What are the responsibilities and job description for the VP, Product Design position at Eleven Recruiting?
About Eleven Recruiting
We are a specialized technology staffing agency supporting professional and financial services companies. Why do we stand out in technology staffing? We listen and act as advisors for our candidates on how they can best add value, find interesting projects, and pave a path for career advancement. We advocate for best pay, diversity in tech, and best job-fit for every candidate we place.
Our client, an investment firm, is seeking a VP of Product Design to join their team in Los Angeles, CA!
Responsibilities:
- Build and lead the Product Design function covering UX, UI, research, and design systems.
- Partner with Product Engineering, Product Management, and business stakeholders to define the end-to-end experience across firm’s digital ecosystem.
- Introduce and institutionalize the design thinking framework as the foundation for product discovery and delivery.
- Establish firm’s design system and visual identity, ensuring coherence across products, especially investment lifecycle tools.
- Serve as a thought partner to senior leadership—helping connect user experience, business strategy, and data intelligence.
- Champion deep user research and contextual inquiry to uncover investor, client, and operational needs.
- Translate insights into clear user journeys, problem statements, and measurable experience goals.
- Facilitate creative exploration sessions that bring together product, data, and engineering to co-create solutions.
- Oversee rapid prototyping to visualize and test concepts before build—balancing fidelity with speed.
- Implement structured usability testing and continuous feedback loops to refine the experience post-launch.
- Build rituals and toolkits that embed these phases into product development cadences (e.g., design sprints, hypothesis-driven roadmaps, and UX metrics).
- Operationalize design delivery through scalable processes—user research, prototyping, and design reviews.
- Partner with engineers to ensure design fidelity and high-quality implementation.
- Oversee design system implementation using tools like Figma, Storybook, and Tailwind, aligned with firm’s engineering standards.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Product Design, Computer Science, or a related field required. Master’s degree is a plus.
- Equivalent experience in design leadership within enterprise or financial technology environments will be considered.
- 10 years of experience in product design, UX, or human-centered design, including senior leadership.
- Demonstrated success building and scaling design practices in an enterprise or financial technology context.
- Expertise in applying design thinking methodologies to complex, data-rich workflows.
- Deep understanding of enterprise UX, data visualization, and design systems.
- Proven collaboration with engineering and product management in agile environments.
- Exceptional communication and storytelling ability.
Salary: $200,000 - $225,000
Salary : $200,000 - $225,000