UX Design Team Lead

Urban Ridge Supplies•New York, NY

6d•$250,000 - $280,000

About The Position

Bloomberg’s UX team uncovers users’ needs and goals and turns those insights into useful, highly 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 and impact. The lead also advances strategic UX initiatives, establishes team processes and practices, and mentors and develops team members. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong design skills and the ability to maintain quality while helping make complex systems intuitive and valuable. The lead partners with end users and subject matter experts, takes ownership of a domain, and shapes conceptual frameworks, interaction design, and the overall user experience of new products and major enhancements. The role leads research and design through implementation, and helps business teams adopt user-centered practices grounded in detailed understanding of customer workflows and needs.

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.
Bachelor’s or graduate degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Communication, or a design-related field.
Track record applying user-centered design practices, including user research to solve 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.
Ability to independently identify needed information and execute a plan to gather and synthesize it.
Experience developing design team members.
Portfolio presenting two design projects, artifacts across each project lifecycle, and detailed wireframes showing step-by-step workflows for complex solutions; explain how the process informed design choices.
Do not share confidential or proprietary information from other employment or work product belonging to another individual or entity without proper consent.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Set team strategy and balance immediate delivery needs with longer-term direction.
Work with Product, Engineering, and senior leaders to drive delivery, outcomes, and impact.
Drive strategic UX department initiatives and define team processes and practices.
Mentor, inspire, coach, and develop team members.
Contribute hands-on design work and uphold quality across team initiatives.
Partner with end users and subject matter experts to shape conceptual frameworks, interaction design, and user experiences for new products and major enhancements.
Translate user needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities into design solutions.
Lead the design process from qualitative and quantitative customer research through conceptualization, storyboarding, detailed design, and implementation with engineering teams.
Collaborate with business teams to adopt user-centered processes and ground design decisions in customer workflows and needs.
Conduct workshops with business teams, subject matter experts, and engineering.
Partner with engineers to support implementation in accordance with design specifications.
Build cross-functional partnerships and identify ways to increase the team’s impact.
Independently identify information needs and plan how to gather and synthesize information to carry projects through the design lifecycle from start to release.