Senior Interaction Designer - UX Team

Details

The UX team uncovers insights about users’ needs and goals and translates them into valuable, highly usable software solutions across desktop, web, and mobile products. The team supports the Bloomberg Terminal, premium desktop, web and mobile products, and internal productivity tools. Researchers, interaction designers, visual designers, prototypers, and technical writers partner with product and technology teams to deliver design solutions.

The Interaction Designer will work closely with end users and subject matter experts, take ownership of a product domain, and create conceptual solutions, interaction designs, and overall user experiences for complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Translate user needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities into innovative design solutions using analytical and conceptual thinking.
• Lead the complete design process, including customer research using qualitative and quantitative methods, conceptualization, storyboarding, detailed design, and collaboration with engineering teams on implementation.
• Collaborate with business teams to adopt a user-centered process and ground design decisions in a detailed understanding of customer workflows and needs.
• Conduct workshops with business and engineering stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Collaborate with engineers to support product development according to design specifications.
• Manage projects through the design lifecycle from discovery to release.
• 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 a related design field.
• Experience applying user-centered design practices, including user research, usability research, and analysis to solve challenging design problems.
• Experience designing complex user workflows, decision-support systems, enterprise software, framework-level patterns, information architecture, and/or visualizations of large datasets.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to advocate for users’ needs throughout the design process.
• Project management skills and the ability to proactively engage with business and engineering stakeholders as part of a cross-functional team.
• Experience engaging with highly complex domains is preferred.
• Experience in financial domains, especially fixed income or private equity/private markets; AI-powered systems; software development or engineering tools; or platform/infrastructure-level design is preferred.

Portfolio

Applicants should provide two design projects in detail, including artifacts that demonstrate the design process and thinking across the full project lifecycle. Examples include customer research, personas, sketches, user journeys, task flows, wireframes, storyboards, prototypes, and success metrics. Applicants should be prepared to explain how their process informed their design choices.

Applicants must not share or disclose confidential or proprietary information obtained through employment with another employer, or information that may be the work product of another individual or entity, without proper consent.

Benefits

Benefits may include merit increases, incentive compensation for exempt roles, paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability benefits, a 401(k) match, life insurance, and wellness programs.