Senior Product Designer VP, Hybrid

$155,000 - $230,000/Yr

State Street Corporation - Boston, MA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Boston, MA

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

State Street is seeking a highly-motivated Senior Product Designer to join their UX design team. This role involves defining product and experience strategies, understanding user needs, and collaborating with various teams to create impactful digital experiences. The designer will be responsible for transforming complex problems into intuitive products, ensuring exceptional customer experiences, and working in a hybrid model that balances remote and office work.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product owners, user experience professionals, and engineers to identify new product opportunities and define problems & goals.
• Assist in the planning and execution of user research and usability testing.
• Contribute to new feature definition and exploration from concept through execution.
• Produce and oversee the creation of wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and production quality designs.
• Create and evolve consistent affordances across product families to enhance usability.
• Partner with and direct other designers and developers to deliver user-friendly mobile-first customer experiences.
• Own designs across the entire product development lifecycle from concept to production.
• Advocate for a clean, simple user-centered interface.
• Help grow a diverse and talented team focused on collaboration and optimal customer experience.
• Ensure quality and consistency of work assigned to design team members.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of the State Street Design System and component library.

Requirements

• 8+ years industry experience in innovating digital product design.
• Agile critical thinker with a passion for navigating and resolving complexity and ambiguity.
• Demonstrates high level of client focus, service-mindset, and ownership.
• Experience/aptitude in UX design, including creating sitemaps, wireframes, user journeys, and prototypes.
• Experience in launching products/experiences in a large production program with product owners, engineering, and design.
• Ability to understand user behavior and motivations using qualitative and quantitative research methods.
• Experience working with design systems and understanding the benefits of re-use and design standardization.
• Ability to build consensus around creative vision and defend decisions with research or industry best practices.
• Experience in design thinking/human-centered design process.
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and negotiate outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience building relationships and influencing senior leadership.
• Proficient in FIGMA, with experience in Adobe Creative Suite and prototyping tools.
• Degree or Master's degree in design, UX, industrial design, HCI, or related field.

Nice-to-haves

• A background designing complex financial or data applications.
• Understanding of web standards, capabilities, and best practices (HTML/CSS/JavaScript).
• Motion design experience.

Benefits

• Hybrid work model allowing balance between home and office work.