Experience Design, Executive Director - Home Lending

Testing Site - JPMC; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Testing Site - JPMC is seeking an Experience Design Executive Director to lead a team shaping user journeys across Chase Home Lending. You will set design strategies, mentor designers, and partner with data science, engineering, and risk teams to deliver AI-infused experiences at scale.

The role requires 7+ years in UX design, strong leadership, and a deep commitment to accessibility and privacy-by-design principles, ensuring trustworthy customer journeys in a regulated lending context.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in user experience design with a focus on interaction design and information architecture.
• Advanced skills in visual design, storytelling, and data fluency for digital products and services.
• Proven leadership of diverse experience design teams with coaching and performance management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement user experience strategies aligned to business objectives.
• Lead and mentor a team of experience designers; foster collaboration and professional growth.
• Stay updated on industry trends, accessibility standards, and emerging technologies to maintain a user-centric approach.
• Build relationships with stakeholders; influence decisions and champion user-centered design principles across the organization.
• Translate ML model signals into customer-friendly UX decisions and establish acceptance thresholds.
• Operationalize Responsible AI in design with consent, disclosures, explainability UI, and bias detection touchpoints.
• Establish experimentation and learning loops for AI experiences (A/B tests, offline evaluations) and monitor drift and reliability.
• Lead conversation and content design for Home Lending AI assistants with brand voice and regulatory compliance.

Skills

UX design

Leadership

Inclusive design

Accessibility guidelines

Privacy by design

ML collaboration

Job description

As an Experience Design Executive Director in Chase Home Lending, you will spearhead a team of talented professionals to conceptualize, structure, and detail our offerings within the broader user journey landscape. Leveraging your expertise in experience design principles, devise and enact innovative policies and processes that elevate the user experience and resonate with our organizational strategy. Your role involves setting quality benchmarks, managing asset delivery, and shaping the direction of product initiatives by your team. A staunch advocate for inclusive design and accessibility, exemplify and encourage collaboration and lead your team in creating unparalleled experiences for our diverse user base. Your expertise in interaction design positions you as an advisor to senior management on complex experience design matters, promoting a culture of collaboration and inclusivity across multidisciplinary teams.

This role will oversee AI-infused customer experiences across Home Lending, including pre-qualification guidance, document intelligence, and proactive servicing. It will partner closely with data science, engineering, and risk/control teams to translate model capabilities into trustworthy user experiences. The team will design consent, transparency, and escalation pathways tailored to AI features in a regulated lending context. The scope includes conversation design for AI assistants, uncertainty communication, and human-in-the-loop review workflows. Success will be measured by customer outcomes, fairness, and reliability of AI-enabled journeys.

Job responsibilities

• Develop and implement user experience strategies in line with business objectives and apply your expertise in interaction design and information architecture
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of experience designers, fostering collaboration, and promoting professional development through coaching and performance management
• Drive innovation by staying abreast of industry trends, accessibility standards, and emerging technologies to maintain our competitive edge and user-centric approach
• Design methods to incorporate insights gained from key performance metrics, utilizing data fluency to inform decision-making and optimize user experiences for diverse customer segments.Build strong relationships with key stakeholders and influence decisions and champion user-centered design principles organization-wide
• Translate model performance signals (e.g., precision, recall, calibration, confidence scores) into customer-friendly UX decisions and acceptance thresholds.
• Operationalize Responsible AI in design: consent and disclosures, explainability UI, error handling, bias detection touch points, and post-decision review mechanisms.
• Establish experimentation and learning loops for AI experiences (A/B tests, offline evaluations) and instrument telemetry to monitor drift and reliability.
• Lead conversation and content design for Home Lending AI assistants, ensuring brand voice, accessibility, regulatory compliance, and seamless agent escalation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 7+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in user experience design, focusing on interaction design and information architecture
• Advanced skills in visual design, storyboarding, and data fluency, capable of creating visually appealing and functional visual elements for digital products and services
• Proven leadership in guiding and mentoring diverse teams of experience designers, fostering collaboration and promoting professional growth
• Demonstrated success in inclusive design, accessibility guidelines, and assistive technology, to create inclusive experiences for diverse users
• Proven understanding of market trends, product knowledge, and technological advancements,with the ability to leverage emerging technologies and industry best practices to drive user experience outcomes.
• Demonstrated privacy-by-design practices for AI features, including consent flows, data minimization, and transparent disclosures for use of customer data.
• Proven collaboration with ML engineering/MLOps and risk/control partners to ship AI features responsibly at scale.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with generative AI assistants and retrieval-augmented experiences in financial services.
• Familiarity with ML platforms and tooling (e.g., feature stores, model monitoring, experimentation frameworks) from a product/UX perspective.
• Experience designing AI-powered document intelligence and classification workflows (e.g., mortgage document ingestion and verification).
• Exposure to accessibility considerations unique to AI experiences, including voice interaction and assistive technology compatibility for generated content.
• Track record of launching AI features with measurable outcomes; ability to assess impact using experimentation and causal methods.
• Knowledge of ethical AI standards and emerging regulations affecting consumer AI in financial services.
• Comfort facilitating design critiques and risk reviews focused on AI features, including fairness, robustness, and customer safety.