UX Design Team Lead

Urban Ridge Supplies; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) + match

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Short & long term disability benefits

Life insurance

Wellness programs

Job summary

Bloomberg is seeking a highly skilled UX Team Leader to guide a team of designers across a business vertical. You will set strategy, balance delivery with long‑term direction, and partner with Product, Engineering, and senior leaders to drive outcomes and impact.

As a hands‑on leader, contribute design work to uphold quality and craft conceptual frameworks, interaction design, and the overall user experience of new products and major enhancements.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience as a UX people manager with hands‑on design leadership
• 4+ years of UX or Product design experience (IC)
• Bachelor’s or Graduate Degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Communication, or related field
• Proven user‑centered design practices including user research and advocacy for user needs
• Experience designing complex workflows, data‑heavy visuals, and information architecture
• Strong project management to drive design lifecycle from start to release

Responsibilities

• Translate user needs and business objectives into innovative design solutions
• Lead end‑to‑end design process from research to concept through to implementation
• Collaborate with business teams and engineering to ground decisions in user workflows
• Mentor and develop team members to improve impact and craft

Skills

UX leadership

Product design

User research

Design thinking

Cross‑functional collaboration

Education

HCI / Interaction Design degree

Job description

The Team:

The UX team is responsible for uncovering insights about our users’ needs and goals. We translate these insights into valuable and highly usable software solutions across a wide range of products. Through UX research and design, we accelerate our clients’ access to data and insights and develop advanced user workflows. We bring deep experience in creating innovative solutions across multiple channels - desktop, web, and mobile. We continually enhance and evolve the company’s pioneering software solution - the Bloomberg Terminal. In addition to the Terminal, we support other tools like premium desktop & web products and internal technology platforms. We are a team of researchers, product designers, prototypers, and technical writers who partner with product and technology to make our design vision into reality!

The Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated UX Team Leader who will be responsible for leading a team of designers for one of Bloomberg’s business verticals. As a team leader, you will be responsible for setting team strategy, balancing near‑term delivery needs with setting longer‑term direction, and working closely with Product, Engineering, & senior leaders to successfully drive delivery, outcomes, & impact. You will also drive strategic UX department initiatives, define new team processes & practices, and mentor, inspire, and coach team members to reach their full potential.

As a hands‑on UX leader, you will need to have strong design skills to be able to contribute & uphold quality in the team’s initiatives. You should have a passion for making complex systems intuitive and valuable, and a proven ability to drive clarity through ambiguity. You will closely partner with end users and subject matter experts and take ownership of a domain to envision and craft conceptual frameworks, interaction design, and the overall user experience of new products and major enhancements.

We’ll trust you to:

• Use your analytical and conceptual thinking to translate user needs, business objectives and technology capabilities into innovative design solutions
• Lead all aspects of the design process from customer research using qualitative and quantitative methods, conceptualizing, storyboarding, detailed design and working with engineering teams on implementing designs
• Collaborate with business teams to adopt a user centered process and ground design decisions in a detailed understanding of the customer’s workflow and needs. This would include conducting workshops with business teams, subject matter experts, and engineering. Additionally, collaborating with engineers to support the build of products as per design specifications
• Build Partnerships with cross‑functional partners & identify areas to up‑level the team’s impact continuously

We are looking for an excellent collaborator, self starter, and someone with a growth mindset - we are all still learning and we expect you to as well.

You’ll need to have:

• 2+ years experience as a UX people manager with an ability to demonstrate leadership through hands‑on design work when appropriate
• 4+ years of experience as a UX or Product designer (individual contributor)
• A Bachelor’s or Graduate Degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Visual Communication, or any design‑related field
• A track record of applying common User‑Centered Design practices, including conducting user research to tackle tough design problems. This also includes strong communication skills to advocate for the user’s needs throughout the process.
• Experience with designing complex user workflows, decision‑support systems, large dataset visualizations and framework‑level patterns, information architecture, graphic/visual design, usability research/analysis
• Project management skills to see projects through the design lifecycle from start to release. This includes the ability to independently identify what information you need and execute a plan to gather and synthesize it.
• Experience developing design team members

We’d love to see:

• Experience in the institutional finance domain and capital markets industry
• Knowledge or Experience of AI platforms, the software engineering domain, & engineering tools

Portfolio:

We are interested in reviewing two of your design projects for this position. We would like to see artifacts from across the project lifecycle to describe this project from start to end. This may include, but should not be limited to: research, personas, sketches, user journeys, task flows, wireframes, storyboards, etc. In addition to your project process artifacts, we are interested in seeing detailed wireframes illustrating a step‑by‑step user workflow for solutions that solve complex problems or opportunities. We would like to see how your process informed design choices that you made.

Please do not, without proper consent, share or disclose to Bloomberg any confidential or proprietary information that you may have obtained in connection with employment with any other employer, or which may be considered the Work Product of any other individual or entity.

Salary

Salary Range = 250,000 - 280,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus

The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

• We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others.
• The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.

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Equal Opportunity

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination in employment. It is Bloomberg’s policy to provide equal opportunity and access for all persons, and the Company is committed to attracting, retaining, developing, and promoting the most qualified individuals without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, self‑identified or perceived sex, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law (each, a “Protected Characteristic”). Bloomberg prohibits treating applicants or employees less favorably in connection with the terms and conditions of employment, in all phases of the employment process, because of one or more Protected Characteristics.