UX Designer, AVP - Finance and Operations Technology
Blackstone · New York, NY · Yesterday
Finance$140k–$200k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Lead UX design initiatives across multiple Finance & Operations applications and product workstreams.
- Partner with Product Managers and Engineering teams to define product vision, user workflows, and experience strategies.
- Conduct user research, stakeholder interviews, workflow analysis, and usability testing to identify user needs and opportunities for improvement.
- Create user journeys, task flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that enable intuitive and efficient experiences.
- Translate complex financial and operational processes into simple, scalable, and elegant user interfaces.
- Identify opportunities to improve consistency and usability through adoption of design systems and shared UX patterns.
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle to ensure high-quality implementation of designs.
- Leverage user feedback, analytics, and business insights to inform design decisions and prioritization.
- Present design concepts and recommendations to stakeholders across technology and business organizations.
- Champion user-centered design principles and advocate for best practices across the product development process.
- Contribute to the continuous evolution of the Investor Portal design system and overall user experience framework.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience in UX, Product Design, Interaction Design, or related disciplines.
- Bachelor's degree in Design or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design work, including research, problem definition, workflow design, and user interface design.
- Experience designing complex web-based applications and workflow-driven enterprise products.
- Experience working with, contributing to, and scaling enterprise design systems, including reusable components, patterns, and accessibility standards.
- Proficiency with modern design and AI-enabled prototyping tools such as Figma.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design methodologies and design thinking principles.
- Experience designing decisions effectively to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience collaborating within Agile product development environments.
- Strong problem-solving, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience managing multiple initiatives simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail.