UX Designer

Location: Malvern, PA (Hybrid – Vanguard typically expects onsite presence)
Rate: $45 – $50/hr
Experience Required: 6–8+ years UX/Product Design experience (Enterprise or Financial domain strongly preferred)

🔎 What The Client Actually Needs (Market Reality)

Vanguard typically hires UX Designers who:

• Design enterprise investment and financial platforms

• Work closely with product owners, engineers, and research teams

• Follow design systems and accessibility standards

• Focus heavily on user research + usability testing

• Can handle complex data-driven applications

This role is NOT purely UI or graphic design.
Client wants end-to-end UX thinkers.

✅ Core Responsibilities

• Design user-centered experiences for Vanguard digital platforms.

• Create wireframes, prototypes, and interaction designs.

• Conduct user research, usability testing, and persona creation.

• Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams.

• Translate complex financial workflows into intuitive experiences.

• Maintain and contribute to enterprise design systems.

• Ensure compliance with accessibility (WCAG) standards.

• Support Agile product development cycles.

✅ Mandatory Technical Skills (What TCS + Vanguard Screen For)

UX Design & Research

• User Research & Usability Testing

• Wireframing & Prototyping

• Interaction Design

• Information Architecture

• User Journey Mapping

• Persona Development

Design Tools

• Figma (Strongly Preferred – Vanguard heavily uses it)

• Sketch / Adobe XD (Secondary)

• InVision / Axure (Nice to have)

Collaboration & Workflow

• Agile / Scrum environment

• Cross-functional collaboration

• Stakeholder presentations

Accessibility & Standards

• WCAG accessibility compliance

• Design system usage

⭐ Preferred / Nice-To-Have Skills

• Financial Services / Banking / Investment domain

• Experience designing data-heavy dashboards

• Experience working with enterprise SaaS or internal platforms

• Exposure to front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, basic React understanding)

🎯 Experience Breakdown (Realistic Expectation)

🧠 Soft Skills Vanguard Values

• Strong storytelling and design rationale presentation

• Ability to simplify complex financial workflows

• Stakeholder communication

• Analytical mindset