UX Interaction Designer, Vice President at BlackRock

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

BlackRock Logo
Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Financial Services, FinTechIndustries

Requirements

  • 5-8 years’ experience as an expert UX Designer, Interaction Designer, and mid-level mentor
  • Strong Portfolio with examples of high-fidelity comps, workflows, wired prototype boards, and user flows / user journey mapping artifacts (only candidates with strong portfolios will be considered; include access if password protected)
  • Proficiency in Figma and familiarity with Figma Make prompt-to-design
  • Familiar with AI Prompts, AI Agents, Agentic workflows, GenAI, ChatGPT, etc
  • Extensive experience working with established design systems and design libraries, following established interaction design patterns
  • Knowledge of UX principles such as Fitts’s Law, Miller’s Law, Hick’s Law
  • Experience with data and/or analytic pipelines, in or out of FinTech
  • Affinity for data visualization or willingness to learn
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including delivering presentations and communicating across organization levels
  • Ability to influence decision-making at all levels and across contexts
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and finding signal from noise
  • Hunger for UX, emerging technologies, AI, LLMs, smart UI, complex UI
  • Curiosity as a technologist at heart
  • Availability until 12 noon EDT to collaborate with US-based teams (NYC time zone)

Responsibilities

  • Interview users / stakeholders and extract information through inquisitive, thoughtful, and tactical questioning
  • Author user flows, user journeys, and journey maps
  • Prototype using a pre-defined UI pattern library using Figma
  • Design high fidelity comps and prototypes primarily using Figma
  • Collaborate with the Aladdin Design Team to apply UX governance across projects and evolve BlackRock design patterns where gaps arise
  • Assist on UX Research: develop action tracking framework to monitor user actions, behaviors, patterns; ideate new experiences to automate cyclical, high-value user actions through predictive behavioral analysis and UX-related automations
  • Guide technologists on user scenarios to track and introduce ideas/methods to decrease time to task completion, optimize processes and workflows
  • Innovate, conceptualize, design, and pilot new capabilities to simplify clients’ business problems
  • Work closely with stakeholders, end users, full stack developers, systems engineers, front-end developers, data scientists, financial modelers, program managers, platform operators, and client teams to design, prototype, define product strategy and roadmap
  • Work within a multi-disciplinary team to drive the firm's platform transformation strategy
  • Drive the product from strategic vision to roadmaps to design execution
  • Drive alignment and transparency of vision, engaging with internal partners and end-users
  • Partner with program managers and engineering leads to drive execution sprint-by-sprint across the product lifecycle
  • Champion internal initiatives and drive new ways of working across the team
  • Collaborate with local India teams and US-based teams

Skills

Figma
UX Research
User Flows
User Journeys
Prototyping
Design Systems
Interaction Design
AI Prompts
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
Journey Maps
High Fidelity Design

BlackRock

About BlackRock

New York City, New YorkHeadquarters
1988Year Founded
$78,647.7MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Fintech, Financial ServicesIndustries

Benefits

Health Insurance
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Mental Health Support
Wellness Program
401(k) Retirement Plan

Risks

FDIC scrutiny could lead to regulatory challenges for BlackRock.
Workforce reduction may indicate internal financial pressures or strategic shifts.
Involvement in Yangzijiang Shipbuilding exposes BlackRock to geopolitical risks.

Differentiation

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, reached over $50 billion in assets quickly.
The firm is developing a layer-2 tokenized real-world asset platform on Ethereum.
BlackRock's partnership with Frax Finance enhances its stablecoin market presence.

Upsides

IBIT's success attracts a broader range of cryptocurrency investors.
The Ethereum platform positions BlackRock as a leader in blockchain financial services.
Partnership with Frax Finance enhances digital finance offerings and compliance.

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