Blackrock
UX Product Designer - Aladdin Design, Director
New York, NY · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 14 days ago
A/B TestingUX ResearchUX DesignDesign SystemsAccessibilityProduct StrategyResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- Help shape the future of investment technology.
- Our team believes great enterprise software begins with a deep understanding of the people using it.
- You are accountable not just for experience quality, but for measurable outcomes including client adoption, workflow efficiency, risk reduction, and decision effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Lead UX strategy for complex product areas across the Aladdin platform.
- Drive discovery through customer research, workshops, design sprints, prototyping, and iterative validation.
- Use qualitative research, product analytics, and experimentation to inform design decisions.
- Influence product direction and executive decision-making through compelling storytelling, frameworks, and design rationale.
- Champion design quality, systems thinking, accessibility, and consistency across the platform.
- Leverage AI throughout the design process to accelerate research synthesis, concept generation, prototyping, and evaluation while maintaining high standards of design judgment.
- Mentor designers and contribute to the growth of the design practice through coaching, critique, and thought leadership, while remaining an individual contributor.
- Contribute to design capability, standards, and organizational evolution.
- support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
- At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work - enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience designing complex digital products, including significant experience with enterprise software.
- Demonstrated experience designing sophisticated financial products, investment platforms, private market platforms, trading systems, risk management tools, or similar financial technology solutions.
- Experience influencing product strategy and partnering with executive stakeholders for better outcomes for users.
- Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around user-centered outcomes.
- Experience working within Agile product development environments and cross-functional teams.
- Experience designing with an AI-first mindset, considering how intelligent systems can augment user workflows and decision-making.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- AI & Data (Required)
- Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.
- Required
- Experience leading design across interconnected product ecosystems, balancing local product needs with platform-wide consistency.
- Strong understanding of designing for investors and financial professionals in complex, highly regulated environments, with the ability to translate sophisticated investment workflows into intuitive, effective user experiences.
- Work samples demonstrating strategic thinking, systems design, and end-to-end problem solving across complex enterprise experiences.
- Expertise in human-centered design, interaction design, information architecture, prototyping, and UX research methodologies.
- Experience utilizing AI tools within the design process to enhance exploration, prototyping, and delivery.
Compensation
- For New York, NY Only the salary range for this position is USD$215,000.00 - USD$275,000.00.
Benefits
- Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses.
- Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and business leaders to shape product vision from concept through delivery.
- As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.
Company info
- At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.
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