Aladdin Wealth Tech, UX Designer, VP

BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors around the world. BlackRock’s mission is to create a better financial future for our clients.

We have a responsibility to be the voice of the investor, and we represent each client fairly and equally. Constant communication with a diverse team of partners strengthens us and delivers better results for our clients. Continuous innovation helps us bring the best of BlackRock to our clients.

BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world’s capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs. Who We Are We’re Aladdin Wealth Tech.

We are a FinTech company with a start-up vibe but some big-time resources. We are part of BlackRock, the largest asset manager on the planet … that is also a $1B annual revenue enterprise software company. We create products for financial advisors, bankers, CIOs, risk managers, portfolio managers, and business leaders of leading wealth managers.

We enable them to deliver better, more personalized portfolios to their clients and to differentiate and grow their wealth businesses. We are a global team of product, engineering, design, client, implementation, and analytics professionals pioneering the next generation of wealth tech capabilities. We are looking for an experienced Product Design / UX Design Lead to join our design team.

This role will manage and lead user experience strategy and execution work across multiple Aladdin Wealth Tech’s pillars, with a focus on our discretionary product personas. This individual will help advance our product vision in this area, set and maintain a high-standard for user experience, and drive workflow management, process governance and contribute to team culture. This role will manage a small group of UX and UI designers, work closely with a dedicated team of product managers, engineers, product marketers, QA, and client-facing partners.

About You You are first and foremost an excellent craftsman, a UX leader and advocate. Experienced at employing design best practices, identifying and filling process gaps that empower cross-functional teams to not only evolve our UX practice, but ultimately ensure we are creating high quality products on behalf of our users. You seek insight into user needs to derive efficient, friendly interaction design.

You understand the holistic journey a user takes to provide them with valuable tools for task completion. You are not afraid of challenging evidence, managing complexity, depth, and balancing the demands of a varied user base when crafting software. You love owning big interaction problems and providing the thought leadership vital to drive them toward success by collaborating hand-in-glove with product owners and engineers.

You’re great at creating long-lasting relationships with direct reports and partners, helping manage the performance and careers of your team. As a VP (Sr. UX Designer / Design Manager) You Will: • Own and influence the design of tool(s) used by internal and external users. • Help develop and implement UX strategies that align with business goals, ensuring a seamless user experience. • Design detailed wireframes, journeys, info architecture, and prototypes • Contribute to the design system by ensure design is consistent with our UX guidelines and approved interaction patterns • Lead the design of user interfaces using exploratory and iterative design techniques, including heuristic evaluations, broad ideation, deep detailing, usability testing, and other forms of requirements discovery • Conduct comprehensive user research, including user interviews, and usability testing to gather insights and identify pain points. • Collaborate with key project team members, including UI designers, researchers, product managers, and technology leads to deliver end-to-end solutions. • Manage a team of 3-5 designers and up-level their performance, craft, learning and career development goals • Support the Head of Design in maintaining a strong team culture and filling gaps to upscale the larger design team • Be a positive, friendly representative and evangelist for user-centered design.

Experience & Education • 8 years application design experience in fast-paced product environments • BFA/MFA degree in graphic design, HCI or a related field • At least 2 years managing and mentoring designers Work Samples • Portfolio samples that show deep UX thinking and sophisticated problem solving • Candidates who proceed to in-person interviews will be required to perform a small UX design exercise, which they will then present to the team. Expert-level Skills in: • Developing UX artifacts such as wireframes, prototypes, site maps, user journeys • Figma • Detailing the work (i.e. functional specs, annotations, user stories, etc.) • Communication and storytelling through presentation • Ability to collaborate with development teams to ensure design implementation meets high quality standards • Partnering with key stakeholders to identify, develop, and implement innovative processes to ensure that UX design/research efforts are efficient, repeatable at scale and that ultimately ensure production and release of effective and impactful design. Strong Skills in: • Leading a user-centered discovery phase for projects, such as running workshops and facilitating discussions with partners • Working within lean/agile product development models • Working with cross functional teams that are earlier in their UX evolution to establish and implement UX processes that ensure quality of design at scale. • Experience facilitating or assisting user research and user testing – and subsequently identifying user needs, actions, behaviors and emotions through research • Managing the performance of designers, creating an inclusive, respectful and motivating environment Design Experience with the Following Is a Plus, but Not Required: • B2B offerings • Enterprise desktop software • Enterprise financial software