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About the Role

Northern Trust is seeking a Principal Product Designer to lead strategic design efforts on our flagship client facing wealth management platform. This role is a key contributor to transforming how wealth management clients engage with our advice and financial services, ensuring agile delivery of high-quality financial service solutions and seamless experiences for high-net-worth clients and their advisors. The designer will lead the design experience and maturity of our product design system, Storybook components, and Figma Library to improve client trust and perception of the firm's digital sophistication.

Responsibilities

Accelerate product delivery by increasing the availability of reusable, production-ready components, templates, patterns, and page frameworks.
Improve consistency across advisor, client, prospect, and operational experiences through standardized interaction and visual patterns.
Strengthen alignment between future-state experience vision, product roadmaps, and implementation through continuous Storybook enhancement.
Reduce long-term technical and design debt created by delivery-driven compromises.
Increase operational efficiency by reducing duplicate component development and fragmented experience patterns.
Improve scalability of the platform by creating extensible component architectures.
Increase development efficiency through improved component documentation, implementation guidance, governance, and code reuse.
Expand enterprise design system integration to ensure greater consistency across platforms, business domains, and delivery teams.
Continuous accessibility maturity by systematically remediating gaps and aligning digital experiences with evolving accessibility standards and best practices.
Helps to establish an open culture of optimism, experimentation, curiosity, and rapid prototyping.
Leads multidisciplinary teams to work together with a shared purpose to deliver great design that addresses user’s needs.
Achieves success through trial and experimentation, recognizes that prototyping can be done at various levels of fidelity, and has experience doing and leading work.
Comfortable synthesizing multiple and sometimes conflicting inputs into a common point-of-view.
Designs and specifies user interfaces and information architecture using human-centered techniques including observational studies, client and partner interviews, and usability testing.
Has a passion for developing others and will help to identify talent and build teams with a lens to how different personalities and capabilities could fit together on a project to create real impact.
Looks outside for inspiration around new approaches and tools and has a desire to build bridges to corporate innovation initiatives and the broader design community.

Requirements

12+ years demonstrated work experience delivering digital experiences.
Educated in design or related field, formally or though comparable training.
Design thinking and UI/UX best practices, as demonstrated in a portfolio of professional work.
Experience working with a cross-functional team or large-scale software development lifecycle, preferably in an agile environment.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity.

Skills

Human-Centered Design
UI/UX best practices
Low-fidelity sketching
Information architecture
Wireframe development
Usability testing
Research planning
Competitive analysis
Presentation skills
Storytelling skills
Collaborative tools
Communication tools

Location

Chicago, IL

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

Principal

Education Level

Degree in design or related field, or comparable training

Salary/Compensations

$137,400 - $233,600 USD

Benefits

Retirement benefits (401k and pension)
Health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability)
Paid time off
Parental and caregiver leave
Life & accident insurance
Other voluntary and well-being benefits
Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component

About the Company

Northern Trust is a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services.
Founded in 1889, the company is guided by principles of Service, Expertise, and Integrity.
With over 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, Northern Trust serves sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Northern Trust offers a flexible and collaborative work culture with a strong history of financial strength and stability.
The company encourages movement within the organization, has accessible senior leaders, and is committed to an inclusive workplace and community assistance.
Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of its culture.

Equal Opportunity

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities.
It is the policy and practice of Northern Trust to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.
Northern Trust does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion or belief, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, disability or age.
All employment decisions will be made in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our obligations under the law and codes of practice.
This includes human resources’ decisions relating to recruitment, terms and conditions of employment, transfers, promotions and access to learning and development.
The Northern Trust Company affords equal opportunity in all phases of employment without regard to an individual's age, race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic tests and information, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected status.