Senior UX Designer - Global Investment Office

Overview

The Morgan Stanley Wealth Management UX team builds digital experiences that help our clients manage their finances and monitor their investments easily on the Morgan Stanley and ETRADE from Morgan Stanley platforms. Our growing team of designers and researchers bring an entrepreneurial spirit to a leading global financial firm. We employ design thinking methods and user-centered approaches to solve real business problems. If you can bring clarity to complexity, design holistically in an immense product ecosystem, and have gone the extra mile to create delight, we want you!

We are looking for a UX designer to work on our Global Investment Office and Planning team. This role will handle iterative design projects that supports Wealth Management financial advisors on portfolio strategy and navigating global markets with their clients through creating applications that leverage financial advisor expertise across asset classes and investment positioning.

Once Here You Will...

• Partner with product to define the vision and set the bar for quality standards while helping to improve work that does not meet this threshold

• Design an intuitive and elegant experiences that empower our users  

• Work closely with our research team to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data and make value-driven design decisions which then translate into clear, simple UIs  

• Able to independently choose design patterns based on strong rational

• Design holistic solutions that integrate seamlessly into our Wealth Management product ecosystem 

• Create and present a variety of design deliverables (sketches, wireframes, user flows and prototypes) in a way that engenders confidence in you and your solutions within the team and the greater organization  

• Play a critical role in designing user-centered solutions for our complex array of tools

• Sit on cross-functional teams, working with product management, business analysts, and development

Relevant experience and mindset…

• An outstanding portfolio that demonstrates how you have created experiences that solved business and user needs

• 5-7 years of experience as a UX designer as a key contributor to the success of products that have launched

• Mastery of strategic, hard, and soft UX skills

• Bachelor's degree in design or related field; master’s degree is a plus

• Fluency in Figma

• Ability to fully utilize and work with less skilled designers

• You thrive in a collaborative, explorative environment and value being on a diverse team that you can bounce ideas off of, get critical feedback from, and unite to mature design thinking in a large organization

• You practice active listening and contribute to group situations (brainstorms, audits, critiques, whiteboard sessions, etc.)

• You have a high tolerance for projects with ambiguity and the ability to set the direction for undefined, complex projects

• You are resilient in the face of obstacles

• You have a relentless desire to validate assumptions and uncover a problems’ root cause by testing, learning, and iterating

• You constantly seek opportunities to evangelize and promote design thinking in a large organization

• You can manage multiple priorities with tight timelines

• You are willing to roll up your sleeves and do hands-on work

• You can glean insights from data and incorporate them into design solutions

• Previous work experience in finance is a plus

Why Work at Morgan Stanley?

Besides a competitive salary, work life balance, a clear career path, and great benefits, we take the well-being and work satisfaction of our employees seriously. That is why we put a lot of effort towards creating a safe space for people to be vulnerable, share work, and ask questions that will help them both to grow individually and move their projects forward. You will be encouraged to bring your own perspective to conversations, and we will help you understand and put into practice what you naturally do best by amplifying each other’s strengths.     

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WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and mor