About Vanguard
Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's leading investment management companies. The firm offers investments, advice, and retirement services to tens of millions of individual investors around the globe—directly, through workplace plans, and through financial intermediaries.
Vanguard’s India Office
Vanguard’s office in India is a significant milestone in our global expansion. We are committed to establishing an enduring technology center in Hyderabad, Telangana and are excited to be adding talent who will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and cloud-based technologies that drive our business outcomes and deliver a world-class experience for our clients.
Role Summary
This role designs intuitive and impactful user experiences and develops strategies that align user needs with business goals. Leads broader initiatives that span journeys or families. Additionally, the role focuses on driving user-centric innovation while ensuring alignment with overall product and organizational strategy.
Responsibilities
1. Designs complex user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and UI elements to deliver a seamless user experience across mobile and web platforms, while utilizing established brand standards.
2. Develops user experience interface architecture strategies to support and improve the user interface. Leads cross-family initiatives to meet business and marketing goals.
3. Partners with cross-departmental teams and business leaders to prioritize UX efforts that align with business objectives. Helps translate user needs and feedback into actionable product features. Coordinates and delivers design, prototype, and documentation to improve the user experience.
4. Collaborates with research and data analytics teams to incorporate quantitative and qualitative data into the design process, ensuring decisions are informed by user insights. Leverage experimentation to validate hypothesis across the feasibility, desirability, and viability spectrum.
5. Analyzes market trends, competitive analysis, OKRs, and user behavior to develop UX strategies that inform design decisions and product direction.
6. Advocates for user-centered design solutions that evolve with changing business goals and user needs, while keeping a close eye on emerging technologies and design trends.
7. Ensures our UX practices align with industry standards and yield minimum waste. Trains and mentors junior staff in best practices of user experience design. Provides guidance, training, and motivation.
8. Develops and leverages a professional network across the enterprise to foster collaboration within the department to support department-wide initiatives, and to advocate for UX having a voice in the decision-making and planning process
9. Drives design consistency by contributing to and maintaining design systems and reusable components.
10. Facilitates design reviews, workshops, and stakeholder alignment sessions to ensure clarity and execution excellence.
11. Collaborates closely with engineering teams to ensure feasibility and smooth implementation of design solutions.
12. Continuously evaluates and improves design processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance team productivity and output quality.
13. Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Qualification & Skills
- Minimum 8 years of industry/field experience in user experience design. Product design experience preferred.
- Undergraduate degree such as B.E./B.Tech, B.Des, B.Sc (Design/Computer Science/IT) or equivalent combination of training and experience in a creative or technical field.
- Preferred: Postgraduate degree such as M.Tech, M.Des, MBA (Design/Product Management), or equivalent.
- Strong proficiency in UX/UI design tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, or similar.
- 8+ years of experience in UX Design, Product Design, or related fields.Strong expertise in Product Design, UX Strategy, User Research, Design Thinking, and Product Discovery.
- Advanced proficiency in Figma, wireframing, prototyping, and modern design tools.
- Experience working within Agile teams and leveraging Jira for product delivery.
- Strong understanding of front-end technologies, APIs, and AI-assisted design tools.
- Ability to balance user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a creative or technical discipline.
- Financial Services, Wealth Management, or FinTech experience.
- Experience with Design Systems, Data Visualization, and dashboard experiences.
- Familiarity with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
- Exposure to AI-enabled design tools such as Figma Make and Claude-to-Figma workflows.
Location
This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard’s India office. Only qualified external applicants will be considered.
Our mission
Vanguard adheres to a simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.
Our commitment to you
Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success—at work and in life—with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life. Our Total Rewards programs provide you and your loved ones with wellness support for key areas in your life:
Financial wellness
We're committed to enabling your financial success and provide competitive offers and programs.
Physical wellness
We're committed to providing benefits that support your physical health and wellness.
Personal wellness
We're committed to providing resources that help support the full scope of your life.
How we work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for most of our employees (crew members), designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Skills Required
- 8+ years industry experience in user experience design
- Product design experience
- Undergraduate degree (B.E./B.Tech, B.Des, B.Sc in Design/Computer Science/IT) or equivalent
- Postgraduate degree (M.Tech, M.Des, MBA in Design/Product Management) or equivalent
- Strong proficiency in UX/UI design tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch
- Advanced proficiency in wireframing and prototyping
- Experience working within Agile teams and leveraging Jira for product delivery
- Strong understanding of front-end technologies and APIs
- Understanding of AI-assisted design tools
- Exposure to AI-enabled design tools such as Figma Make and Claude-to-Figma workflows
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Financial Services, Wealth Management, or FinTech experience
- Experience with Design Systems, Data Visualization, and dashboard experiences
- Familiarity with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanguard and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanguard.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
Vanguard Insights
What We Do
We are a community of 30 million who think – and feel – differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping our investors achieve their goals is our sole reason for existence. With no other parties to answer to and therefore no conflicting loyalties, we make every decision—like keeping investing costs as low as possible—with only your needs in mind. Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of high-quality low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the size, stability, and experience Vanguard offers. As of April 30, 2019, we managed more than $5.6 trillion in global assets. In addition, we have 189 funds in the United States and 225 funds in global markets. For Commenting Guidelines & Important information, visit here: http://vanguard.com/linkedin Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
