Senior Product Designer/UX Architect – CIB – Markets Execution
Senior Product Designer/UX Architect in New York City
JP Morgan’s Corporate Investment Bank (CIB)—Markets Execution Group
We are actively seeking an energetic and innovative Senior Product Designer (UX Architect) to join our
group. Over the past few years, J.P. Morgan Chase has been an active leader in the fin-tech revolution
by instilling strong Product/UX discipline and onboarding expertise in emerging technologies such as
block chain, data science, machine learning, and cyber-security. Our team, which sits within JP Morgan’s
institutional trading division (serving corporate clients), leverages these approaches and technologies to
develop the tools considered most essential to our clients. Our users are specialists and include high
performance roles like trader, analyst, portfolio manager, ibankers and others closely involved in the
origination, analytics, and execution of trading instruments. These users have complex, fast-paced,
informationally overloaded jobs, within an already complex industry. And so the tools we design must
add value while adding minimal complexity. To do our job well, we utilize creative design-led techniques
to help us break through the industry jargon and bureaucracy and find insights that others can’t. As a
firm, we’re elevating ‘Design’ not only to solve complex design problems but also as a catalyst for
product and service innovation.
The successful candidate will join this unique and specialized team that provides product strategy and
delivery capabilities for client-facing applications. Our Product Design team sits within a Product
Management organization and partners with the product owners to ensure that our hand-crafted,
innovative ideas are deployed.
The ideal candidate is, above all, a maker and enjoys balancing craft with an academic interest in
theory and science of Interaction Design, HCI, and user-centered design methodologies. In addition,
candidates should have the following skills and interests:
- Enjoys designing highly functional user interfaces
- Has a deep understanding of interactivity and its impact on human behavior
- Has experience conceptualizing, modeling, and designing complex, yet innovative, experiences
- Understands the value of homing in on contextual details that help ensure we’re solving for the
right problems
- Can defend their designs with rationale rooted in user needs and business goals
- Enjoys the multi-disciplinary and collaborative nature of product development
- Is detail-oriented and appreciates the value of visual aesthetics across everything we do
- Can translate business problems and requirements into compelling UI’s.
Responsibilities
- Guide and influence the Product/Service development process by leveraging your command of
HCI and Design
- Both formally and informally uncover user needs and contexts via primary and secondary
research techniques and leverage your learnings to come up with the big idea
- Create, present, and document proposed solutions from the big ideas to the smallest
components which might include interaction models and flows, screen and component states,
data and information hierarchies
- Escort a proposed solution through to deployment and beyond ensuring that the vision becomes
a reality.
Experience and Qualifications
- Foundation education in graphic, industrial, interaction design or related degree.
- Three to five years of experience working as a user experience professional. An advanced degrees
and professional practice experience may serve as substitute for qualification.
- Demonstrable experience designing rich interactions for desktop, web, hand-held form factors
- Experience designing applications within complex business domains similar to financial services
- Track record of successful deliveries and a strong portfolio that highlights their ideas and end-
product.
A portfolio with samples of work must be reviewed before an interview will be scheduled.
About JPMorgan Chase & Co.
J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets and investor
services. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their
business in more than 100 countries. With $21.2 trillion of assets under custody and $419.6 billion in
deposits, the Corporate & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and
extends liquidity in markets around the world.
Across our business, our goal is to help clients succeed, contribute to orderly and well-functioning
markets and support global economic growth. J.P. Morgan has had a special relationship with our
clients for more than 200 years.
Interested candidates should send their latest resume, statement of interest, and a visual design portfolio (or
link) to our corporate recruiter: corey.feeley@jpmorgan.com
