Senior UX/ Experience Designer

Prudential Annuities Distributors (PAD); United States; On-site; USD 89,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Annual bonus potential

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with match

Pension plan

Wellness program

Education benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Total rewards package

Job summary

Prudential Peak, the well-being and longevity portal, seeks a Senior Experience Designer to lead UX/product design, translating customer needs into engaging digital experiences for policyholders and their loved ones. This role sits inside the Long-Term Care team and collaborates with marketing, product, technology, operations, data, and compliance.

You will shape end-to-end experiences, establish information architecture, and scale the design across Prudential products while navigating ambiguity

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Product Design, UX or equivalent design role with end-to-end digital product thinking.
• Agency or corporate experience in financial services, insurance, or similar sector preferred.
• Solid experience in research, user testing, IA/site mapping, journey mapping, user flows, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, and workshop facilitation.
• Experience framing complex business challenges as customer problems across multiple business units.
• Ability to drive work forward autonomously in a fast-paced cross-functional environment.
• Strong understanding of IA, taxonomy, content strategy, plain language, and accessibility.
• Experience in lean and/or agile environments.
• Basic front-end development integration knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer needs, insights, and business priorities into practical design recommendations.
• Create intuitive IA, experience flows, prototypes, and digital touchpoints for measurable outcomes.
• Identify patterns across journeys to inform new product opportunities and roadmaps.
• Apply human-centered design to define problems, test concepts, and refine solutions.
• Produce wireframes, concepts, and interactive prototypes aligned with user stories.
• Co-create feasible design solutions with developers, marketing, product, and SMEs.
• Communicate design decisions with clear rationale tied to customer insights and business goals.
• Lead collaborative sessions to align cross-functional teams on priorities and decisions.
• Analyze experiences to identify friction, accessibility gaps, and opportunities for improvement.

Skills

UX design

Product design

Information architecture

User research

Agile methodologies

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma

UserZoom

Miro

Jira

PowerPoint

Job description

Job Classification: Technology - Agile, Delivery, & Product

The Prudential Long Term Care team is seeking an enthusiastic, creative, and experienced Senior Experience Designer to help shape, enhance, and scale PrudentialPeak®, our well-being and longevity portal. This role is embedded within the business team and will serve as a UX/product design lead and strategic thought partner, helping translate customer needs, business priorities, and cross-functional input into clear, accessible, and engaging digital experiences for policyholders and their loved ones. As a Senior Experience Designer, you will work closely with marketing, product, technology, operations, data, and compliance to deliver personalized experiences, enhanced capabilities, and deeper customer engagement for policyholders and their loved ones. You will play a key role in the continued evolution of PrudentialPeak®, helping the team connect customer insights, business goals, and design decisions across the end-to-end experience. In this role, you will bring a strong understanding of experience architecture, product strategy, and human-centered design to help advance the end-to-end experience for policyholders, support future growth of the site across other Prudential products, and explore opportunities to scale the experience to additional customer audiences. You will be expected to navigate ambiguity, frame design opportunities, influence cross-functional decisions, and move work forward in a fast-paced environment.

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.

Competencies

• 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.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status, medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), a global financial services leader and premier active global investment manager with approximately $1.4 trillion in assets under management as of Dec. 31, 2023, has operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Prudential’s diverse and talented employees help make lives better and create financial opportunity for more people by expanding access to investing, insurance, and retirement security. Prudential’s iconic Rock symbol has stood for strength, stability, expertise and innovation for 150 years. For more information please visit news.prudential.com.

Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace Prudential Financial, Inc. serves its customers in more than 40 countries and territories, and we seek talented, creative individuals from a variety of backgrounds, worldviews, and life circumstances to work with us. We are focused on creating a fully inclusive culture, where all employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work. We don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it, support it, and thrive on it. At Prudential, employees have a unique opportunity to build their career path by owning their development, their career, and their future. We encourage employees to hone their skills and explore continued opportunities within Prudential. PGIM, the global asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), is a global investment manager with US $1.3 trillion in assets under management as of Dec. 31, 2023. With offices in 18 countries, PGIM’s businesses offer a range of investment solutions for retail and institutional investors around the world across a broad range of asset classes, including public fixed income, private fixed income, fundamental equity, quantitative equity, real estate, and alternatives. For more information about PGIM, visit pgim.com. Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI) of the United States is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom, or with Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom. For more information please visit news.prudential.com. PGIM Inc. (PGIM) is the principal asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI), a company incorporated and with its principal place of business in the United States. PFI of the United States is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom or with Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom. Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace Prudential Financial, Inc. serves its customers in more than 40 countries and territories, and we seek talented, creative individuals from a variety of backgrounds, worldviews, and life circumstances to work with us. We are focused on creating a fully inclusive culture, where all employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work. We don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it, support it, and thrive on it. At Prudential, employees have a unique opportunity to build their career path by owning their development, their career, and their future. We encourage employees to hone their skills and explore continued opportunities within Prudential.