What Makes Us, Us
Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!
At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people‑centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.
Our global Product Design team operates as a centralized center of excellence with distributed impact. We maintain unified standards and processes globally while embedding designers directly within product teams for deep collaboration and contextual expertise. This approach lets us maintain consistency across SimCorp's product ecosystem while scaling expertise efficiently across markets and time zones.
We foster an environment where curiosity meets accountability. Every designer is self‑directed and results‑oriented while actively advancing design maturity across SimCorp. Our success is measured in transformed user workflows, reduced time‑to‑insight, improved compliance outcomes, and strengthened client relationships.
Why This Role Is Important To Us
Product Design transforms complex financial workflows into intuitive solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. We bridge sophisticated investment technology with the people who depend on it—portfolio managers, compliance officers, and analysts operating in high‑stakes environments where precision and speed matter.
What You Will Be Responsible For
Design Leadership
- Own user experience strategy for a major product area
- Lead design for complex features and user workflows
- Establish design quality standards and review processes
- Drive design system adoption within product area
- Typically focus on one or a few products or features
- Lead one or several other designers on specific projects to oversee day‑to‑day design work and ensure alignment with product goals
Team/Project Leadership
- Provide design direction and mentorship to designers
- Facilitate design critiques and collaborative design sessions
- Support experience designers' professional development
- Coordinate design work across multiple feature teams
- Strong tactical and operational influence within specific product team(s) and project(s)
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Collaborate closely with product managers to create and iterate on interaction solutions that solve complex workflows
- Ensure those solutions are tested and validated with end users
- Collaborate with Engineering leads on implementation planning
- Present design recommendations to senior stakeholders
What We Value
- Navigate between high‑level strategy and detailed execution
- Translate complex financial concepts into clear, actionable interfaces
- Facilitate cross‑functional collaboration and drive stakeholder consensus
- Take ownership of projects while contributing to our collective design practice
- Leverage the latest in AI tools to prototype interactive concepts and accelerate to user validation as quickly as possible
Requirements
- 5–8 years of design experience with leadership capabilities
- Strong portfolio demonstrating complex workflow solutions
- Experience mentoring junior and mid‑level designers
- Experience getting the most from AI tools in crafting creative solutions
- Deep understanding of user research and usability testing
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
Benefits
- Global hybrid work policy – You can work two days a week from the office and remotely on other days.
- Growth and innovation – Every sixth sprint is dedicated to planning and innovation, giving regular opportunities to explore and learn new skills or improve existing ones.
- Self‑direction – High degree of self‑organization; each team and developer has significant freedom to plan, organize, and design their work.
- Inclusive and diverse company culture
- Pension and health benefits plus bonus
- Work‑life balance – We believe in an equilibrium between professional responsibilities and personal life, helping you become the best version of yourself both at work and outside it.
- Empowerment – All voices are valued and must be heard. You will be involved in shaping our work processes.
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