User Experience Design Lead -Vice President

You will have the unique opportunity to shape the future of banking. Working alongside a diverse team of Experience Researchers and Content Designers, you will play a crucial role in decision-making processes, planning, and execution. This role offers a chance for career growth and the opportunity to make a significant impact in the banking industry.

As a Vice PresidentUser Experience Design Lead for Consumer & community Banking, you will lead large and impactful initiatives, utilizing a facilitative leadership style with senior design, research, product, and engineering leaders. Though without formal direct reports, User Experience Design Lead must be comfortable and capable of leading multi-disciplinary teams across the full range of design practice, from up-front research, insights, and strategy, though to ideation, prototyping, and testing, and to delivery of final designs 

Job Responsibilities

• Advocate for the users’ perspective when collaborating with Product Managers and Engineers to plan roadmaps, gather requirements, and structure the work
• Drive creation of new product and business strategy at the intersection of user needs and business goals
• Lead multiple, parallel teams in the design and re-design of end-to-end experiences 
• Communicate expectations within the design team for standards of quality through creative direction and critique
• Contribute to the creation of visions (“north stars”) that make strategy concrete
• Create strategic design deliverables such as strategy decks, customer journeys, visions of future experiences and evangelize these cross-product “blueprints” across teams
• Advance Chase’s practice in craft capabilities, internally through mentorship and training, externally through writing and conference presentations

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant design discipline (e.g., Interaction Design, HCI, User Experience Design), certification from credible bootcamp or similar accelerated learning program, or equivalent work experience
• Can direct self and others in both planning and structuring the work, and executing on expected levels of quality
• Experience leading a program of work through full product development cycles in discovery, concepting, prototypes, specifications, and enablement
• Prior work involves leading design teams (with other Designers, UX Researchers, and Content Designers) and cross-functional collaboration with senior Product Managers and Engineering leads
• Expertise in Interaction Design, and strength in Visual/UI Design or Information Architecture; Intermediate proficiency in adjacent skills such as User Research, UX Writing, Prototyping, and Service Design
• Strong facilitation skills and experience employing a variety of methods and techniques to run complex design-led workshops
• Has driven new business thinking and strategy through their user-centered design work

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Advocate for Accessibility Guidelines and Inclusive Design practices
• Comfortable with structuring and planning design work in cross-functional contexts
• Able to show how their understanding of technical constraints and opportunities informed design solutions; Familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, frameworks such as React, and mobile UI standards

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.