UI/UX Designer

Let’s be #BrilliantTogether

Help shape the future of our digital experience.

Are you passionate about creating intuitive, user-centered designs that drive impact? Join ISS Market Intelligence as a UI/UX Designer and help lead our transformation to deliver modern, persona-based experiences to our clients. In this pivotal role, you’ll work within our product organization and collaborate closely with teams across product, data, technology, and customer experience to craft solutions that delight users and move the business forward.

What You’ll Do

• Use your expertise in user journey mapping and experience design to visualize interactions, uncover pain points, identify opportunities, and develop thoughtful solutions that elevate the user experience.

• Create personas, wireframes, and prototypes to bring ideas to life—iterating based on research, stakeholder input, and usability testing.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including product managers, engineers, and business partners—to understand user needs, define goals, and translate them into clear design strategies.

• Develop and maintain design systems, pattern libraries, and guidelines that ensure consistency and reflect the ISS STOXX brand and design principles.

• Conduct user research, usability testing, and heuristic evaluations to validate ideas and continuously refine our platforms.

• Stay current with design trends, tools, and emerging technologies—bringing fresh thinking and innovative solutions to the team.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience as a UX/Service Designer in the financial services or fintech space, with a strong portfolio showcasing successful enterprise-level projects.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a structured approach to translating user needs into elegant, impactful designs.

• Proficiency in user journey mapping, service design thinking, and leading ideation or design workshops.

• In-depth understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices.

• Experience using research and data to inform and validate design decisions.

• Visual design skills with a strong understanding of UX fundamentals.

• Advanced proficiency in design tools such as Figma, FigJam, Miro, Adobe XD, or similar.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to clearly explain concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.

• A collaborative mindset with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach.

• Intellectual curiosity, creativity, and a drive to continuously learn and grow.

• Proven ability to build strong relationships and influence across teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, UX Design, Industrial Design, Product Design, or related field

• 5+ years of relevant experience

• Proficiency in Figma is a must

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What you can expect from us

Our people are the moving force behind ISS STOXX. We are dedicated to hiring the best, most talented people in our industry and empowering them with the resources and support to enhance their career, health, financial and personal well-being. 

We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. We are invested in our people and are working every day to ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.

Let’s empower, collaborate, and inspire one another. 

Let’s be #BrilliantTogether.

About ISS STOXX

ISS STOXX GmbH is a leading provider of research and technology solutions for the financial market. Established in 1985, we offer top-notch benchmark and custom indices globally, helping clients identify investment opportunities and manage portfolio risks. Our services cover corporate governance, sustainability, cyber risk, and fund intelligence. Majority-owned by Deutsche Börse Group, ISS STOXX has over 3,400 professionals in 33 locations worldwide, serving around 6,400 clients, including institutional investors and companies focused on ESG, cyber, and governance risk. Clients trust our expertise to make informed decisions for their stakeholders' benefit. 

ISS Market Intelligence (ISS MI) is a leading provider of data, insights, and market engagement solutions to the global financial services industry. ISS MI empowers asset and wealth management firms, insurance companies, distributors, service providers, and technology firms to assess their target markets, identify and analyze the best opportunities within those markets, and execute on comprehensive go-to-market initiatives to grow their business. Clients benefit from our increasingly connected global platform that leverages a combination of proprietary data, powerful analytics, timely and relevant insights, in-depth research, as well as an extensive suite of industry-leading media brands that deliver unmatched market connectivity through news and editorial content, events, training, ratings, and awards. 

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We are proud to offer the following featured benefits 

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• 401(k) with a company match up to 9%, including a Safe Harbor contribution
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and commuter benefit programs
• Generous paid time off
• Volunteer Day
• Paid parental leave
• Hybrid working options

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, ethnicity, creed, religion, sex, age, height, weight, citizenship status, national origin, social origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, pregnancy status, marital status, familial status, mental or physical disability, veteran status, military service or status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as “protected status”).  All activities including, but not limited to, recruiting and hiring, recruitment advertising, promotions, performance appraisals, training, job assignments, compensation, demotions, transfers, terminations (including layoffs), benefits, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, are and will be administered on a non-discriminatory basis, consistent with all applicable federal, state, and local requirements.  For more information, please view https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/posters.

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