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UBS seeks a Product Design Director with 10+ years' experience designing user-centered products, ideally in corporate functions. Must-haves: UX design experience, design leadership skills, agile methodologies, and a keen eye for detail.

About the job

Job Reference #
288641BR

Job Type
Full Time

Your role
UBS are looking for a talented Product Design Director to lead the design of highly usable and intuitive digital products for our internal users across the Group Functions. With a deep understanding of user experience and user interface design, you should be comfortable doing fast and iterative user research, sketching and prototyping solutions to validate with customers as well as final design delivery. You will be leading the design of new features on existing platforms as well as making new product concepts tangible for our stakeholders.

You will lead all aspects of the product design process, from workshop facilitation, conducting user research, synthesizing insights to identify design opportunities through to sketching, wireframing and prototyping solutions. You’ll be able to demonstrate prior hands-on, detailed-oriented UX design experience along with design leadership skills.

We’re looking for a Product Design Director in the UX Design Center of Excellence to:

Strategize, sketch and design new products and features across multiple product teams

Plan and facilitate ideation workshops to align the product-vision and fully understand user needs: e.g.; persona-creation, journey mapping, storyboarding and other user-centered design and Design Thinking methods

Translate user requirements and research into tangible design concepts to bring a product concept to life quickly

Feel equally comfortable sketching and wireframing a design solution as you are making UI and data visualizations beautiful and compelling

Be an advocate for our design system and help develop patterns and components for re-use

Work closely with cross-functional agile team members to improve (digital) products and journeys iteratively

Provide leadership and coaching to other designers in the team, as well as being a strong evangelist for the business value of design across Group Functions at UBS

Your team
In our agile operating model, the Design CoE sits within our technology area providing solutions for Human Resources, Communications & Branding, Legal and Group Corporate Systems. You will work alongside product managers and engineers to lead the user-experience design of our products. We are a new, nimble group and excited to get our design journey started. You’ll be working with team members both in location and globally.

Your expertise

10+ years’ experience designing user-centered products and complex applications, ideally in corporate functions (HR, Legal, Marketing, COO)

An awe-inspiring portfolio and a proven design process that will set an example to those around you

Demonstrable strategic thinking and a thorough understanding of the product design process

A good understanding of agile methodologies and integrating design with cross-functional delivery teams

An obsessive attention-to-detail in everything you do, from storytelling and clarity of communication through to detailed wireframes and UI designs

Knowledge and experience using tools such as Figma and/or Sketch

Exceptional organizational skills and a passion for mentoring and leading other designers

About Us
UBS is the world’s largest and the only truly global wealth manager. We operate through four business divisions: Global Wealth Management, Personal & Corporate Banking, Asset Management and the Investment Bank. Our global reach and the breadth of our expertise set us apart from our competitors..

We have a presence in all major financial centers in more than 50 countries.

How We Hire

This role requires an assessment on application. Learn more about how we hire: www.ubs.com/global/en/careers/experienced-professionals.html

Join us
At UBS, we embrace flexible ways of working when the role permits. We offer different working arrangements like part-time, job-sharing and hybrid (office and home) working. Our purpose-led culture and global infrastructure help us connect, collaborate, and work together in agile ways to meet all our business needs.

From gaining new experiences in different roles to acquiring fresh knowledge and skills, we know that great work is never done alone. We know that it's our people, with their unique backgrounds, skills, experience levels and interests, who drive our ongoing success. Together we’re more than ourselves. Ready to be part of #teamUBS and make an impact?

Disclaimer / Policy Statements
UBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce.