
VP, Product Design
State Street
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Clifton • New Jersey • United States
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Salary
💰 $125,000 - $215,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Drive end-to-end design for State Street's financial products, ensuring cohesive UX
- Conduct user/product research, translate insights, and create user-centric solutions tailored to financial professionals
- Deliver high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and wireframes for complex financial interfaces
- Partner with product managers, engineers, and financial experts at State Street, defining requirements
- Analyze data and iterate on designs for improvement, with a focus on accuracy and security
- Foster design excellence within the context of financial design
- Research technology and industry trends that can enhance State Street's product offerings, including exploring how the benefits of AI can be integrated into design practice and product solutions
- Present design concepts to stakeholders that advocate for effective user solutions
- Manage design projects to successful completion within State Street's regulatory environment
- Perform user research: interviews, surveys, usability testing, and data analysis, with experience in financial user research preferred
- Run design thinking or ideation sessions with business teams to gather meaningful data
- Develop interactive prototypes with Figma, Principle, Axure, or similar
- Structure and organize content, especially for complex financial data
- Apply typography, color theory, layout, and visual hierarchy, with an understanding of data visualization
- Help design and maintain component libraries with the State Streets Design System team
Requirements
- 8+ years as experience designer, with demonstratable SME in UX/UI related skills
- Degree in Design (Interaction, Graphic, Product), HCI, or related field a plus
- Experience working within a large, regulated enterprise
- Front-end development experience a plus
- Experience designing complex financial or data applications a big plus
- Familiar working in Agile/Scrum project framework
- Utilize Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects)
- Solving problems through critical thinking and creative solutions
- Incorporate analytics and user feedback into design decisions
- Possess basic HTML/CSS knowledge
- Grasp Agentic/GenAI fundamentals and their impact on UX/UI and the financial industry
- Exhibit basic understanding of financial products and services
Benefits
- insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
- retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
- paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
- access to our Employee Assistance Program
- incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
- eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
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Hard Skills & Tools
UX designUI designuser researchprototypingdata analysisHTMLCSSdesign thinkingdata visualizationAgile
Soft Skills
critical thinkingcreative problem solvingcollaborationcommunicationproject management
Certifications
Degree in DesignDegree in HCI