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About the Role

This is a hands-on leadership role for a senior design leader who thrives on solving complex problems, influencing product strategy, and elevating design excellence across cross-functional teams. You will help shape the future of the Aladdin platform by designing sophisticated enterprise experiences used by institutional investors, portfolio managers, traders, risk managers, private market investors, and operations teams around the world.

Responsibilities

Lead UX strategy for complex product areas across the Aladdin platform.
Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and business leaders to shape product vision from concept through delivery.
Translate business strategy, customer needs, and technical capabilities into intuitive, scalable user experiences.
Shape coherent platform experiences by identifying opportunities that span products, teams, and investment workflows.
Drive discovery through customer research, workshops, design sprints, prototyping, and iterative validation.
Use qualitative research, product analytics, and experimentation to inform design decisions.
Influence product direction and executive decision-making through compelling storytelling, frameworks, and design rationale.
Champion design quality, systems thinking, accessibility, and consistency across the platform.
Explore opportunities where AI and intelligent automation can enhance user workflows while maintaining clarity, trust, and human oversight.
Leverage AI throughout the design process to accelerate research synthesis, concept generation, prototyping, and evaluation while maintaining high standards of design judgment.
Define interaction models for AI-driven and data-intensive experiences
Mentor designers and contribute to the growth of the design practice through coaching, critique, and thought leadership, while remaining an individual contributor.
Contribute to design capability, standards, and organizational evolution.

Requirements

12+ years of experience designing complex digital products, including significant experience with enterprise software.
Demonstrated experience designing sophisticated financial products, investment platforms, private market platforms, trading systems, risk management tools, or similar financial technology solutions.
Experience leading design across interconnected product ecosystems, balancing local product needs with platform-wide consistency.
Strong understanding of designing for investors and financial professionals in complex, highly regulated environments, with the ability to translate sophisticated investment workflows into intuitive, effective user experiences.
Work samples demonstrating strategic thinking, systems design, and end-to-end problem solving across complex enterprise experiences.
Expertise in human-centered design, interaction design, information architecture, prototyping, and UX research methodologies.
Experience influencing product strategy and partnering with executive stakeholders for better outcomes for users.
Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around user-centered outcomes.
Experience working within Agile product development environments and cross-functional teams.
Experience utilizing AI tools within the design process to enhance exploration, prototyping, and delivery.
Experience designing with an AI-first mindset, considering how intelligent systems can augment user workflows and decision-making.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Experience designing AI-powered and data-intensive products, particularly in complex decision-support environments such as investment, risk, or portfolio workflows
Ability to design intelligent workflows that integrate data, analytics, and AI to support expert user decision-making
Strong understanding of designing for transparency, explainability, and trust in regulated financial systems
Experience partnering with Engineering and Risk to operationalize AI within real-world user workflows.
Familiarity with designing across structured and unstructured data domains, including alternative data and analytics platforms
Continuously evolve your practice by experimenting with new technologies and design methods as a way to improve quality and efficiency.
Designed AI-powered experiences that help users make better decisions while maintaining transparency, trust, and appropriate human oversight.
Helped define interaction patterns, design systems, or platform principles that enabled multiple teams to deliver more coherent user experiences.
Known for bringing clarity to ambiguous problem spaces and influencing organizations beyond the boundaries of your immediate product team.
Candidates progressing to final stages will be asked to present 2–3 case studies demonstrating impact on complex enterprise or financial systems, challenges overcome and trade-offs made, delivery of measurable user and business outcomes, and approach to system-level and platform design challenges.

Skills

Enterprise software design
Financial product design
Investment platform design
Private market platform design
Trading systems design
Risk management tools design
Financial technology solutions
Interconnected product ecosystem design
Human-centered design
Interaction design
Information architecture
Prototyping
UX research methodologies
AI tools utilization in design
AI-first design mindset
AI-powered product design
Data-intensive product design
Intelligent workflow design
Transparency, explainability, and trust in regulated financial systems
Designing across structured and unstructured data domains
Alternative data platforms
Analytics platforms
Systems thinking
Accessibility
Design systems
Platform principles
Facilitation
Communication
Agile product development

Location

New York, NY

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Director
12+ years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Salary/Compensations

USD$215,000.00 - USD$275,000.00

Benefits

Annual discretionary bonus
Healthcare
Leave benefits
Retirement benefits
Strong retirement plan
Tuition reimbursement
Comprehensive healthcare
Support for working parents
Flexible Time Off (FTO)

About the Company

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.
Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses.
Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees.
It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.
To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com.
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Equal Opportunity

BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
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BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities.
If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email Disability.Assistance@blackrock.com.
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BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.