VP Experience Design

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Department

MIS Tech

Role/Responsibilities

The VP - Experience Design is a highly skilled practitioner responsible for the design and delivery of exceptional end user experiences across the Analytics Line of Business. This individual has a strong understanding of Analytics domain, including data-driven products and employs a user-centered design methodology create a seamless experience across various products supporting financial models, data insights, visualization and presentation.

The VP-XD reports directly to the SVP, Experience Design and collaborates directly with product strategists and business stakeholders, functioning as a key leader in the overall product organization. In addition, you are comfortable leading and developing an experience design team by managing, mentoring, and coaching a mix of visual designers, interaction designers, and usability researchers, while setting the tone as the team leader.

• Strategic Planning: The VP-XD is responsible for defining the UX vision and strategy that aligns with the organization's business goals and objectives and deliver a seamless customer experience across products in the Analytics space, internally and externally.
• Team Leadership: The VP-XD will manage and lead a team of UX designers. You are responsible for providing direction, setting goals, delegating work, and ensuring your team has a clear customer experience strategy for the work you will deliver.
• Design Oversight: You are responsible for design deliverables across multiple products that focus on dashboards, data visualization, data analysis, financial modelling, report generation, etc. and oversee all design work to ensure it aligns with the overall customer experience strategy as well as aligning to our in-house design system.
• Stakeholder Communication: You are the primary point of contact between the XD team and Analytics stakeholders within the business and the product organization. You are responsible for building a strategic partnership with product owners.
• Design Facilitation: VP-XD will attend, and at times, lead design workshops and visioning sessions with various stakeholders. You will simplify and unify complex information, data and metrics into design concepts, intuitive interactions, flows, graphs, and other forms of visual representation to facilitate collaboration, participation, and feedback from users.
• User Research: VP-XD oversees, and at times, facilitates customer research efforts to gain insights into customer needs and behaviors.
• Mentorship: VP-XD is expected to mentor junior XD team members, inside and outside your team, helping them to grow professionally and improve their design skills.
• Collaboration: VP-XD works in a multidisciplinary environment on experience design activities, throughout the full software development lifecycles often leading numerous design initiatives concurrently.
• Keeping Up with Trends: You stay updated with the latest UX and data visualization trends, tools, and methodologies, and incorporate them into the UX strategy when relevant.
• Design System: You will contribute to our in-house design system, maintaining and evolving consistency in design and behavior across products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required, master's degree in HCI preferred
• Proven experience leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to define problems and validate solutions
• Expert level experience as an experience design leader for web and mobile interfaces
• Expert knowledge with Agile software methodologies. Formal training in one or more recognized Agile methodologies (Scrum, XP, Kanban, etc.) or toolsets (JIRA, Rally, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience in understanding analytics and presenting complex data, designing dashboards, data visualization and interactive solutions to assess, analyse, manipulate and present data in user-friendly formats
• Demonstrated experience with AI tools and capabilities
• Expert level knowledge and skill in all phases of the user-centered design methodology
• Ability to work both hands on and at a more strategic level
• Expert oral, written and presentation skills
• Demonstrated experience mentoring and managing others
• Extensive experience with user-centered design patterns, systems, and methodologies
• Expert ability to communicate abstract concepts to audiences that are not skilled in the user experience discipline
• Strong work ethic
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity, complexity, and has a passion for challenges
• Detail-oriented self-starter with ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Expert knowledge of Axure and Figma
• Extensive experience in financial services and working within an enterprise environment preferred
• Will work in office 2 days a week (Tues/Wed), this position is not remote
• Ability to travel for workshops and meetings

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For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $178,500 to $258,500, depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location. This range is based on a full-time position. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for incentive compensation. Moody's also offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.

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