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New York Life Insurance Company · 1 day ago

Senior Associate, Senior Product Designer

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$105K/yr - $125K/yr

5+ years exp

New York Life Insurance Company is evolving into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization while maintaining its core values of purpose and integrity. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer to lead design concepting, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to the end-to-end design of a diverse portfolio of digital products.

FinanceFinancial ServicesInsurance

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead early-stage design concepting by turning ambiguous problem spaces into clear, testable concepts and experience flows grounded in user and business needs

Work closely with design leadership to ensure consistent application of standards and alignment with evolving strategic direction

Translate validated concepts into detailed, production-ready design specifications, including component-level documentation, edge cases, and responsive behaviors

Partner closely with engineering during handoff and implementation, providing clear design artifacts, answering questions, and reviewing builds to ensure high-quality execution

Contribute to the end-to-end design of a portfolio of digital products, ensuring each experience is usable, engaging, and aligned to the broader product strategy

Prioritize design efforts across multiple workstreams, balancing long-term vision work with near-term delivery needs in partnership with Product and Engineering

Perform end-to-end design research and discovery activities to inform experience strategy, content, and UX decisions across both our financial education platform and NYL.com

Drive consistency and quality across the portfolio by leveraging and evolving shared design systems, patterns, and standards

Understand the impact of design across products, using insights to iterate and inform experience improvements

Partner with cross functional team for delivery: Collaborate with design leadership, product owners, engineering, and implementation teams, driving alignment and decision-making across a large-scale, multi-year implementation and in-year MVP delivery

Contribute to co-creation and workshops: Participate in working sessions and to define and ideate, align stakeholders, and enable confident decisions

Partner with design leadership: Collaborate closely with design, product, and business leadership across NYL to shape project direction, maintain alignment with strategic objectives, and advocate for a cohesive, experience-led vision across teams

Qualification

Human-centered design principlesDigital product designPrototyping toolsScaled Agile (SAFe) experienceDesign systemsInteraction designVisual designCollaborationCommunicationProblem-solving

Required

Portfolio - Please include a portfolio or case studies as a document or link with your resume when applying, including any passwords. Please DO NOT use Drop box or other file sharing solution; we cannot access it

Expert understanding of human-centered design principles, interaction design, visual design, and user experience

A bachelor's in a relevant field such as Design, Interaction Design, Communication Design or a related discipline. Equivalent practical experience will also be considered

At least 5 years in digital product design, including a track record of shipping high quality digital designs for consumers and a range of digital product types (e.g., responsive web, apps, portals, etc.)

Experience with designing for multiple projects in a fast-paced, very deadline-driven environment

Experience leveraging design systems and comfort working with content-heavy experiences and structured systems

A successful track record of shipping digital experience designs in a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment across a range of front-ends and platforms (e.g., content management systems, low/no-code platforms, framework-based front ends, native apps)

Familiarity with technical architecture concepts including service-oriented architecture and micro-services, data models, and front-end programming (e.g., HTML, CSS)

Mastery of design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe Creative Suite) and digital whiteboard/facilitation tools (e.g., Figjam, Miro)

Benefits

Leave programs

Adoption assistance

Student loan repayment programs

Company

New York Life Insurance Company

For over 180 years, we’ve helped turn your biggest dreams into milestones that last a lifetime.

Founded in 1845

New York, New York, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.newyorklife.com/

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