Interaction Designer

Senior Interaction Designer - UX Team
Location
New York
Business Area
Engineering and CTO
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Description & Requirements
The UX team is responsible for uncovering insights about our users’ needs and goals. We translate these insights into valuable and highly usable software solutions across a wide range of products. Through UX research and design, we accelerate our clients’ access to data and insights and develop advanced user workflows. We bring deep experience in creating innovative solutions across multiple channels - desktop, web, and mobile. We continually enhance and evolve the company’s pioneering software solution – the Bloomberg Terminal. In addition to the Terminal, we support other tools like premium desktop, web, mobile products and internal productivity tools. We are a team of researchers, interaction designers, visual designers, prototypers, and technical writers who partner with product and technology to turn our design vision into reality!
We are looking for an experienced Interaction Designer with a passion for making complex systems useful, usable, and delightful. As a member of the team you will closely partner with end users and subject matter experts and take ownership of a domain to envision and craft conceptual solutions, interaction design, and the overall user experience of our products.
We’ll trust you to:
Use your analytical and conceptual thinking to translate user needs, business objectives and technology capabilities into innovative design solutionsLead all aspects of the design process from customer research using qualitative and quantitative methods, conceptualizing, storyboarding, detailed design and working with engineering teams on implementing designsCollaborate with business teams to adopt a user centered process and ground design decisions in a detailed understanding of the customer’s workflow and needs. This could include conducting workshops with business and engineering stakeholders, subject matter experts, etc. Additionally, you will collaborate with engineers to support the development of products as per design specifications
You’ll need to have:
4+ years of experience as a UX or Product designerA Graduate Degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Communication, or any design-related fieldA track record of applying common User-Centered Design practices, including conducting user research & usability research/analysis to tackle challenging design problemsExperience with designing complex user workflows, decision-support systems, or enterprise software, and designing framework-level patterns, the information architecture, and/or large dataset visualizationsStrong communication skills to advocate for the user’s needs throughout the processProject management skills to see projects through the design lifecycle from start to release. This includes the ability to proactively engage with business and engineering stakeholders as part of a cross-functional teamWillingness to mentor design team members
We’d love to see:
Domain and design experience in any of the following categories:Financial domain experience, especially in fixed income and/or private equity/private marketsAI-powered systemsSoftware development / engineering toolsPlatform/infrastructure-level designExperience engaging with highly complex domains
Portfolio:
We are interested in reviewing two of your design projects in detail for this position. We would like to see artifacts that help us understand your design process and thinking across the full project lifecycle. This may include, but should not be limited to: customer research, personas, sketches, user journeys, task flows, wireframes, storyboards, prototypes, success metrics, etc. We want to see how you designed from a deep understanding of user workflow and walk through your work step-by-step as your user would. We would like to see how your process informed your design choices.
Please do not, without proper consent, share or disclose to Bloomberg any confidential or proprietary information that you may have obtained in connection with employment with any other employer, or which may be considered the Work Product of any other individual or entity.
Salary Range = 160,000 - 210,000 USD Annual + Benefits + BonusThe referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.
We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.
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