Wealth R&D Design Lead: AI-Driven Platform

STATE STREET CORPORATION; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street Corporation is seeking a Lead Designer for Wealth R&D to shape end-to-end design strategy for a consumer-facing, AI-native wealth platform. You will influence onboarding, insights, and navigation, guiding design principles with internal and external partners.

You will lead the front-end user experience, collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams, and own the design system to ensure scalable, accessible experiences.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing digital products, ideally in fintech or enterprise platforms.
• Proven track record designing consumer-facing applications with high adoption and engagement.
• Strong portfolio showing complex UX systems, interaction design depth, and polished visuals.
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools (Figma, Sketch, Principle).
• Experience with user research, journey mapping, and usability testing.
• Familiarity with AI-enhanced features and multi-persona enterprise workflows is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the conceptual design, UX architecture, and visual direction for core experiences across onboarding, insights, navigation, and AI-enabled features.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with R&D, product, engineering, and data teams to translate complex requirements into intuitive workflows.
• Partner with the product team to demo design concepts, workflows, and AI-forward interactions to leadership and clients.
• Participate in user testing planning and translate findings into actionable design improvements.
• Own and govern the application design system, interaction standards, and component library for scalability and accessibility.
• Drive rapid ideation, prototyping, and iteration of new capabilities including personalized experiences and financial education tools.
• Set and uphold design quality standards and end-to-end design roadmap; mentor designers and foster design excellence.

Skills

UX design leadership

AI-forward design

User testing

Presenting to stakeholders

Systems thinking

Mentoring designers

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Principle

Job description

State Street Corporation is seeking a Lead Designer for Wealth R&D to shape end-to-end design strategy for a consumer-facing, AI-native wealth platform. You will influence onboarding, insights, and navigation, guiding design principles with internal and external partners.

You will lead the front-end user experience, collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams, and own the design system to ensure scalable, accessible experiences.