Senior UX Design Lead - Advisory - Vice President

Morgan Stanley • New York, NY

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm. The Wealth Management (WM) Platforms organization manages industry-leading platforms across all WM channels and client segments to provide a unified digital experience, unlock growth, and deliver efficiencies for Advisors, Clients, and Institutions. The User Experience Design & Research team within WM Platforms collaborates with tech, compliance, marketing, and research to support the development and delivery of experiences that solve problems for real people. The Advisory Platform team designs tools and workflows that support the Firm's 'Path-to-Advice' strategy, helping Advisors structure and implement investment opportunities across all client segments. The team is embarking on a multi-year growth plan to deepen existing client engagement across all channels. This role involves working closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, business analysts, and development, to understand user needs and create seamless and intuitive experiences for Financial Advisors. Success in this role requires experience in simplifying enterprise complexity and setting direction for undefined, complex features and new projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in design or related field; master’s degree is a plus.
• 10 years of experience as a UX designer and as a key contributor to the success of products that have launched.
• An outstanding portfolio that demonstrates how you have created experiences that solved business and user needs.
• Fluency in Figma and the use of design systems.
• Comfortable with Rapid Prototyping (Figma Make, Claude, Lovable).
• Thrive in a collaborative, explorative environment and value being on a diverse team that you can bounce ideas off, get critical feedback from, and unite to mature design thinking in a large organization.
• Practice active listening and contribute to group situations (brainstorms, audits, critiques, whiteboard sessions, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Design confidently around Wealth Management concepts, translating domain complexity into clear, usable experiences without oversimplifying.
• Produce efficient, low-friction workflows that optimize speed, accuracy, and confidence.
• Define north-star journeys, service blueprints, and multi-quarter roadmaps aligned to business outcomes and platform constraints.
• Operate as a senior partner to Product, Engineering, Legal/Compliance/Risk, and Operations.
• Produce high-quality specs and prototypes.
• Produce IA for large-scale tools—navigation models, object/relationship modeling, scalable patterns, and cross-application consistency (especially where data and actions span multiple products).
• Have a solid understanding of how Artificial Intelligence capabilities can be applied both at the application design level as well as the UX asset production level (in Figma).
• Strategize and execute the product vision by being heavily involved in the end-to-end product design process.
• Surface the underlying needs and motivation of our users to ensure we achieve business goals and provide value.
• Work closely with our research team to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data and make value-driven design decisions which then translate into clear, simple UIs.
• Design holistic solutions that integrate seamlessly into our Wealth Management product ecosystem.

Benefits

• Comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry.
• Opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered.
• Ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior