VP, Product Design (Los Angeles)

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We are a specialized technology staffing agency supporting professional and financial services companies. Why do we stand out in technology staffing? We listen and act as advisors for our candidates on how they can best add value, find interesting projects, and pave a path for career advancement. We advocate for best pay, diversity in tech, and best job-fit for every candidate we place.

Our client, an investment firm, is seeking a VP of Product Design to join their team in Los Angeles, CA!

Responsibilities :

• Build and lead the Product Design function covering UX, UI, research, and design systems.
• Partner with Product Engineering, Product Management, and business stakeholders to define the end-to-end experience across firms digital ecosystem.
• Introduce and institutionalize the design thinking framework as the foundation for product discovery and delivery.
• Establish firms design system and visual identity, ensuring coherence across products, especially investment lifecycle tools.
• Serve as a thought partner to senior leadershiphelping connect user experience, business strategy, and data intelligence.
• Champion deep user research and contextual inquiry to uncover investor, client, and operational needs.
• Translate insights into clear user journeys, problem statements, and measurable experience goals.
• Facilitate creative exploration sessions that bring together product, data, and engineering to co-create solutions.
• Oversee rapid prototyping to visualize and test concepts before buildbalancing fidelity with speed.
• Implement structured usability testing and continuous feedback loops to refine the experience post-launch.
• Build rituals and toolkits that embed these phases into product development cadences (e.g., design sprints, hypothesis-driven roadmaps, and UX metrics).
• Operationalize design delivery through scalable processesuser research, prototyping, and design reviews.
• Partner with engineers to ensure design fidelity and high-quality implementation.
• Oversee design system implementation using tools like Figma, Storybook, and Tailwind, aligned with firms engineering standards.

Qualifications :

Salary : $200,000 - $225,000