UX Designer

(Please note- Portfolios are required for consideration for this role. Please include via PDF)

We're seeking someone to join our team as a UX Designer.

Wealth Management (WM) Platforms manages industry-leading platforms, across all WM channels and client segments, to provide a unified digital experience, unlock growth, and deliver efficiencies for Advisors, Clients, and Institutions. WM Platforms consists of nine sub-teams including: Field Experience & Platforms, Digital Client Experience & Platforms, Workplace Platforms, Automation & Workflow Solutions, Digital Trading & Investing, UX Design & Research, Strategy & Execution. Business Control & Support, and the Chief Operating Office.

The Morgan Stanley Institutional Securities UX team builds digital experiences for our key user bases: corporate, sovereign, investor and other institutional clients globally to help them provide best-in-class products and services in M&A, sales and trading, equity underwriting and debt financing. Our growing team of designers and researchers bring an entrepreneurial spirit to a leading global financial firm. We employ design thinking methods and a user-centered approach to solve real business problems. If you can bring clarity to complexity, design holistically in an immense product ecosystem, and have gone the extra mile to create delight, we want you!

• Working closely with the UX lead, help execute the product vision by being involved in every step of the end-to-end product design process
• Understand the underlying needs and motivation of our clients to ensure we achieve business goals and provide value to our clients
• Work closely with our research team to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data and make value-driven design decisions that translate into clear, simple UIs
• Create and present a variety of design deliverables (sketches, wireframes, user flows and prototypes) in a way that engenders confidence in you and your solutions with the team and the greater organization
• Form holistic solutions that integrate seamlessly into our Institutional Securities product ecosystem
• Design and deliver Desktop, Web, and Mobile solutions that are optimized for multiple applications and partner with engineers to translate designs into successful products
• Work closely with the larger firmwide UX team to share design best practices, align on patterns, and promote a design-centric culture at the firm
• Advocate for all user abilities by thoroughly testing design deliverables to meet WCAG ADA compliance

• You've spent 3+ years as a UX designer who was a key contributor to the success of products that have launched
• You have an outstanding portfolio that demonstrates how you have created experiences that solved business and user needs
• You have a bachelor's degree in design or related field preferably, master's degree or previous experience with working in financial industry is a plus
• Skill in developing rapid UI prototypes and proficiency working with Figma
• You thrive in a collaborative, explorative environment and value being on a diverse team that you can bounce ideas off of, get critical feedback from, and unite with to mature design thinking within a large organization
• You practice active listening and contribute to group situations (i.e. brainstorms, audits, critiques, whiteboard sessions, etc.)
• You have a relentless desire to validate assumptions and uncover a problem's root cause by testing, learning, and iterating
• You have a knack for balancing user goals, technology needs and business objectives and can clearly explain the rationale for your designs and how they achieve both
• You constantly seek opportunities to evangelize and promote design thinking in a large organization