UI/UX Designers

Senior UX Designer, VP – Charles River Development What We Are Looking For Charles River Development seeks an exceptional Senior UX Designer to lead the design of complex, enterprise‑grade user experiences across our investment management platform. This is a hands‑on product design role for someone who can frame ambiguous problems, shape solutions, and deliver detailed interaction designs for sophisticated workflows. The ideal candidate thinks holistically across products and systems, not just individual screens. They can create elegant, scalable solutions that fit within an established platform framework while improving usability, consistency, and efficiency for expert users. Why This Role Is Important To Us As a Senior UX Designer at CRD, you will partner closely with product managers, business analysts, and engineering leads to define business problems and shape solutions for products used by traders, portfolio managers, compliance professionals, and platform operations teams. You will work across one or more product areas within the Alpha platform and broader CRD ecosystem, helping design complex workflows for data‑rich enterprise applications. This role requires strong product thinking, excellent communication, and the ability to influence design quality from early concept through implementation. What You Will Be Responsible For Lead product features and initiatives through the full UX lifecycle, including discovery, workflow analysis, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, validation, and implementation support. Translate complex business requirements and ambiguous problem statements into clear, effective, user‑centered solutions. Design for enterprise workflows that are data‑intensive, multi‑step, and role‑sensitive, including scenarios involving dashboards, tables, configuration, drill‑down flows, and multi‑workspace tasking. Create low‑ and high‑fidelity prototypes, UX flows, interaction specifications, and developer‑ready design documentation that clearly communicates intended behavior, states, and edge cases. Lead cross‑functional design reviews from early concepts through delivery, building alignment with product and engineering stakeholders. Partner with engineers throughout implementation to clarify requirements, refine behavior, and preserve design quality under real‑world technical constraints. Use and help evolve the Alpha Design System and shared UX standards to improve consistency and reuse across products. Conduct and/or guide discovery activities such as user interviews, workflow analysis, usability testing, and evaluation of existing experiences. Education And Preferred Qualifications 8+ years of experience in UX, product design, or interaction design, including substantial experience with enterprise or B2B software. Experience designing products for the financial industry or similarly complex, domain‑heavy environments. Experience with data‑intensive applications, analytical tools, dashboards, and data visualization. Strong systems‑thinking skills and the ability to design across connected workflows, products, and user roles. Experience working within fast‑paced, cross‑functional product teams using iterative delivery practices. Familiarity with modern front‑end frameworks and implementation constraints, such as React‑based applications, is preferred. Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain detailed interaction models to product and engineering stakeholders. Expertise with Figma for design, prototyping, creating and using design systems. Ability to work across multiple initiatives without losing focus on priorities, dependencies, and design quality. Ability to operate as a full partner with product and engineering leaders in shaping both problem definition and solution direction. A Portfolio That Demonstrates A strong user‑centered design sensibility. A thoughtful approach to defining and improving complex workflows. The ability to create scalable interaction patterns for enterprise products. Clear communication of detailed behaviors, states, and functional flows. High‑quality prototypes and specifications suitable for engineering implementation. Salary Range $110,000 - $188,750 Annual. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law. #J-18808-Ljbffr State Street