Do you have a passion for leading the design of digital products customers love? Would you like to use your talents and experience to help shape the future of the financial services industry? Then you might be right with us!

As a Senior UX Product Designer at Vanguard, we'll look to you to champion dynamic user experiences and use your expertise to deliver them. You will be an integral part of the Vanguard Retail Public Site team's ambitious initiatives to support our mission - doing the right things for investors and telling the story of Vanguard's product and services in a way that is simple, intuitive and delightful.

A strong candidate will leverage the opportunity to jump into highly visible workstreams that drive significant impact. You'll need excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to achieve agreement with partners and stakeholders. Your impact will reach far beyond our clients and our business to set new standards for the whole industry.

This role is remote and will be working EST hours. Contract duration is 6 months.

What you'll do

• Design world-class experiences and client solutions across multiple digital channels to meet the diverse needs of our investors

• Create relevant deliverables including user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity design and proto-types partnering with strategists, researchers, writers, and product managers.

• Collaborate with UX Strategists, UX Researchers, Product Managers, and other Designers to continually improve the experience of our users

• Partner with cross-divisional teams and business leaders to deliver designs, prototypes, and documentation, informed by user response and research

• Present design solutions to project teams, partners, and stakeholders. Ensures the success of the strategy and the ability to champion the best possible user experience.

• Utilize design thinking principles to build engaging customer experiences and craft design with elegant simplicity

• Keep up to speed with developments in technology and devices to ensure our interactive solutions meet user demand and work across all platforms

• Collaborate with the other designers across teams to ensure consistency of design patterns

• Visually interpret and apply design system components into your designs, and actively collaborate in Design Systems components iterations

• Understand and apply brand design guidelines

• Deliver final UI designs ready for responsive web and native apps

• Responsible for the Development handover and documentation, ensuring the teams have access to prototypes, assets, and flows.

• Use frameworks like data and hypothesis-driven design

• Ensure designs are inclusive and meet accessibility requirements

• Support the communication of design deliveries/features to stakeholders

What you will need

• 4+ years of experience creating web and/or product design experience

• Strong wireframing and visual design skills in the context of component-based and responsive design practice

• Proficiency in modern design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Abstract and Adobe Creative Suite

• Strong understanding in user-centered design principles and practices

• Ability to proactively frame problems, work toward the solution with others, and defy conventional solutions if needed

• Excellent communication skills (storytelling, visualization) and the ability to get buy-in on those ideas within a large organization.

• Proven ability to design-lead a project from concept to completion.

• Expert at using data (both quantitative and qualitative) to inform design.

• Experience working in an agile environment

• Experience in creating and maintaining design libraries

• Online portfolio with recent work and/or case studies preferred