Senior UX/ Experience Designer

Prudential Financial; Fort Washington (Montgomery County); On-site; USD 89,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) match

Pension plan

Wellness programs

Education benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Prudential Financial seeks a senior Product Designer to translate customer insights into practical design solutions across digital touchpoints. You will drive end-to-end product thinking, IA, and prototyping while collaborating with marketing, product, and technology teams to shape the customer journey.

In a fast-paced environment, you’ll apply lean and agile practices, ensure accessibility, and communicate design rationale to leadership. A strong portfolio is required.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Product Design or UX with end-to-end product thinking and measurable impact.
• Experience in financial services, insurance, or related consumer products is preferred.
• Strong methods: research, testing, IA, journey mapping, flows, wireframes, prototyping, visual design, and workshops.
• Ability to work with multiple business units and cross-functional teams to translate problems into design opportunities.
• Experience in lean and/or agile environments and with front-end integration knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Translate user needs and business priorities into practical design recommendations.
• Create information architecture, flows, prototypes, and touchpoints to drive measurable outcomes.
• Identify patterns across journeys to propose new product opportunities and roadmaps.
• Co-create design solutions with developers, marketing, product, and SMEs.
• Present clear, evidence-based design decisions grounded in customer insights and accessibility.

Skills

Product design

UX design

Information architecture

User research

Prototyping

Workshop facilitation

Cross-functional collaboration

Lean/Agile

Accessible design

Storytelling & presentation

Tools

Figma

UserZoom

UserTesting.com

Miro

Jira

PowerPoint

Job description

Technology - Agile, Delivery, & Product

Main Responsibilities

• Translate customer needs, behavioral insights, business priorities, and operational constraints into practical design recommendations.
• Create intuitive information architecture, experience flows, prototypes, and digital touchpoints that support measurable customer and business outcomes.
• Identify patterns across customer journeys, service experiences, and stakeholder needs to recommend new product opportunities, experience improvements, and roadmap priorities.
• Apply human-centered design practices to define problems, generate concepts, test assumptions, and refine solutions that improve the Prudential Peak experience across key moments in the customer journey.
• Create and rapidly iterate wireframes, concepts, and interactive prototypes in accordance with user stories and journeys.
• Co-create practical, feasible design solutions with developers, marketing partners, product stakeholders, and business subject matter experts.
• Build clear, evidence-based recommendations for design improvements, articulating the customer need, business rationale, expected impact, and implementation considerations.
• Communicate design decisions with clear rationale grounded in customer insight, usability principles, accessibility standards, business objectives, and industry best practices.
• Plan and facilitate collaborative working sessions that help cross-functional teams align on challenges, priorities, concepts, and decisions.
• Analyze existing experiences to identify friction points, root causes, accessibility gaps, unmet customer needs, and opportunities for measurable improvement.

Skills And Experience

• 6+ years in Product Design, UX or equivalent design role, with a portfolio that demonstrates end-to-end digital product thinking, interaction design, user-centered problem solving, and measurable impact
• Agency and or corporate environment experience, preferably with work on a consumer product in the financial services, insurance, or similar sector
• Solid experience across core UX/product design methods, including research and user testing, information architecture and site mapping, journey and experience mapping, user flows, wireframing, prototyping, visual interface design, and workshop facilitation
• Experience working across multiple business units and cross-functional teams to frame complex business challenges as clear customer and experience problems, and identify practical paths forward
• Experience working both collaboratively and autonomously in a fast-paced cross-functional environment, including the ability to proactively identify needs, define next steps, and drive work forward with limited direction
• Strong understanding of information architecture, taxonomy, content strategy, plain language, and accessibility
• Experience working in lean and/or agile environments
• Basic front-end development integration and enablement knowledge
• Ability to translate design outputs, research insights, and recommended outcomes into compelling written narratives, presentations, and decision-making materials for stakeholders and leadership audiences of various backgrounds.

For This Role, The Following Competencies Are Essential

• Collaboration and partnership—Build trusted relationships across marketing, product, technology, operations, compliance, and business teams; invite diverse perspectives; and help stakeholders move toward shared decisions.
• Continuous improvement—Bring progressive ideas, curiosity, and practical recommendations that improve customer experiences, team processes, and business outcomes.
• Growth Mindset—Actively seeking and embracing constructive feedback, integrating diverse perspectives to strengthen the work, and provide thoughtful, respectful feedback on the work of existing designs.
• Effective and decisive decision-making—Use insight, evidence, and sound judgment to guide tradeoffs, make recommendations, and keep work aligned to the intended customer and business outcomes.
• Leadership and communication—Communicate clearly and help teams understand the customer problem, design rationale, and recommended path forward.
• Challenge existing thinking appropriately—Listen, observe, ask timely questions, and use logic, customer insight, and reasoning to help teams evaluate options and choose the best solution for Prudential and its customers.
• Empathy and curiosity—Explore customer needs, behaviors, motivations, and pain points with openness and rigor, using what is learned to shape more useful, accessible, and relevant experiences.

Tools

• Figma, including component libraries, design systems, prototyping, collaboration, and developer handoff
• UserZoom, UserTesting.com, or comparable research and usability testing platforms
• Miro
• Jira or comparable agile delivery tools used to document requirements, track design work, and collaborate with product and technology partners
• Powerpoint

What We Offer You

Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $89,000.00 to $147,000.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company-funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period).

Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. To find out more about our Total Rewards package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.

Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

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