Designer, Vice President

About this role

BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors around the world. BlackRock’s mission is to create a better financial future for our clients. We have a responsibility to be the voice of the investor, and we represent each client fairly and equally. Constant communication with a diverse team of partners strengthens us and delivers better results for our clients. Continuous innovation helps us bring the best of BlackRock to our clients. BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world’s capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.

As Sr. UX Interaction Designer, you will:

• Interview users / stakeholders and extract information from users thru inquisitive, thoughtful, and tactical questioning.

• Author user flows, user journeys, and journey maps.

• Prototype using a pre-defined UI pattern library using Figma.

• Draw, design, & prototype using Figma, with and without ready-made components, requiring in-app drawing skills.

• Experiencing working with established design systems and ready-made components.

• Collaborate with the Aladdin Design Team to apply UX governance across projects; collaborate and assist in the evolution of BlackRock design patterns where gaps arise.

• UX Research - Assist on the continued development of an action tracking framework to acutely monitor user actions, behaviors, patterns and ideate new experiences to automate cyclical, high-value, high frequent user actions thru predictive behavioral analysis and next generation UX-related automations. Guide technologists on what user scenarios to track and introduce ideas and methods to decrease time to task completion, overall process and workflow optimization.

• Extensive experience working with established design systems and design libraries, while acutely following established interaction design patterns.

• Innovate, conceptualize, design, and pilot new capabilities to simplify our clients’ business problems

• Work closely with stakeholders, end users, full stack developers, systems engineers, front-end developers, data scientists, financial modelers, program managers, platform operators, and client teams to design, prototype, assist in defining our product strategy and roadmap

• Learn new things and have fun as part of an awesome team

What you’ll do:

• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to drive the firm's platform transformation strategy

• Drive the product in the right direction, from strategic vision to roadmaps to design execution.

• Drive alignment and transparency of that vision, engaging in conversation with internal partners and end-users alike

• Partner with program managers and engineering leads to drive execution of that vision, sprint-by-sprint, across the product lifecycle

• Champion internal initiatives and drive new ways of working across the team

Who you are:

• You are an expert UX Principal, Designer, UX Manager, and mentor who is excited by the idea of contributing to our vision

• You have a hunger for UX, emerging technologies, smart UI, complex UI, and find advanced UI projects to be stimulating

• You have an affinity for data visualization or want to learn

• Fitts’s Law, Miller’s Law, Hick’s Law are familiar concepts to you.

• You have experience with data and/or analytic pipelines, in or out of FinTech

• You are a technologist at heart and curious by nature

• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including an ability to deliver presentations and communicate up and down an organization

• You know how to influence decision-making – at all levels and across contexts – within an organization

• You are comfortable with ambiguity, and finding signal from noise

• You love design and data, employing both to your approach to solve problems

You enjoy rolling up your sleeves and getting into the weeds of interaction design, wanting to understand the full day in the life of our users, and not just the screens you are assigned to create and author. You persevere where others do not. You enjoy working with GenAI, ChatGPT, etc.


Requirements for Consideration

• Strong Portfolio – Only candidates with exceptional portfolios will be considered. A password should be provided to view your work. We would like to see examples of high-fidelity comps, workflows, wired prototype boards, and user flows / user journey mapping artifacts. We are looking for someone who knows how to tackle very complex user interface design, such as enterprise platforms, query builders, AI agents, advanced automation tooling, and complex UI pattern experience. Portfolios filled with WP examples, need not apply.

• Strong Brand Experience – Candidates with multiple years at a Fortune 500 is preferred.

• Solid UX Fundamentals – You should have a solid understanding of UX Design Best Practices and should have no problem articulating design decisions with stakeholders and external clients. You should exhibit the ability to take subjectivity out of design decisions and rely more on UX fundamentals, split testing results, and data-driven decisions.

• Complex UI  - Examples of complex UI, smart UI, advanced filters, menu systems, accordions, multi-step workflows, modals, non-modals, conditional views, menus on demand, enterprise application UI, and data visualization are a plus.

For Atlanta, GA Only the salary range for this position is USD$148,000.00 - USD$196,500.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.