Principal Product Designer

About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

Role Description:

Are you passionate about design and how it builds value for both customers and businesses? Do you understand sophisticated environments, such as professional financial industries?

Come and join us in a dynamic, stimulating industry that has global reach and impact.

Our user-centred approach keeps us passionate about delivering to our customers what they need. We are focused on designing the most beautiful, accessible, and valuable experiences in complex financial systems.

You will create new and innovative design solutions that address the very particular needs of our users. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team working across all stages of the product lifecycle.

Our best designers champion user-needs in their work, bringing project partners and team members with them to deliver intuitive and innovative experiences.

What you can expect:

As a Principal Product Designer for our flagship platform LSEG Workspace, you will be leading a team of designers to deliver maximum customer value. This is a hybrid, player-coach role. You are an expert in user-centred design methodologies, ensuring we create solutions across multiple, related product areas which provide a coherent, seamless experience for our users. You will be working closely with Design Leadership to improve our Design organisation. And you’ll be partnering with senior members across Business, Product and Development to establish long-term relationships which help us deliver on our shared outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Following a user-centred design process to solve complex business problems that deliver maximum customer value
• Conducting user research and defining the structural design of complex applications
• Collaborating with Product, Engineering and Business teams across LSEG to inform and bring to life the product strategy
• Representing the voice of the user in product decisions and being comfortable challenging the status quo
• Collaborating with other members of the Product Design team, including User Researchers, Service Designers, Content Designers and UI Designers
• Ensuring deliverables are consistent with our design system and evolving it where possible
• Collaborating closely with Engineers during the build of our solutions
• Communicating design rationale and progress to peers and leadership
• Involved in recruitment, improving team competencies and working with individuals to grow their career

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

• Significant hands-on experience in a UX Design role in complex products/domains, highly preferred in financial services
• Expertise in user research and design methodologies to map the current experience and propose the future experience
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Are highly creative, detail-oriented, passionate about delivering the best user experience possible.
• Track record of driving the user experience across highly complex enterprise problems with measurable success
• Excellent communication skills
• Portfolio demonstrating an expert level understanding and applied experience of product design in complex domain
• Bachelor's Degree in Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, a related field or equivalent practical experience

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