User Experience Senior Product Designer, Specialist

Senior Product Designer

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to help shape the future of investing at Vanguard. In this role, you’ll partner closely with the Lead UX Strategist for Trade and collaborate across channel teams and money movement to deliver seamless, intuitive experiences for our clients.

Unlike roles aligned to a single lab, you’ll have the opportunity to influence the broader Trade experience—balancing design for the future state with hands-on support for ongoing modernization initiatives and supporting the shared component library. You’ll play a key part in ensuring our trading journeys are cohesive, client-centered, and ready for what’s next.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Brings experience designing for investment transactions and complex financial workflows.

• Is deeply curious about the intricacies of investing and eager to translate that into intuitive user experiences.

• Thrives on solving complex problems through cross-functional collaboration.

• Enjoys working alongside a talented UX team committed to crafting robust, human-centered solutions.

• Values strong partnerships with product managers and developers—the broader Trade family—to bring ideas to life.

Core Responsibilities

• Designs complex user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and UI elements to deliver a seamless user experience across mobile and web platforms, while utilizing established brand standards.

• Develops user experience interface architecture strategies to support and improve the user interface. Leads cross-family initiatives to meet business and marketing goals.

• Partners with cross-departmental teams and business leaders to prioritize UX efforts that align with business objectives. Helps translate user needs and feedback into actionable product features. Coordinates and delivers design, prototype, and documentation to improve the user experience.

• Collaborates with research and data analytics teams to incorporate quantitative and qualitative data into the design process, ensuring decisions are informed by user insights. Leverage experimentation to validate hypothesis across the feasibility, desirability, and viability spectrum.

• Analyzes market trends, competitive analysis, OKRs, and user behavior to develop UX strategies that inform design decisions and product direction.

• Advocates for user-centered design solutions that evolve with changing business goals and user needs, while keeping a close eye on emerging technologies and design trends.

• Ensures our UX practices align with industry standards and yield minimum waste. Trains and mentors junior staff in best practices of user experience design. Provides guidance, training, and motivation.

• Develops and leverages a professional network across the enterprise to foster collaboration within the department to support department-wide initiatives, and to advocate for UX having a voice in the decision-making and planning process

• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of industry/field experience in user experience design. Product design experience preferred.

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience in a creative or technical field.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.