Senior UX Product Designer

Randstad USA; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard seeks a senior UX designer to craft mobile-first, enterprise-grade experiences for field professionals. You will apply UX strategy, user research, and rapid prototyping to deliver high-fidelity interfaces within the Access design system.

Collaborate with product, engineering, and design leads to shape AI-forward workflows, copilots, and generative AI-enabled tooling that accelerate user tasks while maintaining visual polish and usability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of UX/product design industry experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in UX Design, HCI, Graphic Design, or related field (or equivalent).
• Mastery of Figma and FigJam; strong prototyping skills.
• Deep expertise across interaction design, visual design, responsive layouts, information architecture, and design thinking.
• Experience integrating generative AI tooling into design workflows.

Responsibilities

• Execute intuitive, engaging experiences through advanced interaction design, visual craftsmanship, and rapid prototyping.
• Translate sales workflows, business objectives, and user insights into scalable design solutions with AI assistive features.
• Design and maintain high-fidelity UI leveraging Vanguard’s Access design system.
• Produce polished design artifacts ready for development handoff.
• Support design thinking workshops, ideation sessions, and journey mapping initiatives.
• Collaborate with IT product teams across Agile delivery cycles to validate UI against specs.

Skills

UX strategy

User research

Rapid prototyping

Figma

FigJam

Interaction design

Visual design

AI tooling

Agile/Lean

Quantitative research

Education

Bachelor’s degree in UX Design / HCI / Graphic Design

Mastery of UX prototyping tools

Tools

Figma

FigJam

Job description

UX Design and Strategy for Sales Technology. Design modern, mission-critical platforms used daily by sales professionals, translating deep user insight into elegant, intuitive solutions.

Join a collaborative, high-impact user experience team focused on equipping internal sales teams with smart, integrated, and mobile-first digital tools. In this role, you will apply UX strategy, user research, and rapid prototyping to craft high-fidelity enterprise applications for professionals who are frequently on the road or in the field. A key focus involves shaping AI-forward experiences—leveraging ecosystems of AI agents to assist, augment, and accelerate user workflows while integrating generative AI directly into your day-to-day design workflow.

This role sits at the intersection of sales strategy, product innovation, and human-centered craftsmanship, partnering closely with design leads, strategists, and cross-functional teams to bring product vision to life.

A Typical Day in the Life

• Designing for Mobility: Creating responsive, high-fidelity mobile and tablet experiences tailored for field sales teams navigating fast-paced, on-the-go environments.
• Hands-on Execution: Building wireframes, interaction flows, specs, and polished production-ready UI in Figma (utilizing FigJam and the internal Access design system).
• Strategic Collaboration: Partnering with UX Leads and Design Strategists to translate strategic direction into concrete design decisions, occasionally contributing to user journey maps and service blueprints.
• Peer Partnership: Teaming up with fellow UX designers, product owners, and engineers to review components, align on patterns, and maintain high standards of visual polish and usability.
• AI Integration: Exploring and applying generative AI tools to accelerate prototyping, test concepts, and design contextual AI assistance into sales tools.

Team & Culture

• Environment: Highly collaborative, cross-functional, and paced to deliver meaningful business value within Vanguard’s B2B Financial Advisor Services division.
• Focus: Deep alignment with sales enablement, CRM, and internal workflows, bridging user empathy with enterprise scale.
• Reporting Structure: Sits within the FAS Digital & Analytics UX organization, working closely with product management, engineering, and sales partners across FAS.

Core Responsibilities

• Execute intuitive, engaging experiences through advanced interaction design, visual craftsmanship, and rapid prototyping.
• Translate sales workflows, business objectives, and user insights into scalable design solutions that balance human judgment with automated/AI assistance.
• Design and maintain high-fidelity UI leveraging Vanguard’s enterprise design system (Access).
• Produce polished design artifacts (user journeys, flows, wireframes, prototypes, redlines) ready for development handoff.
• Support planning, facilitation, and synthesis for design thinking workshops, ideation sessions, and journey mapping initiatives.
• Partner closely with IT product teams across Agile delivery cycles, validating coded UI to ensure adherence to design specs and interaction standards.
• Champion design decisions with clear visual, written, and verbal storytelling across senior management, project teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Participate in special design initiatives and contribute to shared system patterns as needed.

Top Required Skills

• Craftsmanship & Attention to Detail: Exceptional visual design sensibility, precision formatting, component accuracy, and clean written documentation.
• Enterprise Portfolio: Demonstrated experience designing complex B2B platforms, large enterprise-wide systems, or internal tools (specifically mobile/tablet-optimized workflows).
• AI Fluency: Experience designing AI-driven product experiences (e.g., copilots, assistive workflows, predictive interfaces) as well as leveraging generative AI tools within your personal design process.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of UX/product design industry experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in UX Design, HCI, Graphic Design, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Mastery of core design and prototyping tools (Figma, FigJam).
• Deep expertise across core UX disciplines: interaction design, visual design, responsive layouts (mobile/tablet/desktop), information architecture, and design thinking.
• Experience integrating generative AI tooling into design workflows and concept development.
• Strong product thinking: ability to balance user needs, business metrics, and engineering feasibility in Agile/Lean environments.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct or incorporate qualitative and quantitative research into iterative designs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience designing tools used by mobile sales professionals, relationship managers, or financial advisors (e.g., Salesforce, custom CRM, portfolio tools).
• Experience working directly within established design systems (building components, adhering to guidelines, contributing patterns).
• Familiarity with financial services, wealth management, or regulated enterprise environments.