Senior Associate, Senior Product Designer

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week

• Design concepting and detailed design handoff to development.
• Lead early‑stage design concepting by turning ambiguous problem spaces into clear, testable concepts and experience flows grounded in user and business needs.
• Work closely with design leadership to ensure consistent application of standards and alignment with evolving strategic direction.
• Translate validated concepts into detailed, production‑ready design specifications, including component‑level documentation, edge cases, and responsive behaviours.
• Partner closely with engineering during handoff and implementation, providing clear design artifacts, answering questions, and reviewing builds to ensure high‑quality execution.

• Contribute to the end‑to‑end design of a portfolio of digital products, ensuring each experience is usable, engaging, and aligned to the broader product strategy.
• Prioritize design efforts across multiple work streams, balancing long‑term vision work with near‑term delivery needs in partnership with Product and Engineering.
• Perform end‑to‑end design research and discovery activities to inform experience strategy, content, and UX decisions across both our financial education platform and
• Drive consistency and quality across the portfolio by leveraging and evolving shared design systems, patterns, and standards.
• Understand the impact of design across products, using insights to iterate and inform experience improvements.

• Partner with cross functional team for delivery:
  Collaborate with design leadership, product owners, engineering, and implementation teams, driving alignment and decision‑making across a large‑scale, multi‑year implementation and in‑year MVP delivery.
• Contribute to co‑creation and workshops:
  Participate in working sessions to define and ideate, align stakeholders, and enable confident decisions.
• Partner with design leadership:
  Collaborate closely with design, product, and business leadership across NYL to shape project direction, maintain alignment with strategic objectives, and advocate for a cohesive, experience‑led vision across teams.

• Portfolio – please include a portfolio or case studies as a document or link with your resume when applying; do not use Dropbox or other file sharing solutions.
• Expert understanding of human‑centered design principles, interaction design, visual design, and user experience.
• BA / BS in a relevant field such as Design, Interaction Design, Communication Design or a related discipline; equivalent practical experience will also be considered.

• At least 5 years in digital product design, including a track record of shipping high‑quality digital designs for consumers and a range of digital product types (responsive web, apps, portals, etc.).
• Experience with designing for multiple projects in a fast‑paced, very deadline‑driven environment.
• Experience leveraging design systems and comfort working with content‑heavy experiences and structured systems.

• A successful track record of shipping digital experience designs in a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment across a range of front‑ends and platforms (content management systems, low/no‑code platforms, framework‑based front ends, native apps).
• Familiarity with technical architecture concepts including service‑oriented architecture and micro‑services, data models, and front‑end programming (HTML, CSS).
• Mastery of design and prototyping tools (Figma, Adobe Creative Suite) and digital whiteboard/facilitation tools (Figjam, Miro).

Salary Range: $105,000 – $125,000

Overtime eligible:
Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible:
Yes

Sales bonus eligible:
No

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

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