UI​/UX Designers

Senior UX Designer, VP
- Charles River Development What we are looking for:

Charles River Development seeks an exceptional Senior UX Designer to lead the design of complex, enterprise-grade user experiences across our investment management platform. This is a hands-on product design role for someone who can frame ambiguous problems, shape solutions, and deliver detailed interaction designs for sophisticated workflows.

The ideal candidate thinks holistically across products and systems, not just individual screens. They can create elegant, scalable solutions that fit within an established platform framework while improving usability, consistency, and efficiency for expert users.

This role requires deep strength in user experience design, information architecture, interaction design, workflow design, and modern UI implementation patterns. Experience designing B2B or fintech products—especially data-intensive applications—is strongly preferred.

Why this role is important to us:

As a Senior UX Designer at CRD, you will partner closely with product managers, business analysts, and engineering leads to define business problems and shape solutions for products used by traders, portfolio managers, compliance professionals, and platform operations teams.

You will work across one or more product areas within the Alpha platform and broader CRD ecosystem, helping design complex workflows for data-rich enterprise applications. These products often involve dense information displays, multi-step tasks, advanced configuration, and high-consequence user decisions.

You will also help drive consistency across products by applying and evolving shared UX patterns and the Alpha Design System. This role requires strong product thinking, excellent communication, and the ability to influence design quality from early concept through implementation.

What you will be responsible for:

Lead product features and initiatives through the full UX lifecycle, including discovery, workflow analysis, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, validation, and implementation support

Translate complex business requirements and ambiguous problem statements into clear, effective, user-centered solutions

Design for enterprise workflows that are data-intensive, multi-step, and role-sensitive, including scenarios involving dashboards, tables, configuration, drill-down flows, and multi-workspace tasking

Create low- and high-fidelity prototypes, UX flows, interaction specifications, and developer-ready design documentation that clearly communicates intended behavior, states, and edge cases

Lead cross-functional design reviews from early concepts through delivery, building alignment with product and engineering stakeholders

Partner with engineers throughout implementation to clarify requirements, refine behavior, and preserve design quality under real-world technical constraints

Use and help evolve the Alpha Design System and shared UX standards to improve consistency and reuse across products

Conduct and/or guide discovery activities such as user interviews, workflow analysis, usability testing, and evaluation of existing experiences

Education and preferred qualifications:8+ years of experience in UX, product design, or interaction design, including substantial experience with enterprise or B2B software

Experience designing products for the financial industry or similarly complex, domain-heavy environments

Experience with data-intensive applications, analytical tools, dashboards, and data visualization

Strong systems-thinking skills and the ability to design across connected workflows, products, and user roles

Experience working within fast-paced, cross-functional product teams using iterative delivery practices

Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks and implementation constraints, such as React-based applications, is preferred

Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain detailed interaction models to product and engineering stakeholders

Expertise with Figma for design, prototyping, creating and using design systems.

Ability to work across multiple initiatives without losing focus on priorities,…