Director, Principal Product Designer - Aladdin Design

BlackRock - New York, NY

Hiring: Director, Principal Product Designer - Aladdin Design Company: BlackRock Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 11:41:31 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Accessibility, Agile, Design System, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Product Management, Product Strategy, Risk Management, Systems Design, UX Design, User Experience About the job Experience: •12+ years of experience designing complex digital products, including significant experience with enterprise software. Required Skills: •This is a hands-on leadership role. •Help shape the future of investment technology. •This is a senior individual contributor role for a design leader who thrives on solving complex problems, influencing product strategy, and elevating design excellence across cross-functional teams. •The Aladdin UX Design team creates the experiences behind one of the world’s leading investment and risk management platforms. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders to transform complex financial workflows into intuitive, scalable, and trusted experiences. Qualifications: •You are a senior design leader with deep experience in enterprise and financial technology environments. You think in systems, operate at platform scale, and are comfortable defining and delivering design strategy across complex, regulated products. •You bring strong commercial awareness and understand how design drives business value, ensuring coherence across products, consistency across workflows, and alignment with business requirements. •You are accountable not just for experience quality, but for measurable outcomes including client adoption, workflow efficiency, risk reduction, and decision effectiveness. •Equally comfortable influencing executive decision-making and working through ambiguity, you operate confidently at both strategic and execution levels, getting close to the detail when needed. •Lead UX strategy for complex product areas across the Aladdin platform. •Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and business leaders to shape product vision from concept through delivery. •Translate business strategy, customer needs, and technical capabilities into intuitive, scalable user experiences. •Shape coherent platform experiences by identifying opportunities that span products, teams, and investment workflows. •Drive discovery through customer research, workshops, design sprints, prototyping, and iterative validation. •Use qualitative research, product analytics, and experimentation to inform design decisions. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!