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ID #19754739
State New York
City New york city
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source BlackRock
Showed 2021-09-17
Date 2021-09-16
Deadline 2021-11-14
Category Software/QA/DBA/etc
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User Interface (UI) Designer - Aladdin WealthTech, Associate

New York, New york city, 10055 New york city USA

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About this role

Who We Are

We're Aladdin WealthTech. We are a FinTech company with a start-up vibe but some big-time resources. We are part of BlackRock, the largest asset manager on the planet that is also a $1B annual revenue enterprise software company. We create products that help financial advisors and their clients build financial plans and portfolios to achieve some of life's most important moments: buying a home, sending your kids to college and retirement. We believe in the power of BlackRock's world-class portfolio analytics AND the importance of the human connection between advisor and client.

We are looking for mid-level User Interface (UI) Designer to join a team focused on the Advisor Center experience. BlackRock's Advisor Center is committed to supporting financial advisors with market insights and resources to help grow their practice. By offering a range of investment options and analytic tools powered by our Aladdin technology, we help advisors build portfolios that provide financial well-being to their clients. Our design team is spread across Atlanta, New York City, and San Francisco.

You will be joining a product team with a start-up feel and a global impact. Aladdin WealthTech provides financial advisors, and BlackRock's wealth advisory teams, with a suite of experiences that affords them portfolio construction, analysis and diagnostic capabilities. We work hard, enjoy each other's company during and after work and are passionate about the potential of our technology to improve financial outcomes for clients. We like our mash-up of FinTech start-up and market-leading financial services company and we think that you might like it, too!

Interested in learning more? Reach out to our recruiting team and let's get to know each other!

Location for this role: Atlanta, GA or New York, NY

The Role

Our User Interface Designers work with teams across engineering, UX, product, marketing, and research. You will employ UI design techniques to enhance existing experiences, create new ones and be an integral part of optimizing our design system.

Role/Responsibilities:
  • Create innovative, beautiful and thoughtful designs in collaboration with design lead, UX designer, product owners, partners, and engineering.
  • Design everything from design system components, data-dense user interfaces, data visualizations to express your vision.
  • Document specs and standards for engineering and lead visual QA of deliverables, ensuring perfection of in-production designs, enforce standards, provide detailed feedback and follow through with engineering and product management when necessary.
  • Work with UX and Research or conduct your own informal testing to validate design decisions and inform new thinking for key features.
  • Present your designs and rationale to our partners
  • Align with designers across multiple design systems to stay up to date, connected, and consistent, highlighting gaps and suggesting improvements where necessary.

Basic Qualifications:
  • A portfolio which showcases your visual design craft, and work across complex mobile and web applications.
  • Minimum 2-3 years' experience in similar design role, delivering data-heavy digital designs as part of multi-functional teams including engineering, design and product management, with at least 2 projects where you owned the UI design.
  • Proficiency in Sketch, InVision, Figma.
  • Solid understanding of elements of visual design: Typography, Iconography, Color Theory, Layout and Composition
  • Strong UI design skillset, including; identifying problem statements, researching industry standards, solution generation, high-fidelity design creation and iteration.
  • Experience working on the delivery and production side of projects including applying design systems, contributing to pattern libraries, producing assets for developments and visual QA of in-production designs.

Bonus Qualifications:
  • Experience creating data visualizations and/or designing products that have innovated in visualizing large datasets.
  • Prior experience creating products in the financial technology space = banking, payments, investing.
  • Motion/Animation experience is a plus.
  • Knowledge of HTML, CSS is a plus.

You should be:
  • Curious about your profession and the world of FinTech, to learn and keep up to date.
  • Keen to deliver business value in addition to producing innovative solutions.
  • Proactive and take ownership of your work, managing your time efficiently along the way.
  • High attention to quality and detail, be it design, testing or code review.
  • A big picture thinker. Be able to take inspiration from non-traditional sources and partners.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment - the one we make in our employees. It's why we're dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit careers.blackrock.com | www.blackrock.com/corporate | Instagram: @blackrock | Twitter: @blackrock | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.

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