UX Design Lead, Vice President

Financial management tools should demonstrate the same care and craft as consumer software, designed with contemporary user- and human-centered practices. UX Design Leads are core to the transformation of product development at JP Morgan Chase, operating as a peer and partner with Product Management and Engineering. In this role, you will be part of a multi-year transformation into the fin-tech future of institutional banking incorporating emerging technologies such as block chain, data science, machine learning and cyber-security into the Payments products we create.

As a UX Design Lead on our Payments Operations team, you have the understanding of the customer and business needs, foster strong collaboration with your peers, bring thoughtful planning and coordination across product development teams, tame complexity for our users, and participate in the full range of design practice activities, from up-front research, insights, and strategy to ideation, prototyping, and testing through to the delivery of final designs.

Our team, which sits within JP Morgan's institutional bank (serving corporate clients), leverages emerging technologies to develop and refine the tools considered most essential to the users that keep this business at the top of the industry.

Working as a valued member of a collaborative multidisciplinary team (User Research, Service Design, Visual Design, Product Managers, Business Stakeholders, Engineers) you will work closely with the business and users, following best practice User-Centered Design to deliver innovative and creative solutions to complex problems. 

Job Responsibilities

• Be responsible for delivery across a number of concurrent active projects and the efficient, scalable execution of your design direction, providing status and transparency to leadership 
• Contribute to design solutions within the guidelines of a common technology platform and brand in a proficient and sustainable manner
• Participate in upfront user research to better understand user needs and behaviors, and usability testing to see how your solutions work for users, with the support and guidance of Experience Researchers
• Hone your communications skills by presenting your work to a diverse selection of business stakeholders and the broader product and technology organization
• Design through wireframes, visuals, and prototypes at different levels of fidelity.  You will be required to ideate and concept prior to the full definition of a delivery milestone, leading workshops and collaborative design sessions
• Deliver work that is not only user-friendly, but which also produces results - measuring your work's value by identifying success criteria and performing user validation throughout the design process
• Leverage your knowledge and expertise in design thinking to plan and facilitate ideation and alignment workshops with project stakeholders
• Collaborate with and influence Product Owners, Business Sponsors, Strategists, Developers, and the rest of the design team.  You will play a key role to entrench a culture of design, helping realize the vision and defining end-to-end product experience
• Work closely with our Design System to contribute and produce patterns, as well as the development and refinement of our Visual Design Language
• Create next-generation Experiences, applying expertise within the fields of Information Architecture, Interaction Design, and Data Visualization to develop compelling experiences for our products

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant design discipline (e.g., Interaction Design, HCI, User Experience Design), certification from credible bootcamp or similar accelerated learning program, or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience
• Can direct self and others in both planning and structuring the work, and executing on expected levels of quality (role may or may not require management of associate level designers including 1:1s, professional development, performance reviews, etc.)
• Experience leading a program of work through full product development cycles in discovery, concepting, prototypes, specifications, and enablement
• Prior work involves leading design teams (with other UX Designers, UX Researchers, Visual and Service Designers) and cross-functional collaboration with senior Product Managers and Engineering leads
• Expertise in Interaction Design, and strength in Visual/UI Design or Information Architecture; Intermediate proficiency in adjacent skills such as User Research, UX Writing, Prototyping, and Service Design
• Strong facilitation skills and experience employing a variety of methods and techniques to run complex design-led workshops
• Has led new business thinking and strategy through their user-centered design work

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Prior experience designing applications within complex business domains (financial services, other)
• Advocate for Accessibility Guidelines and Inclusive Design practices
• Comfortable with structuring and planning design work in cross-functional contexts
• Able to show how their understanding of technical constraints and opportunities informed design solutions; Familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, frameworks such as React, and mobile UI standards