State Street is a global leader in investment management, and they are seeking a Senior UX Designer to lead the design of enterprise-grade user experiences across their investment management platform. The role involves collaborating with product managers and engineers to create user-centered solutions for complex workflows, enhancing usability and consistency in the Alpha platform.
Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements:
- 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
- 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, dependencies, and design quality
- Ability to operate as a full partner with product and engineering leaders in shaping both problem definition and solution direction
- Experience designing B2B or fintech products—especially data-intensive applications
- Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks and implementation constraints, such as React-based applications