Associate, UX Designer

Wealth Management (WM) Platforms manages industry-leading platforms, across all WM channels and client segments, to provide a unified digital experience, unlock growth, and deliver efficiencies for Advisors, Clients, and Institutions. WM Platforms consists of nine sub-teams including:
Field Experience & Platforms, Digital Client Experience & Platforms, Workplace Platforms, Automation & Workflow Solutions, Digital Trading & Investing, UX Design & Research, Strategy & Execution. Business Control & Support, and the Chief Operating Office.

The Morgan Stanley Wealth Management UX team builds digital experiences that help our clients manage their finances and monitor their investments easily on the Morgan Stanley and E
* TRADE from Morgan Stanley platforms. Our growing team of designers and researchers bring an entrepreneurial spirit to a leading global financial firm. We employ design thinking methods and user-centered approaches to solve real business problems. If you can bring clarity to complexity, design holistically in an immense product ecosystem, and have gone the extra mile to create delight, we want you!

The Morgan Stanley Prime Brokerage division offers Hedge Funds and other large Institutional Investment clients; platforms, applications, and tools and support, to allow them to conduct and manage their business. Morgan Stanley Fund Services helps those funds connect, communicate and service their investors as an administrator. We are positioned within these groups, as a partner with technology, business development and operations to help optimize and create tools and applications by following our UX design process focused on User Centered Design.

Working closely with the UX lead, help formulate and execute the product vision by being involved in every step of the end-to-end product design process

Understand and document the underlying needs and motivation of our clients to ensure we achieve business goals and provide value to our clients

Work closely with our research team to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data and make value-driven design decisions that translate into clear, simple UIs

Create and present a variety of design deliverables (sketches, wireframes, user flows and prototypes) in a way that engenders confidence in you and your solutions with the team and the greater organization

Design and deliver responsive/adaptive solutions that are optimized for web and mobile interfaces and partner with engineers to translate designs into successful products

Work closely with the larger Wealth Management UX team to share design best practices, align on patterns, and promote a design-centric culture at the firm

Advocate for all user abilities by thoroughly testing design deliverables to meet WCAG ADA compliance Relevant experience and mindset

You have an outstanding portfolio that demonstrates how you have created experiences that solved business and user needs

You’ve spent 2-5 years as a UX designer who was a key contributor to the success of products that have launched

You have a bachelor's degree in design or related field preferably, master’s degree a plus

You have experience designing intuitive interfaces that enhance user experience and drive customer engagement

You can leverage research, wireframes and prototypes to effectively validate and enhance your design concepts to achieve the best possible solutions for your users

You thrive in a collaborative, explorative environment and you value being on a diverse team to brainstorm and get feedback from within a large organization

You practice active listening and contribute in group situations, like brainstorms, audits, critiques, and whiteboard sessions

You get excited by complex projects with high levels of ambiguity and are resilient in the face of obstacles

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients…