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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 involves collaborating with cross-functional product teams, facilitating human-centric design methodologies, and ensuring agile delivery of high-quality financial service solutions for high-net-worth clients and their advisors. The position offers a culture of design excellence, continuous learning, and career growth opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design experience and maturity of our product design system, Storybook components, and Figma Library.
- Improve client trust and perception of the firm's digital sophistication through a cohesive, polished, and premium user experience.
- Ensure design assets, components, and experience standards evolve with the changing digital product and service landscape.
- 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.
- 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 for greater consistency across platforms, business domains, and delivery teams.
- Continuously mature accessibility by remediating gaps and aligning digital experiences with evolving accessibility standards.
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
- Recognize, predict and incorporate use cases and user interactions into design
- Low-fidelity sketching
- Information architecture
- Wireframe development
- Usability testing
- Research planning
- Competitive analysis
- Presentation skills
- Storytelling skills
- Collaborative/communication tools
- Growth mindset
- Proactive approach to challenges
Location
- Chicago, IL
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
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 more than 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.
- Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and the company is committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting communities.
- 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.