Senior UI Designer

Overview

We want to guide them at each important financial step in their lives so they can go forward with stability and confidence. We are a growing team of designers and researchers who bring an entrepreneurial spirit to a leading global financial firm. By infusing design thinking methods throughout our process, we solve real business problems by putting clients at the center of our products.

As a senior UI designer, you will report to the design system manager and contribute to a centralized design system, collaborating extensively with designers, engineers, and product owners. You should have comparable experience contributing to a design system and its ongoing evolution based on usage, project needs and client feedback.

Once here you will

• Maintain and promote the Morgan Stanley Online design system

• Create documentation for design and development teams (UI design guidelines, best practices, and standards)

• Promote inclusive design, designing for equity and accessibility

• Conduct comprehensive accessibility reviews and testing to ensure WCAG 2.0 Level AA compliance

• Partner closely with UX designers to ensure design consistency across the platform

• Contribute to UI solutions from concept to final hand-off to engineering

• Articulate design recommendations to product stakeholders

• Form strong partnerships with engineering teams to create frictionless design implementation

• Maintain processes tools for UX/engineering team to utilize our design system

• Deliver responsive designs that work across platforms such as mobile, tablet and notebook

Relevant experience and mindset

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

• 3 years’ experience as a UI designer as a key contributor to the success of products that have launched

• Fluency in Sketch and Invision

• You thrive in a collaborative, explorative environment and value being on a diverse team

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

• You have a high tolerance for complex projects with lots of ambiguity and 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