Senior Product Designer

As a Senior Product Designer on the Investment Management Group's Platform Experience team, y ou'll play a vital role in shaping the future of the IMG Platform and transforming the experience for front office teams across Vanguard. You'll b e cent ral in the full design lifecycle end-to-end - from shaping problems and running discovery through to execution, release, and continuous improvement while balancing strategic thinking with hands - on execution. You're c omfortable w ith both a big picture and detaile d leve l, wor king with the lead experience designer and researcher to influence product direction . The Product designer defines user journeys and craft s high quality, production ready UI that meets a high bar fo r usa b ility , consistency, and visual polish across interactions and workflows. We're looking for a designer who thrives on untangling complex challenges, questions existing approaches when needed, and is driven to deliver industry leading user experiences.

Responsibilities:

• The end-to-end design process across elements of the IMG Platform, driving work from discovery and problem framing through to delivery, iteration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Data, and other designers and researchers across the full product lifecycle to explore ideas, test assumptions, and ship meaningful outcomes.
• Design complex user flows, interactions, and high fidelity, production ready UI with the level of detail and clarity needed for efficient, high-quality implementation.
• Work hands-on to translate emerging AI capabilities into practical, usable product experiences - shaping flows, interactions, and interfaces that make complex behavior understandable.
• Create low and high-fidelity designs and prototypes - from early UX concept exploration through to final UI - to validate ideas and support delivery decisions.
• Advocate for users by identifying opportunities to reduce complexity, challenge assumptions, and influence product direction with a strong user centered perspective.
• Collaborate with the research team to plan and run user research, including usability testing across concepts and high-fidelity designs, to refine solutions and ensure decisions are informed by user insights.
• Contribute to the IMG Design System by creating, evolving, and maintaining reusable components, patterns, and guidance that support consistency at scale.
• Produce clear, practical design artefacts and documentation that enable smooth collaboration and efficient handover to engineering.
• Stay across market trends, competitor patterns, and emerging technologies, bringing relevant insights back into design and product thinking.
• Seek out feedback early, participate actively in design critiques, and contribute thoughtful feedback to continuously raise design quality.
• Support and mentor less experienced designers, sharing craft, process, and practical ways of working.

• Experience in product design, UX, UI, or interaction design (digital, SaaS, or platform products)
• Undergraduate degree or an equivalent combination of training and experience in a creative or technical field
• Experience designing complex workflows in data-rich products
• Ability to lead design work independently and partner with stakeholders to deliver outcomes
• Strong UX/UI design skills, including experience using Figma (or similar tools)
• Experience conducting or supporting user research activities
• Experience using and contributing to a design system
• Strong product thinking - able to balance user needs, business outcomes, and technical constraints
• Ability to work from problem definition through to polished design solutions
• Experience working in cross-functional, agile product teams
• Ability to influence product and delivery decisions through design collaboration and leadership
• Clear, effective communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience using AI tools to support design and prototyping activities
• Experience in fintech, wealth, trading, or other regulated domains
• Understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript