Title: UX Product Designer - Aladdin Design, Director Location: New York United States time type Full time job requisition id R264979 About this role About the Role: Help shape the future of investment technology. At BlackRock, design plays a critical role in helping investment professionals navigate complexity with confidence. As a Director, Product Design, you’ll help define the future of the Aladdin platform by designing sophisticated enterprise experiences used by institutional investors, portfolio managers, traders, risk managers, private market investors, and operations teams around the world. This is a senior individual contributor role for a design leader who thrives on solving complex problems, influencing product strategy, and elevating design excellence across cross-functional teams. About the Aladdin UX Design Team: The Aladdin UX Design team creates the experiences behind one of the world’s leading investment and risk management platforms. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders to transform complex financial workflows into intuitive, scalable, and trusted experiences. Our team believes great enterprise software begins with a deep understanding of the people using it. We combine research, systems thinking, design craft, and emerging technologies to build products that empower better investment decisions. About You: - You are a senior design leader with deep experience in enterprise and financial technology environments. You think in systems, operate at platform scale, and are comfortable defining and delivering design strategy across complex, regulated products. - You bring strong commercial awareness and understand how design drives business value, ensuring coherence across products, consistency across workflows, and alignment with business requirements. - You are accountable not just for experience quality, but for measurable outcomes including client adoption, workflow efficiency, risk reduction, and decision effectiveness. - Equally comfortable influencing executive decision-making and working through ambiguity, you operate confidently at both strategic and execution levels, getting close to the detail when needed. What You’ll Do: - Lead UX strategy for complex product areas across the Aladdin platform. - Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and business leaders to shape product vision from concept through delivery. - Translate business strategy, customer needs, and technical capabilities into intuitive, scalable user experiences. - Shape coherent platform experiences by identifying opportunities that span products, teams, and investment workflows. - Drive discovery through customer research, workshops, design sprints, prototyping, and iterative validation. - Use qualitative research, product analytics, and experimentation to inform design decisions. - Influence product direction and executive decision-making through compelling storytelling, frameworks, and design rationale. - Champion design quality, systems thinking, accessibility, and consistency across the platform. - Explore opportunities where AI and intelligent automation can enhance user workflows while maintaining clarity, trust, and human oversight. - Leverage AI throughout the design process to accelerate research synthesis, concept generation, prototyping, and evaluation while maintaining high standards of design judgment. - Define interaction models for AI-driven and data-intensive experiences - Mentor designers and contribute to the growth of the design practice through coaching, critique, and thought leadership, while remaining an individual contributor. - Contribute to design capability, standards, and organizational evolution. Qualifications: Required - 12+ years of experience designing complex digital products, including significant experience with enterprise software. - Demonstrated experience designing sophisticated financial products, investment platforms, private market platforms, trading systems, risk management tools, or similar financial technology solutions. - Experience leading design across interconnected product ecosystems, balancing local product needs with platform-wide consistency. - Strong understanding of designing for investors and financial professionals in complex, highly regulated environments, with the ability to translate sophisticated investment workflows into intuitive, effective user experiences. - Work samples demonstrating strategic thinking, systems design, and end-to-end problem solving across complex enterprise experiences. - Expertise in human-centered design, interaction design, information architecture, prototyping, and UX research methodologies. - Experience influencing product strategy and partnering with executive stakeholders for better outcomes for users. - Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around user-centered outcomes. - Experience working within Agile product development environments and cross-functional teams. - Experience utilizing AI tools within the design process to enhance exploration, prototyping, and delivery. - Experience designing with an AI-first mindset, considering how intelligent systems can augment user workflows and decision-making. - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience. AI & Data (Required) - Experience designing AI-powered and data-intensive products, particularly in complex decision-support environments such as investment, risk, or portfolio workflows - Ability to design intelligent workflows that integrate data, analytics, and AI to support expert user decision-making - Strong understanding of designing for transparency, explainability, and trust in regulated financial systems - Experience partnering with Engineering and Risk to operationalize AI within real-world user workflows. - Familiarity with designing across structured and unstructured data domains, including alternative data and analytics platforms You’ll Stand Out If: - You continuously evolve your practice by experimenting with new technologies and design methods as a way to improve quality and efficiency. - You've designed AI-powered experiences that help users make better decisions while maintaining transparency, trust, and appropriate human oversight. - You've helped define interaction patterns, design systems, or platform principles that enabled multiple teams to deliver more coherent user experiences. - You're known for bringing clarity to ambiguous problem spaces and influencing organizations beyond the boundaries of your immediate product team. Candidates progressing to final stages will be asked to present 2–3 case studies demonstrating: - Impact on complex enterprise or financial systems - Provide examples of challenges overcome and trade-offs made - Delivery of measurable user and business outcomes - Approach to system-level and platform design challenges For New York, NY Only the salary range for this position is USD$215,000.00 - USD$275,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance. Our benefits To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about. Our hybrid work model BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock. Guidance on AI use for candidates At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self. About BlackRock At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress. This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive. To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com. We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok. BlackRock is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEOC’s Know Your Rights poster and its supplement and the pay transparency statement. BlackRock is committed to full inclusion of all qualified individuals and to providing reasonable accommodations or job modifications for individuals with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation/adjustments are needed throughout the employment process, please email Disability.Assistance@blackrock.com. All requests are treated in line with our privacy policy. BlackRock will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in a manner consistent with the requirements of the law, including any applicable fair chance law.

Role Description As a Founding Product Designer, you'll work at the earliest stages of company creation alongside founders, product managers, engineers, and venture builders. You'll help transform bold ideas into intuitive, scalable products by owning the end-to-end design process from customer discovery and wireframes to polished user interfaces and design systems. Rather than working on a single product, you'll have the opportunity to design products across multiple AI and enterprise software ventures. What You'll Do - Design world-class user experiences for AI, enterprise software, and technology products. - Translate founder ideas into intuitive user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity interfaces. - Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineers throughout the product development lifecycle. - Conduct customer research, usability testing, and user interviews to validate product decisions. - Create and maintain scalable design systems and reusable UI components. - Shape product strategy by balancing user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility. - Design MVPs that enable founders to validate ideas quickly and reach product-market fit. - Help define product branding and visual identity for new ventures where appropriate. - Iterate rapidly based on customer feedback, analytics, and experimentation. - Support multiple ventures across the 16VC Studio portfolio. Qualifications - 3+ years of experience in Product Design, UX Design, or UI Design. - A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design for web or mobile applications. - Expertise with Figma, prototyping, and modern design workflows. - Strong understanding of interaction design, information architecture, accessibility, and user-centred design. - Experience collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. - Comfortable working in fast-moving startup environments with high ownership. - Excellent communication and problem-solving skills. - Passion for startups, AI, enterprise software, and building products from zero to one. Requirements - Experience designing AI, SaaS, enterprise software, fintech, or developer tools. - Experience designing dashboards, workflows, or data-intensive applications. - Basic understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, React). - Experience at an early-stage startup or venture studio. Benefits - Build products that become venture-backed companies. - Work directly with founders, investors, and experienced operators. - Design products from idea to launch with real ownership. - Help shape multiple startups instead of a single product. - Collaborate with ambitious teams building the next generation of enterprise software and AI companies. - Competitive compensation with equity opportunities where applicable.

• Lead end-to-end design for complex, ambiguous audit workflows, from problem definition through shipped solutions • Partner closely with Product and Engineering to shape strategy, influence roadmaps, and deliver high-quality, scalable implementations • Drive design execution with minimal direction, operating effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment • Translate customer needs, research insights, and business goals into clear user journeys, interaction models, and polished UI • Balance speed and iteration with usability, consistency, and long-term product quality • Advocate for users while accounting for technical, regulatory, and business constraints • Own a significant product area or customer journey, anticipating downstream impacts across workflows and personas • Set a high bar for craft and influence by contributing to the design system, mentoring peers, and serving as a trusted design voice.

• Own the platform's visual language and design system — components, patterns, tokens, layout, typography, and motion • Treat accessibility as a first-class design constraint • Build a shared foundation every surface can draw from • Lead end-to-end design of new product areas and complex reworks • Design AI-mediated experiences, multi-step workflows, data-dense admin surfaces • Run research directly with users and customers