Aladdin Wealth Tech, UX Designer, VP

About this role

BlackRock is one of the world's preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors around the world. BlackRock's mission is to create a better financial future for our clients. We have a responsibility to be the voice of the investor, and we represent each client fairly and equally. Constant communication with a diverse team of partners strengthens us and delivers better results for our clients. Continuous innovation helps us bring the best of BlackRock to our clients. BlackRock offers a range of solutions - from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world's capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.

Who We Are

Hello there!

We're Aladdin Wealth Tech. We are a FinTech company with a start-up vibe but some big-time resources. We are part of BlackRock, the largest asset manager on the planet ... that is also a $1B annual revenue enterprise software company. We create products for financial advisors, bankers, CIOs, risk managers, portfolio managers, and business leaders of leading wealth managers. We enable them to deliver better, more personalized portfolios to their clients and to differentiate and grow their wealth businesses. We are a global team of product, engineering, design, client, implementation, and analytics professionals pioneering the next generation of wealth tech capabilities.?

We are looking for an experienced Product Design / UX Design Lead to join our design team. This role will manage and lead user experience strategy and execution work across multiple Aladdin Wealth Tech's pillars, with a focus on our discretionary product personas. This individual will help advance our product vision in this area, set and maintain a high-standard for user experience, and drive workflow management, process governance and contribute to team culture. This role will manage a small group of UX and UI designers, work closely with a dedicated team of product managers, engineers, product marketers, QA, and client-facing partners.

About You

You are first and foremost an excellent craftsman, a UX leader and advocate. Experienced at employing design best practices, identifying and filling process gaps that empower cross-functional teams to not only evolve our UX practice, but ultimately ensure we are creating high quality products on behalf of our users. You seek insight into user needs to derive efficient, friendly interaction design. You understand the holistic journey a user takes to provide them with valuable tools for task completion. You are not afraid of challenging evidence, managing complexity, depth, and balancing the demands of a varied user base when crafting software.

You love owning big interaction problems and providing the thought leadership vital to drive them toward success by collaborating hand-in-glove with product owners and engineers. You're great at creating long-lasting relationships with direct reports and partners, helping manage the performance and careers of your team.

As a VP (Sr. UX Designer / Design Manager) You Will:

• Own and influence the design of tool(s) used by internal and external users.

• Help develop and implement UX strategies that align with business goals, ensuring a seamless user experience.

• Design detailed wireframes, journeys, info architecture, and prototypes

• Contribute to the design system by ensure design is consistent with our UX guidelines and approved interaction patterns

• Lead the design of user interfaces using exploratory and iterative design techniques, including heuristic evaluations, broad ideation, deep detailing,usability testing, and other forms of requirements discovery

• Conduct comprehensive user research, including user interviews, and usability testing to gather insights and identify pain points.

• Collaborate with key project team members, including UI designers, researchers, product managers, and technology leads to deliver end-to-end solutions.

• Manage a team of 3-5 designers and up-level their performance, craft, learningand career development goals

• Support the Head of Design in maintaininga strong team culture and filling gaps to upscale the larger design team

• Be a positive, friendly representative and evangelist for user-centered design.

Requirements :

Experience & Education

• 8+ years application design experience in fast-paced product environments

• BFA/MFA degree in graphic design, HCI or a related field

• At least 2 years managing and mentoring designers

Work Samples

• Portfolio samples that show deep UX thinking and sophisticated problem solving

• Candidates who proceed to in-person interviews will be required to perform a small UX design exercise, which they will then present to the team.

Expert-level Skills in:

• Developing UX artifacts such as wireframes, prototypes, site maps, user journeys

• Figma

• Detailing the work (i.e. functional specs, annotations, user stories, etc.)

• Communication and storytelling through presentation

• Ability to collaborate with development teams to ensure design implementation meets high quality standards

• Partnering with key stakeholders to identify, develop, and implement innovative processes to ensure that UX design/research efforts are efficient, repeatable at scale and that ultimately ensure production and release of effective and impactful design.

Strong Skills in:

• Leading a user-centered discovery phase for projects, such as running workshops and facilitating discussions with partners

• Working within lean/agile product development models

• Working with cross functional teams that are earlier in their UX evolution to establish and implement UX processes that ensure quality of design at scale.

• Experience facilitating or assisting user research and user testing - and subsequentlyidentifying user needs, actions, behaviors and emotions through research

• Managing the performance of designers, creating an inclusive, respectful and motivating environment

Design Experience with the Following Is a Plus, but Not Required:

• B2B offerings

• Enterprise desktop software

• Enterprise financial software

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents 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 and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.