Principal Product Designer UX

Posted 15 April by eFinancialCareers
Competitive salary
London , South East England
Permanent, full-time
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What you can expect

Are you excited at the thought of taking on complex design challenges? Are you interested in the financial and risk machinery which dries our economic system and delivers true value to our users?

We are looking for a Principal Product Designer (UX) to join our Experience Design team in London working on our flagship platform LSEG Workspace.

Our flagship platforms and products are used by many thousands of users across the globe. Traders, brokers, wealth analysts, C-level, portfolio managers, researchers, risk analysts, and many more use them in different ways, in different contexts, in different countries, in different workflows, and with different needs. Our users rely on our products to deliver real-time, highly complex information in a way that they need, when they need it. This is delivered via desktop, mobile and web. Our platforms and products lead the financial industry. They offer fantastic opportunities for designers to really push the bounds of what's possible, and deliver outstanding experiences for our customers.

The role is in the Workspace Experience Design team, based in London. The team is responsible for design across a wide range of systems, platforms and products. We work closely with both the proposition/strategy teams as well as the product management and technology teams. You will work closely with a core team of principal and senior designers who together have a great deal of experience working on complex desktop, mobile and web applications, and in designing for finance and risk professionals.

What you'll be doing
  • Following a user-centred design process to solve complex business problems that deliver maximum customer value
  • Conducting user research and defining the structural design of complex applications
  • Collaborating with Product, Engineering and Business teams across LSEG to inform and bring to life the product strategy
  • Representing the voice of the user in product decisions and being comfortable challenging the status quo
  • Collaborating with other members of the Experience Design team, including User Researchers, Service Designers, Content Designers and UI Designers
  • Ensuring deliverables are consistent with our design system and evolving it where possible
  • Collaborating closely with Engineers during the build of our solutions
  • Communicating design rationale and progress to peers and leadership
What you'll need
  • Significant hands-on experience in a UX Design role in complex products/domains, highly preferred in financial services
  • Expert knowledge of user-centred design methodologies
  • Bachelor's Degree in Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, a related field or equivalent practical experience
  • Strong communication, coaching, presentation skills. Yet humble in delivery
  • Have experience of building strong business relationships across an organisation
  • Enjoy seeing your work taken through the trials of implementation and into the users' hands.
  • Have a strong appetite for complexity, for thinking about operating systems, for grids, numbers, forms, and for disentangling workflows associated with managing and consuming data.
  • Expertise in user research and design methodologies to map the current experience and propose the future experience
  • Experience with enterprise-scale Design Systems
  • Portfolio demonstrating an expert level understanding and applied experience of product design in complex domain
We are an established multi-disciplinary full-spectrum Experience Design team who have had a major impact on LSEG products over the past several years. We are embarking on a new phase of growth, focusing on new major initiatives which will strengthen LSEG's status as the leading data aggregator and provider of high-quality information in the financial & risk professional world. If you share our values of collaboration, commitment to helping our users and each other, and a willingness to take the initiative and learn from mistakes, then we'd be very happy to hear from you.

Intrigued by some of the most challenging experience design opportunities? Come join us.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership , Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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