Senior UX Design Lead - Advisory - Vice President

Senior UX Design Lead - Advisory, Vice President

1 NYP, New York

• Design confidently around Wealth Management concepts, translating domain complexity into clear, usable experiences without oversimplifying.
• Produce efficient, low-friction workflows that optimize speed, accuracy, and confidence.
• Define north-star journeys, service blueprints, and multi-quarter roadmaps aligned to business outcomes and platform constraints.
• Operate as a senior partner to Product, Engineering, Legal/Compliance/Risk, and Operations
• Produce high-quality specs and prototypes
• Produce IA for large-scale tools—navigation models, object/relationship modeling, scalable patterns, and cross-application consistency (especially where data and actions span multiple products).
• Have a solid understanding of how Artificial Intelligence capabilities can be applied both at the application design level as well as the UX asset production level (in Figma)
• Strategize and execute the product vision by being heavily involved in the end-to-end product design process   
• Surface the underlying needs and motivation of our users to ensure we achieve business goals and provide value  
• 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
• Design holistic solutions that integrate seamlessly into our Wealth Management product ecosystem

• Bachelor's degree in design or related field; master’s degree is a plus   

• 10 years of experience as a UX designer and as a key contributor to the success of products that have launched  
• An outstanding portfolio that demonstrates how you have created experiences that solved business and user needs  
• Fluency in Figma and the use of design systems & comfortable with Rapid Prototyping (Figma Make, Claude, Lovable)

• You thrive in a collaborative, explorative environment and value being on a diverse team that you can bounce ideas off, 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.)   

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years.  Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. 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. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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