Steer the forefront of user experience innovation, crafting extraordinary designs that resonate with a global audience.

As an Experience Design Executive Director in Banking Payments, you will spearhead a team of talented professionals to conceptualize, structure, and detail our offerings within the broader user journey landscape. Leveraging your expertise in experience design principles, devise and enact innovative policies and processes that elevate the user experience and resonate with our organizational strategy. Your role involves setting quality benchmarks, managing asset delivery, and shaping the direction of product initiatives by your team. A staunch advocate for inclusive design and accessibility, exemplify and encourage collaboration and lead your team in creating unparalleled experiences for our diverse user base. Your expertise in interaction design positions you as an advisor to senior management on complex experience design matters, promoting a culture of collaboration and inclusivity across multidisciplinary teams.

Job responsibilities

• Develop and implement user experience strategies in line with business objectives and apply your expertise in interaction design and information architecture
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of experience designers, fostering collaboration, and promoting professional development through coaching and performance management
• Drive innovation by staying abreast of industry trends, accessibility standards, and emerging technologies to maintain our competitive edge and user-centric approach
• Design methods to incorporate insights gained from key performance metrics, utilizing data fluency to inform decision-making and optimize user experiences for diverse customer segments. Build strong relationships with key stakeholders and influence decisions and champion user-centered design principles organization-wide
• Partner with product, engineering, and business leaders across products to plan roadmaps, gather requirements, and structure work for multiple product lines. Present the team’s work to cross-functional executives
• Drive creation of new product and business strategy at the intersection of user needs and business goals, spearheading the development of experience-led visions (“north stars”) for Consumer Banking Deposits products
• Work the broader organization to make the changes needed to realize product and business strategy
• Coach your direct senior leadership on how to realize success at scale
• In partnership with Principal Designers, lead the creative efforts for your team, across multiple parallel work streams, establishing a vision for where the work is headed, and establishing a shared understanding of quality
• Plan and structure work across multiple design/product teams
• Bring a user-centered design perspective to discussions around product vision, roadmap, and requirements with Product-level leadership

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 7 years of experience or equivalent expertise in user experience design, focusing on interaction design and information architecture
• Advanced skills in visual design, storyboarding, and data fluency, capable of creating visually appealing and functional visual elements for digital products and services
• Proven leadership in guiding and mentoring diverse teams of experience designers, fostering collaboration and promoting professional growth
• Demonstrated success in inclusive design, accessibility guidelines, and assistive technology, to create inclusive experiences for diverse users
• Proven understanding of market trends, product knowledge, and technological advancements, with the ability to leverage emerging technologies and industry best practices to drive user experience outcomes. 
• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant design discipline (e.g., Interaction Design, Human Computer Interface, User Experience Design), certification from credible bootcamp or similar accelerated learning program, or equivalent work experience
• Has evaluated the goals and opportunities of an initiative and then worked to craft a program of work for the UX work stream which has included user research and synthesis, conceptualizing, designing, specification, QA, and deployment.
• Prior work involves leading design teams (with other Designers, UX Researchers, and Content Designers) and cross-functional collaboration with senior Product Managers and Engineering leads
• Expertise in core craft skills such as Interaction Design, Service Design, and Information Architecture; strength in adjacent skills such as User Research, UX Writing, and Prototyping
• Strong facilitation skills and experience employing a variety of methods and techniques to run complex design-led workshops
• Has led new business thinking and strategy through their user-centered design work

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Deep expertise in journey and service mapping, storytelling, product design, problem framing and solving design problems