize usability and aesthetics.
- Proficiency in UI design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, and prototyping tools like InVision or Axure.
- Strong understanding of UI design principles, visual design trends, typography, color theory, and grid systems.
- Experience working within agile development environments and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions and influence stakeholders at the senior leadership level.
- 3+ years experience working in financial services industry, including regulatory considerations, and how to design interfaces within these constraints. Preference in Wealth Management or Asset Management organizations.
- Ability to manage multiple design projects simultaneously and prioritize in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Experience with front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and how design translates to code.
- Familiarity with design systems and their implementation across large-scale organizations.