Associate, UX/UI Designer

About This Role

As an Associate, UX/UI Designer at BlackRock, you will play a crucial role in evolving and maintaining a unified design system. This position involves both strategic design thinking and hands-on execution, ensuring high-quality user experiences across various projects.

You will be instrumental in delivering data-heavy digital designs, taking end-to-end ownership of UI design projects from requirements definition and discovery to user validation and implementing high-fidelity specifications. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to impactful projects within a leading financial management firm.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute, maintain, and evolve a unified design system, conducting audits and identifying areas for improvement.
• Determine project timelines and resources, managing schedules with limited interdependencies.
• Present design solutions effectively to cross-functional partners to gain alignment.
• Deliver high-fidelity wireframes, interactive prototypes, and detailed visual designs for key roadmap projects.
• Document specifications and standards for engineering, leading visual QA of deliverables to ensure design perfection in production.
• Enforce design standards, provide detailed feedback, and collaborate with engineering and product management.
• Validate design ideas through user testing, leveraging data to inform solutions and rationale.

Qualifications

To succeed in this Associate, UX/UI Designer role, you should possess a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Human Computer Interaction, UX Design, Digital Design, or a related field, along with two (2) years of experience in a similar capacity (e.g., UX Design Lead, Associate Director, Associate Designer).

Specific experience required includes:

• Two (2) years of experience delivering data-heavy digital designs within multi-functional teams.
• Two (2) years of experience with end-to-end ownership of UI design projects, including defining requirements, leading discovery, conducting user-validated iterations, and implementing high-fidelity specifications.
• Two (2) years of experience with design tools such as Sketch, InVision, and Figma.
• Two (2) years of experience with visual design elements, including Typography, Iconography, Color Theory, Layout, and Composition.
• One (1) year of experience working with design systems and contributing to pattern libraries, including identifying component gaps and documenting new patterns.
• Six (6) months of experience with CSS/HTML.

Our Benefits

BlackRock offers a comprehensive benefits package to support employees, including a robust retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, extensive healthcare coverage, support for working parents, and Flexible Time Off (FTO).

Our Hybrid Work Model

BlackRock embraces a hybrid work model, requiring employees to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. This model fosters collaboration, apprenticeship, and an enriched employee experience, accelerating learning and onboarding for new joiners.

Key skills/competency

• UX Design
• UI Design
• Design Systems
• Wireframing
• Prototyping
• Figma
• Sketch
• InVision
• Visual Design
• User Testing