Sr. Product Designer (UX)

SVB Financial
Sanfrancisco, CA
28 Nov 2024

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When you work with the world's most innovative companies, you know you're making a difference.

Our clients are the game changers, leaders and investors who fuel the global innovation economy. They're the businesses behind the next medical breakthroughs. And the visionaries whose new technologies could transform the way people live and work.

They come to SVB for our expertise, deep network and 30+ years of experience in the industries we serve, and to partner with diverse teams of passionate, enterprising SVBers, dedicated to an inclusive approach to helping them grow and succeed at every stage of their business.

Join us at SVB and be part of bringing our clients' world-changing ideas to life. At SVB, we have the opportunity to grow and collectively make an impact by supporting the innovative clients and communities SVB serves. We pride ourselves in having both a diverse client roster and an equally diverse and inclusive organization. And we work diligently to encourage all with different ways of thinking, different ways of working, and especially those traditionally underrepresented in technology and financial services, to apply.

Job Description Senior Product Designer (UX)

About SVB:

Silicon Valley Bank is the most sought-after financial partner in the global innovation economy. We bring together entrepreneurs, investors, ventures capitalists, and private equity firms to move their bold ideas forward, fast.

Our clients define what comes next.

In the past 35 years, we've accumulated more experience with start-ups and high-growth tech than any other company in the world. In fact, a majority of the most compelling Fintech disruptors bank with us. Our clients include: Beyond Meat, Shopify, HelloFresh, Cloudera, and Andreessen Horowitz, just to name a few. We help our clients grow, too. More than half of the innovation companiesthat completed an IPO in the last two years were our clients.

Our accomplishments serve as motivation to continue pushing ourselves and we are committed to delivering user-centered, high-impact solutions to our clients. We are looking for creative thinkers who want to challenge the status quo and create a truly seamless digital banking experience on a global scale.

About the Role:

The Senior Product Designer is theinspirationalforce behind a high-impact team dedicated to transforming how users experience SVB products and services. This role will be responsible for helping to lead UX design for a SVB banking clients with a focus on Liquidity Solutions ; including, Investment , US Deposit and Global Deposit services tailored to meet client needs .

The ideal candidate is:
  • An experienced and creative UX designer who is deeply passionate about design, product, and the end-to-end user experience
  • A collabo r at o r who can work with designers and non-designers alike to align, influence and execute
  • Able to break down complex problems and provide human-centric solutions through excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Able to work independently, quickly and reliably in a fast-paced, creative environment with a keen attention to detail

Once Here, You Will:
  • F ollow best practices and deliver consistently on-brand, world-class design solutions
  • Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and other cross functional stakeholders to understand business objectives, needs, and constraints
  • Create high quality UX deliverables based on user goals and priorities, including annotated wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, high-fidelity prototypes and production ready final assets
  • Partner with user researcher and product to deepen understanding of users, products and services
  • Provide insights to the product development team and document user goals, needs, motivations and pain points through user personas, use cases, and experience maps
  • Communicate complex design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences at varying levels of the organization with minimal conflict and complications between collaborative and cross-functional personnel
  • Leverage user insights from user research to make recommendations to improve the user experience and create new concepts to bring those recommendations to life
  • Provide guidance to UI/UX style guides to support core brand look and feel and help ensure designs stay on-brand and on-trend
  • Create future state visions that align with broader product strategy and create impact for the business through a deep understanding of the user journey and user needs
  • Use strong storytelling and presentation skills to communicate conceptual ideas, design rationale and the specifics of human-centered design process in all phases of the product development lifecycle, including product ideation and definition, UX design, and user research, detailed design and optimization

What You'll Bring:
  • A strong portfolio of work exemplifying a deep understanding of UI/UX lifecycle to define user experiences, visual and interaction design through human-centered design solutions (flows, prototypes, and user feedback)
  • A collaborative Design Thinking mindset and a Lean UX approach
  • Experience delivering on multiple projects in various stages of the product lifecycle in a fast paced, dynamic environment
  • A mastery of the UI/UX lifecycle with deep experience defining user experience, visual design, interaction design, user research, and design principles
  • A strong knowledge of Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, or other tools for generating low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes
  • A history of designing omni-channel experiences, including desktop, mobile web and mobile app experiences (designing for chat-bots or IA is a plus)
  • A knowledge of current web technology capabilities and cross-device considerations
  • An ability to communicate respectfully when challenging assumptions and tactful style when receiving feedback
  • 7+ years' experience .
  • A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in the study of design including one of the following: Design, Information Architecture, HCI, or equivalent project/portfolio experience (preferred)
  • A knowledge of design, repository, story and backlog management tools and resources
  • Experience working in and an understanding of an Agile development environment
  • Nice to have: Background in the financial services industry.

Join us at SVB and be a part of bringing our clients' world-changing ideas to life.

For more than 35 years, SVB Financial Group (NASDAQ: SIVB) and its subsidiaries have helped innovative companies and their investors move bold ideas forward, fast. SVB Financial Group's businesses, including Silicon Valley Bank, offer commercial and private banking, asset management, private wealth management, brokerage and investment services and funds management services to companies in the technology, life science and healthcare, private equity and venture capital, and premium wine industries. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, SVB Financial Group operates in centers of innovation around the world. Learn more at svb.com.

SVB Financial Group is an equal opportunity employer.

At SVB, we have the opportunity to grow and collectively make an impact by supporting the innovative clients and communities SVB serves. We pride ourselves in having both a diverse client roster and an equally diverse and inclusive organization. And we work diligently to encourage all with different ways of thinking, different ways of working, and especially those traditionally underrepresented in technology and financial services, to apply.

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