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Senior Interaction Designer - Financial Products

Location

New York

Business Area

Engineering and CTO

Ref #

10047244

Description & Requirements

The Team:

The UX team is responsible for uncovering insights about our users’ needs and goals! We translate these insights into valuable and highly usable software solutions across a wide range of products. Through UX research and design, we accelerate our clients’ access to data and insights and develop advanced user workflows. We bring deep experience in creating innovative solutions across multiple channels - desktop, web, and mobile. We continually enhance and evolve the company’s pioneering software solution –. In addition to the Terminal, we support other tools like premium desktop & web 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 make 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 and take ownership of a domain to envision and craft conceptual solutions, interaction design, and the overall user experience of our products.

We’ll trust you to:

+ Use your analytical and conceptual thinking to translate user needs, business objectives and technology capabilities into innovative design solutions

+ Lead all aspects of the design process from customer research using qualitative and quantitative methods, conceptualizing, storyboarding, detailed design and working with engineering teams on implementing designs

+ 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. This could include conducting workshops with business and engineering stakeholders, subject matter experts, etc. Additionally, collaborating with engineers to support the development of products as per design specifications

You’ll need to have:

+ 4+ years of experience as a UX or Product designer

+ A Graduate Degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Communication, or any design-related field

+ A track record of applying common User-Centered Design practices, including conducting user research to tackle challenging design problems. This also includes strong communication skills to advocate for the user’s needs throughout the process.

+ Experience with designing complex user workflows, decision-support systems, large dataset visualizations and framework-level patterns, information architecture, usability research/analysis

+ Financial domain expertise in the enterprise/professional marketplace (trading systems, analysis tools, etc)

+ Project management skills to see projects through the design lifecycle from start to release. This includes the ability to proactively engage with business and engineering stakeholders as part of a cross-functional team

+ Willingness to mentor design team members

We’d love to see:

+ Domain and design experience in any of the following categories:

+ Financial domain experience in fixed income, credit, and/or private equity/private markets

+ Software development / engineering tools

+ AI-powered systems

+ Platform/infrastructure-level design

+ Experience engaging with highly-complex domains

Portfolio:

We are interested in reviewing two of your design projects in detail for this position. We would like to see artifacts from across the full project lifecycle. This may include, but should not be limited to: customer research, personas, sketches, user journeys, task flows, wireframes, storyboards, success metrics, etc. We are interested in seeing detailed wireframes illustrating a step-by-step user workflow for solutions that solve complex problems. We would like to see how your process informed your design choices.

Please do not, without proper consent, share or disclose to Bloomberg any confidential or proprietary information that you may have obtained in connection with employment with any other employer, or which may be considered the Work Product of any other individual or entity.

Salary Range = 160000 - 210000 USD Annually + 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.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Bloomberg is a disability inclusive employer. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for the recruitment process. If you would prefer to discuss this confidentially, please email [email protected]