UX Design Team Lead

Urban Ridge Supplies•New York, NY

About The Position

Bloomberg’s UX team researches user needs and goals and turns those insights into usable software across desktop, web, and mobile. The team works on the Bloomberg Terminal, premium desktop and web products, and internal technology platforms, partnering with product and technology teams to deliver its design vision. The UX Design Team Lead leads designers for a Bloomberg business vertical. The role sets team strategy, balances near-term delivery with longer-term direction, and partners with Product, Engineering, and senior leaders to drive delivery, outcomes, and impact. The lead also advances department-wide UX initiatives, establishes team processes and practices, and mentors and coaches team members. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong design skills and the ability to make complex systems intuitive and valuable while bringing clarity to ambiguous problems. The lead partners closely with end users and subject matter experts, takes ownership of a domain, and shapes conceptual frameworks, interaction design, and the overall user experience for new products and major enhancements. The work spans research, design, collaboration with business and engineering teams, and support for implementation. Bloomberg seeks a collaborative, self-starting leader with a growth mindset.

Requirements

At least 2 years of experience as a UX people manager, with the ability to demonstrate leadership through hands-on design work when appropriate.
At least 4 years of experience as a UX or Product designer in an individual-contributor role.
A Bachelor’s or graduate degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Communication, or another design-related field.
Track record applying common user-centered design practices, including conducting user research to address difficult design problems.
Strong communication skills and ability to advocate for users’ needs throughout the design process.
Experience designing complex user workflows, decision-support systems, large-dataset visualizations, framework-level patterns, information architecture, and graphic or visual design.
Experience with usability research and analysis.
Project management skills to guide projects through the design lifecycle from start to release, including independently identifying needed information and planning how to gather and synthesize it.
Experience developing design team members.
Portfolio containing two design projects with artifacts from across each project lifecycle, such as research, personas, sketches, user journeys, task flows, wireframes, and storyboards; should also include detailed wireframes showing step-by-step workflows for complex problems and explain how the process informed design choices.
Do not share confidential or proprietary information or another party’s work product without proper consent.

Nice To Haves

Experience in institutional finance and the capital markets industry.
Knowledge of or experience with AI platforms, the software engineering domain, and engineering tools.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of designers for a Bloomberg business vertical, setting team strategy and balancing near-term delivery with longer-term direction.
Work closely with Product, Engineering, and senior leaders to drive delivery, outcomes, and impact.
Drive strategic UX department initiatives and define new team processes and practices.
Mentor, inspire, coach, and develop team members while maintaining design quality through hands-on contributions when appropriate.
Partner with end users and subject matter experts to own a domain and develop conceptual frameworks, interaction design, and overall user experiences for new products and major enhancements.
Translate user needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities into innovative design solutions.
Lead the design process from qualitative and quantitative customer research through conceptualization, storyboarding, detailed design, and collaboration with engineering on implementation.
Collaborate with business teams to adopt user-centered processes and ground design decisions in a detailed understanding of customer workflows and needs.
Conduct workshops with business teams, subject matter experts, and engineering; collaborate with engineers to support implementation in accordance with design specifications.
Build partnerships with cross-functional collaborators and continually identify ways to increase the team’s impact.