Senior User Experience Designer, Vice President

London, England, United Kingdom

12/19/2024

About This Role

Job background

We are looking for a Senior User Experience Designer to join our growing digital team. This role will require you to span from strategy to launch, bringing a talent for simple and clear design, systems thinking, and seamless user experiences to help our professional clients accomplish their goals while keeping the focus on business objectives.

Candidates for this role must possess strong organizational skills with relevant user experience expertise, preferably in a regulated industry. The ability to progress things independently as well as work in a team environment is crucial, while being able to solve problems quickly and maintain creativity in a fast-paced environment. You’ll be a customer-first advocate who is a confident communicator, comfortable working through ambiguity, and not easily ruffled.

Primary Responsibilities

• Transform ideas, business opportunities, research and creative vision into tangible experiences that provide clear, usable, useful and desirable outcomes for users.
• Continuously design innovative approaches to visualizing data and communicating information that facilitates understanding of sophisticated financial concepts.
• Fully consume and become a SME on the design system by partnering with the team, encouraging its adaptation, and providing influence on future needs.
• Expertly create wireframes, site maps, user journeys; detailing work including annotations, prototypes, functional specifications.
• Consistently introduce new insights that increase team efficiency and add value.
• Collaborate with key project team members, including content strategist, product managers and technology leads to deliver end-to-end solutions, and ensure projects are well defined, high impact, and successfully executed.
  
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ sustained professional experience in digital design, as a practicing designer in either product related or agency environments designing consumer facing applications, sites.
• Strong portfolio of professional work with clear demonstration of your role and contributions on each project.
• Skilled in all aspects of visual design from concept to production.
• Strong understanding of content.
• Effectively act on internal feedback, testing results to iterate and deliver more value for our user and business.
• Ability to think multiple steps ahead, anticipate what’s needed, and take actions.
• Ability to influence senior/executive cross-functional partners and resolve challenges.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong critical thinking ability — able to connect the dots / big picture.
• Strong work ethic and time management skills with dedication to meeting or exceeding expectations despite contending priorities.
  
  

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Our Benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.