Product Designer, AVP

Who we are looking for
State Street is looking for a highly motivated, visually biased, versatile Product Designer to join our Global Experience Design (GXD) team. State Street Product Designers have a tremendous responsibility in defining the product and experience strategy, understanding and communicating user needs, and working with teams across multiple areas to prototype and build new digital experiences. We are looking for experienced designers who love to transform large-scale, complex problems into intuitive, simple, and impactful products. We know that the success of our business depends on our ability to deliver exceptional customer experiences, and we need designers who can collaborate with engineers, product owners, and others across the company to bring them to life.

This role can be performed in a hybrid model, where you can balance working from home and the office to meet your needs and role requirements.

What you will be responsible for

As Product Designer, you will

• Drive end-to-end design for State Street's financial products, ensuring cohesive UX
• Help conduct user/product research, translate insights, and create user-centric solutions tailored to financial professionals
• Deliver high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and wireframes for complex financial interfaces
• Partner with product managers, engineers, and financial experts at State Street, defining requirements
• Contribute to State Street's design system, ensuring consistency within financial platforms
• Analyze data and iterate on designs for improvement, with a focus on accuracy and security
• Foster design excellence within the context of financial design
• Research technology and industry trends that can enhance State Street's product offerings, including exploring how the benefits of AI can be integrated into finance solutions
• Present design concepts to stakeholders that advocate for effective user solutions
• Manage design projects to successful completion within State Street's regulatory environment

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Utilize Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects)
• Perform user research: interviews, surveys, usability testing, and data analysis, with experience in financial user research preferred
• Develop interactive prototypes with Figma, Principle, or similar
• Structure and organize content, especially for complex financial data
• Apply typography, color theory, layout, and visual hierarchy, with an understanding of data visualization
• Help build and maintain component libraries in State Streets Design System
• Design for ADA/WCAG compliance following guidelines and best practices
• Familiar working in Agile/Scrum project framework
• Demonstrate strong presentation and articulation of design decisions
• Solve problems through critical thinking and creative solutions
• Incorporate analytics and user feedback into design decisions
• Possess basic HTML/CSS knowledge
• Exhibit basic understanding of financial products and services

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years Designer experience, with demonstratable UX/UI skills
• Degree in Design (Interaction, Graphic, Product), HCI, or related field a plus

• Experience working within a large, regulated enterprise
• Front-end development experience a plus
• Experience designing complex financial or data applications a big plus

Additional optional requirements

• Basic understanding of emerging Agentic/GenAI skills and practices with an eye towards how they can accelerate and elevate design practices
• Motion design experience helpful

Please provide a link to your design portfolio (or attach a PDF) with any necessary passwords.

Salary Range:

$90,000 - $157,500 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings