About this role

Company: BlackRock Corporation US, Inc.

Job Title: Associate, User Experience Designer

Location: 400 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

Job Duties: Collaborate with product owners, partners, and engineering to understand business requests, desired outcomes, and create innovative product visions. Conduct research to understand and define user problems and define desired product features and capabilities. Function as a bridge between disciplines, such as design, product, engineering, and business. Work with engineers and product managers to deliver detailed and polished products. Promote interface guidelines and design patterns. Contribute to the UX/design community of practice through the adoption of new technologies and methodology.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Human Computer Interaction, UX Design, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or a related field, and 36 months of experience as a User Experience Designer, Web Designer, Visual Art Designer, or a related role. Requires three (3) years of experience in each of the following skills: 1. Facilitating multiple design workshops for detailed and dynamic functional designs; 2. Delivering products by utilizing UX and product design in assessing problem discovery, solution generation, concept creation, data visualization, wireframing, user‐testing, synthesis, iteration, prototyping, heuristic evaluation, competitive analysis, and customer journey mapping; 3. Presenting designs across the organization to a wide range of clients, stakeholders, peer designers, and partners; contributing to design systems and producing assets for development; and 4. Implementing fundamental design principles to create user‐friendly designs leveraging Typography, Iconography, Color theory, Composition, and Layout; 5. Experience in working within remote teams. Strong ability to collaborate effectively with geographically dispersed team members, maintaining high levels of communication and productivity. Familiarity with the intricacies of different time zones, cultures, and remote work dynamics; 6. Proficiency in Figma, Sketch, or Adobe Creative Suite; and, 7. Capability to design user-centered solutions for complex system on desktop, addressing diverse user needs and business scenarios.

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For San Francisco, CA Only the salary range for this position is USD$155,000.00 - USD$170,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including heath care, 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.

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.

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BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and also any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.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.