User Experience Product Design, Specialist

Vanguard Group, Inc.

$80K — $110K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum five years of experience in user experience design, with a preference for product design experience.
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent in a creative or technical field.

Responsibilities

  • Design complex user flows, wireframes, and prototypes to enhance user experience on mobile and web.
  • Develop UX architecture strategies that align with business and marketing goals.
  • Collaborate with teams to prioritize UX efforts based on user needs and business objectives.
  • Incorporate user data into design processes and validate concepts through experimentation.
  • Analyze market trends and user behavior to inform UX strategies and product direction.
  • Advocate for user-centered design solutions while staying updated with new technologies and design trends.
  • Train and mentor junior staff in UX best practices and offer guidance throughout projects.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work within a dedicated onboarding product family focused on enhancing user experience.
  • Collaborative environment with multiple departments and teams.
  • Engagement with cutting-edge technologies and design trends in the financial services sector.
  • A chance to influence UX standards and practices across the department.
Full Job Description
This role will contribute in a UX capacity to the Onboarding product family for the Participant Experience. This team ensures that 401k participants log in to the digital experience, confirm or adjust their payroll deductions and annual increase, and enroll in their plan before landing on the Participant Dashboard.

Core Responsibilities
  • Designs complex user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and UI elements to deliver a seamless user experience across mobile and web platforms, while utilizing established brand standards.
  • Develops user experience interface architecture strategies to support and improve the user interface. Leads cross-family initiatives to meet business and marketing goals.
  • Partners with cross-departmental teams and business leaders to prioritize UX efforts that align with business objectives. Helps translate user needs and feedback into actionable product features. Coordinates and delivers design, prototype, and documentation to improve the user experience.
  • Collaborates with research and data analytics teams to incorporate quantitative and qualitative data into the design process, ensuring decisions are informed by user insights. Leverage experimentation to validate hypothesis across the feasibility, desirability, and viability spectrum.
  • Analyzes market trends, competitive analysis, OKRs, and user behavior to develop UX strategies that inform design decisions and product direction.
  • Advocates for user-centered design solutions that evolve with changing business goals and user needs, while keeping a close eye on emerging technologies and design trends.
  • Ensures our UX practices align with industry standards and yield minimum waste. Trains and mentors junior staff in best practices of user experience design. Provides guidance, training, and motivation.
  • Develops and leverages a professional network across the enterprise to foster collaboration within the department to support department-wide initiatives, and to advocate for UX having a voice in the decision-making and planning process
  • Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.


Qualifications
  • Minimum five years of industry/field experience in user experience design. Product design experience preferred.
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience in a creative or technical field.

Special Factors

Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

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