Senior Interaction Designer - UX Team

Location: New York

About the role

The UX team uncovers insights about our users’ needs and goals and translates them into valuable, highly usable software solutions across a wide range of products. Through UX research and design, we accelerate clients’ access to data and insights and develop advanced user workflows. We bring deep experience in creating innovative solutions across desktop, web, and mobile, continually enhancing and evolving the company’s pioneering software—the Bloomberg Terminal. In addition to the Terminal, we support other tools like premium desktop, web, mobile products, and internal productivity tools.

We are a team of researchers, interaction designers, visual designers, prototypers, and technical writers who partner with product and technology to turn our design vision into reality. We are looking for an experienced Interaction Designer with a passion for making complex systems useful, usable, and delightful. As a member of the team, you will closely partner with end users and subject matter experts to take ownership of a domain, envision and craft conceptual solutions, interaction design, and the overall user experience of our products.

Responsibilities

• Use analytical and conceptual thinking to translate user needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities into innovative design solutions
• Lead all aspects of the design process: customer research (qualitative and quantitative), conceptualizing, storyboarding, detailed design, and collaborating with engineering teams on implementation
• 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, including conducting workshops with stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Collaborate with engineers to support the development of products as per design specifications
• Mentor design team members

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a UX or Product designer
• Graduate degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Communication, or any design-related field
• Track record of applying common User-Centered Design practices, including conducting user research and usability research/analysis to tackle challenging design problems
• Experience designing complex user workflows, decision-support systems, or enterprise software, including framework-level patterns, information architecture, and/or large dataset visualizations
• Strong communication skills to advocate for user needs throughout the process
• Project management skills to see projects through the design lifecycle from start to release, including proactive engagement with business and engineering stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain and design experience in any of the following categories:
  • Financial domain experience, especially in fixed income and/or private equity/private markets
  • AI-powered systems
  • Software development/engineering tools
  • Platform/infrastructure-level design
  • Experience engaging with highly complex domains

Portfolio

We are interested in reviewing two of your design projects in detail. We would like to see artifacts that help us understand your design process and thinking across the full project lifecycle, such as:

• Customer research
• Personas
• Sketches
• User journeys
• Task flows
• Wireframes
• Storyboards
• Prototypes
• Success metrics

We want to see how you designed from a deep understanding of user workflow and walk through your work step-by-step as your user would. We would like to see how your process informed your design choices.

Pay

Salary range: $160,000 – $210,000 USD annual + benefits + bonus. The referenced salary range is based on the company’s good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training, and skill level.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and generous benefits plan, including:
  • Merit increases
  • Incentive compensation (exempt roles only)
  • Paid holidays and paid time off
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Short- and long-term disability benefits
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Life insurance
  • Various wellness programs