UX Design Team Lead

Bloomberg•New York, NY

5d•$250,000 - $280,000•Onsite

About The Position

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 technology platforms. We are a team of researchers, product designers, prototypers, and technical writers who partner with product and technology to make our design vision into reality! We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated UX Team Leader who will be responsible for leading a team of designers for one of Bloomberg’s business verticals. As a team leader, you will be responsible for setting team strategy, balancing near-term delivery needs with setting longer-term direction, and working closely with Product, Engineering, & senior leaders to successfully drive delivery, outcomes, & impact. You will also drive strategic UX department initiatives, define new team processes & practices, and mentor, inspire, and coach team members to reach their full potential. As a hands-on UX leader, you will need to have strong design skills to be able to contribute & uphold quality in the team’s initiatives. You should have a passion for making complex systems intuitive and valuable, and a proven ability to drive clarity through ambiguity. You will closely partner with end users and subject matter experts and take ownership of a domain to envision and craft conceptual frameworks, interaction design, and the overall user experience of new products and major enhancements.

Requirements

2+ years experience as a UX people manager with an ability to demonstrate leadership through hands-on design work when appropriate
4+ years of experience as a UX or Product designer (individual contributor)
A Bachelor’s or 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 tough design problems.
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, graphic/visual design, usability research/analysis
Project management skills to see projects through the design lifecycle from start to release.
Ability to independently identify what information you need and execute a plan to gather and synthesize it.
Experience developing design team members
Excellent collaborator
Self starter
Growth mindset

Nice To Haves

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

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 would include conducting workshops with business teams, subject matter experts, and engineering. Additionally, collaborating with engineers to support the build of products as per design specifications
Build Partnerships with cross-functional partners & identify areas to up-level the team’s impact continuously
Setting team strategy
Balancing near-term delivery needs with setting longer-term direction
Working closely with Product, Engineering, & senior leaders to successfully drive delivery, outcomes, & impact
Drive strategic UX department initiatives
Define new team processes & practices
Mentor, inspire, and coach team members to reach their full potential
Contribute & uphold quality in the team’s initiatives
Partner closely with end users and subject matter experts
Take ownership of a domain to envision and craft conceptual frameworks, interaction design, and the overall user experience of new products and major enhancements