Senior Product Designer, Vice President

State Street is looking for a highly-motivated, visually biased, versatile Senior Product Designer, Vice President to join our user experience design team. State Street Product Designers have a tremendous responsibility in defining the product and experience strategy, understanding and communicating user needs, and working with teams across multiple areas to prototype and build new digital experiences. We are looking for an experienced designer who can transform large-scale, complex problems into intuitive, simple, and impactful products.

We know that the success of our business depends on our ability to deliver exceptional customer experiences, and collaborate with engineers, product owners, and others across the company to bring them to life. This role can be performed in a hybrid model, where there is a balance of working from home and office.

• Drive end-to-end design for State Street's financial products, ensuring cohesive UX
• Conduct user/product research, translate insights, and create user-centric solutions tailored to financial professionals
• Deliver high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and wireframes for complex financial interfaces
• Partner with product managers, engineers, and financial experts at State Street, defining requirements
• Analyze data and iterate on designs for improvement, with a focus on accuracy and security
• Foster design excellence within the context of financial design
• Research technology and industry trends that can enhance State Street's product offerings, including exploring how the benefits of AI can be integrated into design practice and product solutions
• Present design concepts to stakeholders that advocate for effective user solutions
• Manage design projects to successful completion within State Street's regulatory environment
• Perform user research: interviews, surveys, usability testing, and data analysis, with experience in financial user research preferred
• Run design thinking or ideation sessions with business teams to gather meaningful data
• Develop interactive prototypes with Figma, Principle, Axure, or similar
• Structure and organize content, especially for complex financial data
• Apply typography, color theory, layout, and visual hierarchy, with an understanding of data visualization
• Help design and maintain component libraries with the State Streets Design System team

• Utilize Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects)
• Design by default for ADA/WCAG compliance following guidelines and best practices
• Familiar working in Agile/Scrum project framework
• Demonstrate strong presentation and articulation of design decisions
• Solve problems through critical thinking and creative solutions
• Incorporate analytics and user feedback into design decisions
• Possess basic HTML/CSS knowledge
• Grasp Agentic/GenAI fundamentals and their impact on UX/UI and the financial industry
• Exhibit basic understanding of financial products and services

• 8+ years as experience designer, with demonstratable SME in UX/UI related skills
• Degree in Design (Interaction, Graphic, Product), HCI, or related field a plus
• Experience working within a large, regulated enterprise
• Front-end development experience a plus Experience designing complex financial or data applications a big plus

• Solid understanding of emerging LLM and GenAI prompting best practices and how they can accelerate and elevate design practices
• Motion design experience a plus

Our technology function, Global Technology Services (GTS), is vital to State Street and the key enabler of our business's delivery of data and insights to our clients. We're driving the company's digital transformation and expanding business capabilities using industry best practices and advanced technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence, and robotic process automation. We offer a collaborative environment where technology skills and innovation are valued in a global organization.

We're looking for top technical talent to join our team and deliver creative technology solutions to help us become a next-generation, end-to-end financial services company. Join us if you want to grow your technical skills, solve real problems, and make your mark on our industry.

What we do. State Street is one of the world's largest custodian banks, asset managers, and asset intelligence companies. From technology to product…