UX Product Designer - Aladdin Design, Director

Location: New York, New York Team: Technology Design Job Requisition #: R264979 Date posted: Jul. 08, 2026

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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.
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