Product Designer, AVP

Who We Are Looking For

Charles River for Private Markets is seeking a Senior Product Designer to collaborate with Product and Engineering to build new experiences that turn complex concepts and processes into simple and intuitive business outcomes for our private markets clients. The ideal candidate is curious, always seeking to challenge their own assumptions and biases, and back up their decisions with quantitative and qualitative data.

In this role you will shape the future of the product, lead design on major new initiatives, and help Charles River for Private Markets, a State Street Company fulfill its mission to accelerate transparency, accuracy, and liquidity in private markets.

• Lead a user-centered design process from concept all the way to release, measurement, and iteration that results in simple, impactful product experiences that have an impact on our metrics
• Partner with users, product and engineering to define and improve processes that enable us to identify problem spaces, brainstorm solutions, identify technical constraints, and ship work more efficiently
• Communicate your design work across the company to get feedback, inspire and excite, and drive forward conversations of what design excellence looks like for us
• Contribute to the growth, organization, and maintenance of our design system and component library
• Engage directly with customers to understand their wants and needs and comfortable leading virtual and in-person workshops

• Highly driven, determined & business oriented.
• Highly polished executive presence and sophistication to gain credibility with the firm's most senior professionals and provide leadership, guidance, and direction to a team.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver on assigned responsibilities through commitment to quality and attention to detail.

• 5 years of experience shipping impactful product design work; specific experience working on a fintech, data platform or BI tools a plus
• Great communication skills and ability to work with people from a variety of backgrounds
• A collaborative approach to design execution
• A bias for action, and a willingness to make it work in situations where you may have more or fewer resources at your disposal
• A portfolio that showcases your track record and dedication to continuous improvement
• Can give and receive design critique effectively
• Desire to work in a high-growth environment
• Experience with user research initiatives as part of product discovery
• Experience working within a component library system, and a demonstrated critical eye toward system maintenance and improvement
• Excitement for working on a fintech product, and an understanding of how modern enterprise product design is different from legacy enterprise design.
• Private markets experience is a plus

• Ability to travel as required for client engagements (-20%), including internationally

State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary in locations, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans among other perks. You’ll have access to flexible Work Program to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

We truly believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspective are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We…