Job Description

Do you live and breathe product design? Are you passionate about the design of complex financial systems? Do you yearn to craft the most beautiful, accessible, and valuable experiences? Do you want to work in a dynamic, stimulating industry that has global reach and huge impact? LSEG Design is looking for outstanding design managers to join our growing product design team. Our flagship platforms and products are used by many thousands of users across the globe. Traders, brokers, wealth analysts, C-level, portfolio managers, researchers, risk analysts, and others use them in diverse ways, in different contexts, in different countries, in different workflows, and with different needs. Our users rely on our products to deliver real-time, highly complex information in a way that they need, when they need it. This is delivered via desktop, mobile and web. Our platforms and products lead the financial industry. They offer fantastic opportunities for designers to really push the bounds of what is possible and deliver outstanding experiences for our customers. Key Responsibilities As a Senior Design Manager, you will: Manage a large distributed multi-disciplinary team. You are an assured leader and a role model for the team you are working with Be dependable and accountable for the team's timely delivery of the right business outcomes Partner with other design managers, product managers and engineers to define the vision, create and prioritize the product roadmap Support your team in defining, monitoring and delivering against a set of specific and measurable objectives Connect the dots across product areas to create a cohesive and scalable conceptual model and customer experience Communicate and align with stakeholders, to keep them informed on the team direction, successes, demands and changes Work through implementation issues with specific product and engineering teams Report team progress regularly to primary director and executive/VP-level sponsors Working with design directors, define the bar for design quality and consistency Conduct regular reviews and health checks with team members to identify successes, demands, perspectives and preferences. About you As a Senior Design Manager, you will: Have a degree, preferably to Masters level, in design or a relevant discipline. We do appreciate there are ways into experience design outside of formal education. Whatever the route you've taken, you should have a firm grip on your discipline's body of knowledge as well as the wider design and product delivery practice Have a long history of successfully guiding multi-disciplinary teams and driving project work within the professional financial or similarly complex enterprise industries Have worked across all 4 stages of the double diamond: Discover, Define, Develop and Deliver Have experience in growing less experienced designers by using different coaching styles (direct vs. suggestive) Have strong communication skills across a wide variety of colleagues and stakeholders Have experience working with PM and engineering in a fast-moving environment Have a highly proficient level of English to work in an English-speaking international environment Next Steps We are an established multi-disciplinary full-spectrum product design team who have had a major impact on LSEG products over the past several years. We are embarking on a new phase of growth, focusing on new major initiatives which will strengthen LSEG's status as the leading data aggregator and provider of high-quality information in the financial & risk professional world. If you share our values of collaboration, commitment to helping our users and each other, and a willingness to take the initiative and learn from mistakes, then we'd be very happy to hear from you. Finally, we would love to see examples of your own design explorations, design specs and final designs. While we are interested in the final outcome, we are most interested to know how you got there and how you knew it was or wasn't a success. We want to hear how you tackled actual examples of complex, demanding briefs, how you evaluated your performance, what did you learn, and what you did differently next time Are you intrigued by some of the most exciting experience design opportunities? Come join us.

At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise of creating essential partnerships and open opportunities. Our open culture is central to how we deliver our purpose - driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth - in everything we do.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 70 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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