UX Design Team Lead

Details

The UX team is responsible for uncovering insights about our users’ needs and goals and translating those insights into valuable, highly usable software solutions across desktop, web, and mobile. The team supports the Bloomberg Terminal, premium desktop & web products, and internal technology platforms. The team includes researchers, product designers, prototypers, and technical writers who partner with product and engineering to deliver design vision into reality.

Role summary

We are seeking a highly skilled, hands-on UX Team Leader to lead a team of designers for one of Bloomberg’s business verticals. The role requires setting team strategy, balancing near-term delivery with longer-term direction, working closely with Product, Engineering, and senior leaders to drive delivery and impact, and driving strategic UX initiatives, processes, and practices. You will mentor and coach team members and contribute to design work to uphold quality.

Responsibilities

• Translate user needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities into innovative design solutions using analytical and conceptual thinking.
• Lead all aspects of the design process: customer research (qualitative and quantitative), conceptualizing, storyboarding, detailed design, and working with engineering teams to implement designs.
• Collaborate with business teams to adopt a user-centered process and ground design decisions in a detailed understanding of customer workflows; conduct workshops with business teams, subject matter experts, and engineering.
• Partner with engineers to support building products according to design specifications.
• Define team processes and practices, drive strategic UX department initiatives, and continuously identify opportunities to up-level the team’s impact.
• Mentor, inspire, coach, and develop design team members.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience as a UX people manager with the ability to demonstrate leadership through hands-on design work.
• 4+ years of experience as a UX or Product designer (individual contributor).
• Bachelor’s or Graduate Degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Communication, or a related design field.
• Track record applying User-Centered Design practices, including conducting user research (qualitative and quantitative) and advocating for user needs.
• Experience designing complex user workflows, decision-support systems, large dataset visualizations, framework-level patterns, information architecture, graphic/visual design, and usability research/analysis.
• Project management skills to drive projects through the design lifecycle from start to release; ability to independently identify information needs and execute plans to gather and synthesize it.
• Experience developing and growing design team members.

Nice to have

• Experience in the institutional finance domain and capital markets industry.
• Knowledge or experience with AI platforms, the software engineering domain, and engineering tools.

Portfolio

Applicants should provide two design projects that include artifacts across the project lifecycle (research, personas, sketches, user journeys, task flows, wireframes, storyboards, etc.) and detailed wireframes illustrating step-by-step user workflows for complex solutions.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary Range: 250,000 - 280,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus.
The company offers a comprehensive benefits plan 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) with match, life insurance, and various wellness programs. The company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.