Senior User Experience Designer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior User Experience Designer (individual contributor)

• Focus: High-impact trading experiences across Schwab.com and iOS/Android apps

• Work mode: Hybrid with an expectation to work on-site in the specified location(s)

Description

Lead product design from early discovery through launch and iteration for trading experiences across responsive web and native mobile. You will simplify complex, data-intensive financial workflows while ensuring cohesive interaction design, strong visual clarity, and accessibility. Collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams and use storytelling and AI-augmented workflows to deliver inclusive, high-quality experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead product design from discovery through launch and iteration

• Design cohesive interactions for responsive web and native mobile, with attention to layout, typography, color, motion, and user interaction

• Simplify data-intensive trading workflows without losing precision

• Use and evolve the design system to create consistent, scalable patterns and components

• Partner with product managers, software developers, researchers, content strategists, accessibility specialists, and business partners in an Agile environment

• Facilitate problem framing and ideation; communicate a clear design point of view using rationale and storytelling

• Lead cross-disciplinary UX efforts, identify risks early, and help teams navigate ambiguity

• Champion accessible, inclusive, high-quality experiences at every stage

• Get to know client motivations and the moments where complexity gets in the way

• Balance progress with craft through iteration

• Build trust by setting clear expectations, inviting feedback, and adapting with new information

• Leverage AI tools to augment and accelerate the UX process

Requirements

• 6+ years of product design experience with digital products, supported by an online portfolio showing process and design thinking

• 1+ year experience with touch-based mobile interfaces

• Experience designing data-intensive applications; background in financial services and ideally brokerage platform knowledge

• Deep knowledge of user-centered design: research, flows, wireframes, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and content specifications

• Experience running design sessions with cross-functional teams

• Experience designing accessible solutions and participating in accessibility testing

• Experience collaborating in multidisciplinary Agile teams and facilitating cross-functional design sessions

• Fluency with Figma and modern design systems

• Experience integrating AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Figma Make, MCPs, Vercel, or similar) into the design process

• Currently authorized to work in the United States full-time without employer sponsorship

Benefits

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan

• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service (eligible positions)

• Paid parental leave and family building benefits

• Tuition reimbursement

• Health, dental, and vision insurance