UI Designer – Design Language, Associate

The Morgan Stanley Wealth Management UX team builds digital experiences that help our clients manage their finances and monitor their investments easily on the Morgan Stanley and E*TRADE from Morgan Stanley platforms. Our growing team of designers and researchers bring an entrepreneurial spirit to a leading global financial firm. We employ design thinking methods and user-centered approaches to solve real business problems. If you can bring clarity to complexity, design holistically in an immense product ecosystem, and have gone the extra mile to create delight, we want you!

We are seeking a Designer for our Design System Team who will help evolve and mature Campfire – our design system. In this role, you will collaborate with other designers on projects influencing nearly every creative output from component creation, application of design system, interaction design, and execution. You’ll be asked to look beyond the day-to-day, balancing long-term thinking while working within existing constraints. Above all, you will use your expertise to advocate for web best practices of visual and interaction design. Reporting into a Design System Lead, you will collaborate extensively with Product Designers, Engineers and Product Owners.

Once here you will…

• Continue to evolve and refine a design language that resonates with our clients
• Partner closely with UI/UX leadership to create design consistency and quality across the platform
• Foster continual design system education throughout the team
• Promote inclusive design; designing for equity and accessibility (ensuring WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance)
• Form strong partnerships with engineering teams to create frictionless design system implementation
• Implement and maintain processes tools for UI/UX engineering team to utilize our design system
• Review in-flight designs with Product Designers for holistic application of a design solution
• Contribute to a culture of continual creative improvement and innovation, excellence and accountability
• Understand the underlying needs and motivation of our clients to ensure we achieve business goals and provide value to our clients
• Work closely with our research team to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data and make value-driven design decisions that translate into clear, simple UIs
• Design and deliver responsive/adaptive solutions that are optimized for web and mobile interfaces and partner with engineers to translate designs into successful products
• Work closely with the larger Wealth Management UI/UX team to share design best practices, align on patterns, and promote a design-centric culture at the firm

Relevant experience and mindset…

• You have 2-5 years of experience as a UI Designer working in a cross-functional team
• You have an outstanding portfolio that demonstrates how you have created experiences that solved business and user needs
• Candidate required to submit portfolio with previous case studies; linked to resume
• You have a bachelor's degree in design or related field preferably, master’s degree a plus
• You have a refined design aesthetic and can confidently communicate clear direction and provide timely and helpful feedback to keep work on schedule
• You have excellent skills in Figma
• You have a basic understanding of HTML/CSS
• You have an advanced understanding of web components, interaction design, visual design and industry trends
• You are fluent in responsive design, mobile/tablet UI
• You can establish deep relationships across the entire Design department
• You are a ‘self-starter’ who is driven and seeks out opportunities
• You thrive in a collaborative, explorative environment and value being on a diverse team that you can bounce ideas off of, get critical feedback from, and unite with to mature design thinking within a large organization
• You practice active listening and contribute in group situations (i.e. brainstorms, audits, critiques, whiteboard sessions, etc.)
• You get excited by complex projects with high levels of ambiguity and are resilient in the face of obstacles
• You have a relentless desire to validate assumptions and uncover a problem’s root cause by testing, learning, and iterating
• You constantly seek opportunities to evangelize and promote design thinking in a large organization

Why work at Morgan Stanley?

Besides a competitive salary, work life balance, a clear career path, and great benefits, we take the well-being and work satisfaction of our employees seriously. That’s why we put a lot of effort towards creating a safe space for people to be vulnerable, share work, and ask questions that will help them both to grow individually and move their projects forward. You’ll be encouraged to bring your own perspective to conversations, and we will help you understand and put into practice what you naturally do best by amplifying each other’s strengths.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Salary range for the position: $80,000 and $115,000 per year. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit’s incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).