As a Vice President Experience Design in the Wealth Management Online Investing team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the user experience across our products and services. Leveraging your deep knowledge of design and research practices to lead strategically important initiatives and develop innovative solutions that align with business requirements and user needs. As a subject matter expert, collaborate with cross-functional teams, guide, and mentor junior designers, and foster a culture of inclusivity and accessibility. Your expertise in experience strategy and inclusive design will ensure that our offerings are not only visually appealing but also accessible and user-friendly, enhancing the overall customer experience.
Job responsibilities
- Develop and execute design/research strategies for complex projects and ensure alignment with business objectives and user needs across multiple product areas
- Diagram service flows and product features, design wireframes, and prototype interactions for key touchpoints as you lead end-to-end design initiatives within a specific domain.
- Drive the adoption of inclusive design practices and accessibility guidelines, mentor junior designers and foster a culture of diversity and inclusion
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate user experience design into the product development processes and ensure seamless and customer-centric solutions
- Analyze market trends, gather feedback from user research, and learn from data insights to inform design decisions and optimize user experiences across various platforms and channels
- Create strategic design deliverables such as strategy decks, customer journeys, visions of future experiences and evangelize these cross-product “blueprints” across teams
- Oversee upfront user research to better understand user needs and behaviors, and usability testing to find out how your solutions work for users in collaboration with Experience Researchers
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in user experience design or similar roles
- Demonstrated ability to create visual representations of user journeys, such as storyboarding, wireframes, and prototypes
- Demonstrated experience in inclusive design and accessibility guidelines, with the ability to incorporate diverse perspectives and abilities into design solutions
- Proven ability to develop experiences that meet or exceed the initial proposal of a product or experience, including the development of transformational innovation strategies and the creation of 'north star' representations to drive customer-centric decision-making
- Advanced technical literacy, including an advanced understanding of client-side technologies, APIs, microservices, and the components of the technology stack, as well as their impact on user experience
- Lead the delivery of successful shipped products, as a key partner with product, engineering, data, and other internal teams
- Can direct self and others in both planning and structuring the work, and executing on expected levels of quality
- Experience leading a program of work through full product development cycles in discovery, concepting, prototypes, specifications, and delivery
- Significant experience with user-centered and human-centered design approaches
- Expertise in Interaction Design, and strength in Visual/UI Design and Information Architecture
- Proficiency in adjacent skills such as User Research, UX Writing, Prototyping, and Service Design
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Design leadership or managerial experience
- Prior experience leading design initiatives for consumer facing mobile products and experience with investing is a plus
- Strong facilitation skills and experience employing a variety of methods and techniques to run complex design-led workshops