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UX Designer, Advisory Solutions - Vice President

Company: Morgan Stanley
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: March 3, 2025

Job Description:

OverviewThe Morgan Stanley Wealth Management UX team builds digital experiences that help our clients manage their finances and monitor their investments easily on the Morgan Stanley and E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley platforms. Our growing team of designers and researchers bring an entrepreneurial spirit to a leading global financial firm. We employ design thinking methods and user-centered approaches 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!We are looking for a UX designer to work on our Financial Advisory team. This role will handle iterative, fast-moving design projects that support our world-renowned Wealth Management Advisory practice. You will create, test, and iterate on applications that will facilitate client-focused contractual portfolio decisions with our financial advisors.Once Here You Will...

  • Partner with product to define the vision and set the bar for quality standards while helping to improve work that does not meet this threshold
  • Design intuitive and elegant experiences that empower our users
  • Work closely with our research team to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data and make value-driven design decisions which then translate into clear, simple UIs
  • Able to independently choose design patterns based on strong rationale
  • Design holistic solutions that integrate seamlessly into our Wealth Management product ecosystem
  • 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 within the team and the greater organization
  • Play a critical role in designing user-centered solutions for our complex array of tools
  • Sit on cross-functional teams, working with product management, business analysts, and developmentRelevant experience and mindset---
    • An outstanding portfolio that demonstrates how you have created experiences that solved business and user needs
    • 8+ years of experience as a UX designer as a key contributor to the success of products that have launched
    • Mastery of strategic, hard, and soft UX skills
    • Bachelor's degree in design or related field; master's degree is a plus
    • Fluency in Figma
    • Ability to fully utilize and work with less skilled designers
    • 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 to mature design thinking in a large organization
    • You practice active listening and contribute to group situations (brainstorms, audits, critiques, whiteboard sessions, etc.)
    • You have a high tolerance for projects with ambiguity and the ability to set the direction for undefined, complex projects
    • You are resilient in the face of obstacles
    • You have a relentless desire to validate assumptions and uncover a problem's root cause by testing, learning, and iterating
    • You constantly seek opportunities to evangelize and promote design thinking in a large organization
    • You can manage multiple priorities with tight timelines
    • You are willing to roll up your sleeves and do hands-on work
    • You can glean insights from data and incorporate them into design solutions
    • Previous work experience in finance is a plusWHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 85 years. At our foundation are five core values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - that guide our more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you'll find trusted colleagues, committed mentors, and a culture that values diverse perspectives, individual intellect, and cross-collaboration. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry.We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
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Keywords: Morgan Stanley, Jersey City , UX Designer, Advisory Solutions - Vice President, Executive , Jersey City, New Jersey

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