Lead Experience Designer

SimCorp; København; On-site; DKK 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work policy

Growth opportunities

Pension benefits

Work-life balance

Inclusive culture

Job summary

SimCorp is seeking a senior Product Designer to lead design for a major product area, balancing hands-on work with leadership. You will shape UX strategy and guide complex features in our global product ecosystem, embedded within product teams across markets.

Join a global hybrid team and advance design maturity, with opportunities to mentor others, drive design system adoption, and collaborate with product managers, engineers, and analysts to transform workflows and improve outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead design for a major product area with hands-on work and leadership.
• Own user experience strategy for a major product area.
• Drive design system adoption within product area.
• Mentor and oversee day-to-day design work across projects.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to validate solutions with users.
• Present design recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Job description

WHAT MAKES US, US

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp! At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values - caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered. If you like what we’re saying, keep reading!

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US

Product Design transforms complex financial workflows into intuitive solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. We bridge sophisticated investment technology with the people who depend on it - portfolio managers, compliance officers, and analysts operating in high-stakes environments where precision and speed matter. Our global Product Design team operates as a centralized center of excellence with distributed impact. We maintain unified standards and processes globally while embedding designers directly within product teams for deep collaboration and contextual expertise. This approach lets us maintain consistency across SimCorp's product ecosystem while scaling expertise efficiently across markets and time zones. We foster an environment where curiosity meets accountability. Every designer is self-directed and results-oriented while actively advancing design maturity across SimCorp. Our success is measured in transformed user workflows, reduced time-to-insight, improved compliance outcomes, and strengthened client relationships.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Lead design for a major product area while balancing hands-on design work with leadership responsibilities.
• Design Leadership
  • Own user experience strategy for a major product area
  • Lead design for complex features and user workflows
  • Establish design quality standards and review processes
  • Drive design system adoption within product area
  • Typically focused on one or a few products or features.
  • Leads one or several other designers on specific projects to oversee day-to-day design work and ensure alignment with product goals.
• Team/Project Leadership
  • Provide design direction and mentorship to designers
  • Facilitate design critiques and collaborative design sessions
  • Support experience designers' professional development
  • Coordinate design work across multiple feature teams
  • Strong tactical and operational influence within specific product team(s) and project(s).
• Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Collaborates closely with product managers to create and iterate on interaction solutions that solve complex workflows
  • Ensure those solutions are tested and validated with end users.
  • Collaborate with Engineering leads on implementation planning
  • Present design recommendations to senior stakeholders

WHAT WE VALUE

SimCorp Product Designers balance craft mastery with strategic thinking. We seek designers who can:

• Navigate between high-level strategy and detailed execution
• Translate complex financial concepts into clear, actionable interfaces
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and drive stakeholder consensus
• Take ownership of projects while contributing to our collective design practice
• Leverage the latest in AI tools to prototype interactive concepts and accelerate to user validation as quickly as possible

BENEFITS

• Global hybrid work policy - We ask you to work 2 days a week from the office. If you choose you can work remotely the other days. Of course you are welcome at the office if that is your preference.
• Growth and innovation - Every 6th sprint is reserved for planning and innovation. So, with regular intervals you have a chance to explore and learn new skills or improve something that you believe will be beneficial to you, your team or the application.
• Self- Direction - High degree of self-organization. Each team and developer have a high degree of freedom to plan, organize and design their work.
• Inclusive and diverse company culture
• Pension and health benefits and bonus
• Work-life balance - We strongly believe that an equilibrium between professional responsibilities makes us all the best version of our self’s, both in private life and as a colleague in the workplace.
• Empowerment - We believe that all voices are valuable and must be heard.
• You will involved in shaping our work processes

SimCorp is a provider of industry-leading integrated investment management solutions for the global buy side. Founded in 1971, with more than 3,000 employees across five continents, SimCorp is a truly global technology leader that empowers more than half of the world’s top 100 financial companies through its integrated platform, services, and partner ecosystem. SimCorp is a subsidiary of Deutsche Börse Group. As of 2024, SimCorp includes Axioma, the leading provider of risk and management and portfolio optimization solutions for the global buy side.