Senior Interaction Designer - Financial Products

Bloomberg•New York, NY

75d•$160,000 - $210,000

About The Position

The Team: The UX team is responsible for uncovering insights about our users' needs and goals! We translate these insights into valuable and highly usable software solutions across a wide range of products. Through UX research and design, we accelerate our clients' access to data and insights and develop advanced user workflows. We bring deep experience in creating innovative solutions across multiple channels - desktop, web, and mobile. We continually enhance and evolve the company's pioneering software solution - the Bloomberg Terminal. In addition to the Terminal, we support other tools like premium desktop & web products and internal productivity tools. We are a team of researchers, interaction designers, visual designers, prototypers, and technical writers who partner with product and technology to make our design vision into reality! We are looking for an experienced Interaction Designer with a passion for making complex systems useful, usable, and delightful. As a member of the team you will closely partner with end users and subject matter experts and take ownership of a domain to envision and craft conceptual solutions, interaction design, and the overall user experience of our products.

Requirements

4+ years of experience as a UX or Product designer
A Graduate Degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Communication, or any design-related field
A track record of applying common User-Centered Design practices, including conducting user research to tackle challenging design problems. This also includes strong communication skills to advocate for the user's needs throughout the process.
Experience with designing complex user workflows, decision-support systems, large dataset visualizations and framework-level patterns, information architecture, usability research/analysis
Financial domain expertise in the enterprise/professional marketplace (trading systems, analysis tools, etc)
Project management skills to see projects through the design lifecycle from start to release. This includes the ability to proactively engage with business and engineering stakeholders as part of a cross-functional team
Willingness to mentor design team members

Nice To Haves

Financial domain experience in fixed income, credit, and/or private equity/private markets
Software development / engineering tools
AI-powered systems
Platform/infrastructure-level design
Experience engaging with highly-complex domains

Responsibilities

Use your analytical and conceptual thinking to translate user needs, business objectives and technology capabilities into innovative design solutions
Lead all aspects of the design process from customer research using qualitative and quantitative methods, conceptualizing, storyboarding, detailed design and working with engineering teams on implementing designs
Collaborate with business teams to adopt a user centered process and ground design decisions in a detailed understanding of the customer's workflow and needs. This could include conducting workshops with business and engineering stakeholders, subject matter experts, etc. Additionally, collaborating with engineers to support the development of products as per design specifications