Senior UX Designer & Strategy Lead (Finance & Operations)

The Blackstone Group L.P.; Bethpage (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Discretionary bonuses

Equity eligibility

Job summary

Blackstone seeks an Assistant Vice President, UX Designer to lead user experience design across its Finance & Operations technology portfolio. The role shapes end-to-end experiences for applications supporting fund operations, investor servicing, reporting, and onboarding.

You will translate complex financial concepts into intuitive interfaces, collaborating with product managers, engineers, and designers to drive thoughtful, user-centered solutions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in UX, Product Design, Interaction Design, or related disciplines.
• Bachelor's degree in Design or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design work, including research, problem definition, workflow design, and user interface design.
• Experience designing complex web-based applications and workflow-driven enterprise products.
• Experience working with, contributing to, and scaling enterprise design systems, including reusable components, patterns, and accessibility standards.
• Proficiency with modern design and AI-enabled prototyping tools such as Figma.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design methodologies and design thinking principles.
• Experience designing decisions effectively to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience collaborating within Agile product development environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead UX design initiatives across multiple Finance & Operations applications and product workstreams.
• Partner with Product Managers and Engineering teams to define product vision, user workflows, and experience strategies.
• Conduct user research, stakeholder interviews, workflow analysis, and usability testing to identify user needs and opportunities for improvement.
• Create user journeys, task flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that enable intuitive and efficient experiences.
• Translate complex financial and operational processes into simple, scalable, and elegant user interfaces.
• Identify opportunities to improve consistency and usability through adoption of design systems and shared UX patterns.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle to ensure high-quality implementation of designs.
• Leverage user feedback, analytics, and business insights to inform design decisions and prioritization.
• Present design concepts and recommendations to stakeholders across technology and business organizations.
• Champion user-centered design principles and advocate for best practices across the product development process.
• Contribute to the continuous evolution of the Investor Portal design system and overall user experience framework.

Skills

UX design

Product design

User research

Design systems

Figma

Prototyping

Stakeholder mgmt

Accessibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blackstone seeks an Assistant Vice President, UX Designer to lead user experience design across its Finance & Operations technology portfolio. The role shapes end-to-end experiences for applications supporting fund operations, investor servicing, reporting, and onboarding.

You will translate complex financial concepts into intuitive interfaces, collaborating with product managers, engineers, and designers to drive thoughtful, user-centered solutions.