Principal Product Designer

As a Principal Product Designer at LSEG, you will lead a team within the LSEG Workspace platform, focusing on user-centred design to create valuable and accessible experiences in complex financial systems. This hybrid role involves defining structural designs, conducting user research, and collaborating with product, engineering, and business teams. You will champion user needs, ensure consistency with design systems, and contribute to the growth of the design organization, making a significant impact on LSEG's flagship products.

Must Have

• Lead a team of designers for LSEG Workspace.
• Apply user-centred design to solve complex business problems.
• Conduct user research and define structural design.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Business teams.
• Represent the voice of the user in product decisions.
• Ensure deliverables align with the design system.
• Collaborate with Engineers during solution build.
• Communicate design rationale and progress.
• Significant hands-on UX Design experience in complex products.
• Expertise in user research and design methodologies.
• Portfolio demonstrating expert product design experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Product Design or HCI.

Good to Have

• Experience in financial services is highly preferred.

Perks & Benefits

• Healthcare
• Retirement planning
• Paid volunteering days
• Wellbeing initiatives

Role Description:

Are you passionate about design and how it builds value for both customers and businesses? Do you understand sophisticated environments, such as professional financial industries?

Come and join us in a dynamic, stimulating industry that has global reach and impact.

Our user-centred approach keeps us passionate about delivering to our customers what they need. We are focused on designing the most beautiful, accessible, and valuable experiences in complex financial systems.

You will create new and innovative design solutions that address the very particular needs of our users. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team working across all stages of the product lifecycle.

Our best designers champion user-needs in their work, bringing project partners and team members with them to deliver intuitive and innovative experiences.

What you can expect:

As a Principal Product Designer for our flagship platform LSEG Workspace, you will be leading a team of designers to deliver maximum customer value. This is a hybrid, player-coach role. You are an expert in user-centred design methodologies, ensuring we create solutions across multiple, related product areas which provide a coherent, seamless experience for our users. You will be working closely with Design Leadership to improve our Design organisation. And you’ll be partnering with senior members across Business, Product and Development to establish long-term relationships which help us deliver on our shared outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Following a user-centred design process to solve complex business problems that deliver maximum customer value
• Conducting user research and defining the structural design of complex applications
• Collaborating with Product, Engineering and Business teams across LSEG to inform and bring to life the product strategy
• Representing the voice of the user in product decisions and being comfortable challenging the status quo
• Collaborating with other members of the Product Design team, including User Researchers, Service Designers, Content Designers and UI Designers
• Ensuring deliverables are consistent with our design system and evolving it where possible
• Collaborating closely with Engineers during the build of our solutions
• Communicating design rationale and progress to peers and leadership
• Involved in recruitment, improving team competencies and working with individuals to grow their career

Candidate Profile / Key Skills:

• Significant hands-on experience in a UX Design role in complex products/domains, highly preferred in financial services
• Expertise in user research and design methodologies to map the current experience and propose the future experience
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Are highly creative, detail-oriented, passionate about delivering the best user experience possible.
• Track record of driving the user experience across highly complex enterprise problems with measurable success
• Excellent communication skills
• Portfolio demonstrating an expert level understanding and applied experience of product design in complex domain
• Bachelor's Degree in Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, a related field or equivalent practical experience

We are an established multi-disciplinary full-spectrum Product Design team who have had a major impact on LSEG products over the past several years. We are embarking on a new phase of growth, focusing on new major initiatives which will strengthen LSEG’s status as the leading data aggregator and provider of high-quality information in the financial & risk professional world. If you share our values of collaboration, commitment to helping our users and each other, and a willingness to take the initiative and learn from mistakes, then we’d be very happy to hear from you.

Intrigued by some of the most challenging experience design opportunities? Come join us.