Senior UX Design Lead - Advisory - Vice President

Morgan Stanley; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley's Wealth Management Platforms is seeking a Senior UX Design Lead - Advisory, Vice President in New York to drive end-to-end design across the Advisor experience. You will partner with product management, engineering, and compliance to translate complex financial workflows into intuitive, scalable interfaces.

You should have a strong portfolio, 10+ years of UX design leadership, and fluency in Figma and design systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in design or related field.
• 10+ years of UX design experience; proven launches.
• Outstanding portfolio demonstrating problem solving through design.
• Fluency in Figma and use of design systems; rapid prototyping experience.

Responsibilities

• Design confidently around Wealth Management concepts, translating complex domain problems into clear, usable experiences.
• Produce efficient, low-friction workflows that optimize speed, accuracy, and confidence.
• Define north-star journeys, service blueprints, and multi-quarter roadmaps aligned to business outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal/Compliance/Risk, and Operations as a senior contributor.
• Produce high-quality specs and prototypes; create scalable IA for large-scale tools.
• Incorporate AI capabilities into design practices and product experiences.

Skills

UX design leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Product thinking

Portfolio showcase

Education

Bachelor's degree in design

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Figma

Design systems

Rapid prototyping

Job description

Senior UX Design Lead - Advisory, Vice President

1 NYP, New York

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Wealth Management (WM) Platforms manages industry-leading platforms, across all WM channels and client segments, to provide a unified digital experience, unlock growth, and deliver efficiencies for Advisors, Clients, and Institutions. WM Platforms consists of ten sub-teams including: Field Experience & Platforms, Digital Client Experience & Platforms, Workplace Platforms, Automation & Workflow, Digital Trading & Investing, Generative AI UX Design & Research, Strategy & Execution, WM Platforms Risk and the Chief Operating Office.

The User Experience Design & Research team bridges platforms within WM – collaborating with tech, compliance, marketing, and research to support development & delivery of experiences that solve problems for real people. The team applies design thinking & lean processes to enable the Firm to achieve competitive advantage and increased performance while reducing risk & lifecycle development

The Advisory Platform team designs tools and workflows that support the Firms ‘Path-to-Advice’ strategy helping Advisors structure and implement investment opportunities across all client segments - from individual retail clients to ultra-high net worth as well as the institutions and government entities that sit between traditional segments.

We are embarking on a multi-year growth plan to deepen existing client engagement across all channels. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, business analysts, and development, to understand user needs and create seamless and intuitive experiences for our Financial Advisors.

To be successful in this role, you should have experience in simplifying enterprise complexity, and setting direction for undefined, complex features and new projects.

Once Here You Will...

• Design confidently around Wealth Management concepts, translating domain complexity into clear, usable experiences without oversimplifying.


• Produce efficient, low-friction workflows that optimize speed, accuracy, and confidence.


• Define north-star journeys, service blueprints, and multi-quarter roadmaps aligned to business outcomes and platform constraints.


• Operate as a senior partner to Product, Engineering, Legal/Compliance/Risk, and Operations


• Produce high-quality specs and prototypes


• Produce IA for large-scale tools—navigation models, object/relationship modeling, scalable patterns, and cross-application consistency (especially where data and actions span multiple products).


• Have a solid understanding of how Artificial Intelligence capabilities can be applied both at the application design level as well as the UX asset production level (in Figma)


• Strategize and execute the product vision by being heavily involved in the end-to-end product design process


• Surface the underlying needs and motivation of our users to ensure we achieve business goals and provide value


• Work closely with our research team to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data and make value-driven design decisions which then translate into clear, simple UIs


• Design holistic solutions that integrate seamlessly into our Wealth Management product ecosystem

Relevant Experience And Mindset

• Bachelor's degree in design or related field; master's degree is a plus


• 10 years of experience as a UX designer and as a key contributor to the success of products that have launched


• An outstanding portfolio that demonstrates how you have created experiences that solved business and user needs


• Fluency in Figma and the use of design systems & comfortable with Rapid Prototyping (Figma Make, Claude, Lovable)


• You thrive in a collaborative, explorative environment and value being on a diverse team that you can bounce ideas off, get critical feedback from, and unite to mature design thinking in a large organization


• You practice active listening and contribute to group situations (brainstorms, audits, critiques, whiteboard sessions, etc.)

What You Can Expect From Morgan Stanley

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that's differentiated – and we've done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren't just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you'll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There's also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $110,000 and $190,000 per year at

the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.