Asset & Management, UI/UX Product Design, Vice President - New York

AWM – Designer – Vice President, Product Design

Wealth Management

The Wealth Management Design team is responsible for delivering tools and products empowering clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. We are looking for designers who can dive into complex problems to deliver intuitive and impactful products, while focusing on cultivating a culture of collaboration, exploration, and growth.

Role Overview – Onboarding / Account Opening

The Product Design Vice President will lead design for the Onboarding / Account Opening experience, shaping the digital journeys that help Wealth clients, advisors, and service teams open accounts with clarity, confidence, and efficiency.

This role supports the end-to-end design process for account opening workflows, from discovery and journey mapping through wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready designs. The VP will partner closely with product, engineering, operations, legal, and compliance teams to simplify complex financial, regulatory, and operational requirements into intuitive experiences that reduce friction, improve completion rates, and meet the high standards expected across Wealth Management.

Key Responsibilities

Design Leadership & Execution (Onboarding / Account Opening). Lead the end-to-end design strategy and execution for onboarding and account opening experiences, guiding teams in creating user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs that drive conversion, reduce friction, and meet regulatory requirements.

Prototyping & Experience Visualization. Oversee the development of interactive prototypes to communicate complex onboarding journeys, enabling stakeholder alignment, usability validation, and executive decision-making.

Cross-Functional Leadership. Partner closely with product, engineering, legal, compliance, and operations teams to align on requirements, constraints, and trade-offs. Ensure seamless implementation of design solutions within highly regulated environments.

Team Leadership & Quality Oversight. Manage and mentor designers, fostering a high-performing team focused on craft excellence. Provide guidance and critique to ensure strong typography, layout, accessibility, and overall design quality across all deliverables.

Simplification of Complex Workflows. Drive the translation of complex financial, regulatory, and operational requirements into intuitive, client-friendly experiences. Advocate for clarity, transparency, and ease of use throughout the onboarding journey.

Qualifications & Skills

Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, or a related field; advanced degree a plus.

Experience designing complex enterprise applications, with an interest in financial services or consumer-facing digital products

8+ years of experience in product design or related disciplines, with demonstrated success leading teams and delivering complex, large-scale digital products.

Expert-level proficiency across the full human-centered design lifecycle, including research, experience strategy, journey mapping, information architecture, UX/UI design, usability testing, and accessibility.

Proven portfolio of shipped products demonstrating design leadership, strategic impact, and measurable business and user outcomes.

Strong executive presence with an entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable operating in complex, fast-paced, and commercially driven environments.

Advanced expertise with design tools (e.g., Figma) and a track record of shaping, scaling, and governing design system

Extensive experience working in agile environments and collaborating closely with product management and engineering teams at scale.

Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across senior leadership and cross-functional partners.

Experience hiring, managing, and developing high-performing design teams, including coaching, mentorship, and performance management.

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.

Opportunity Overview

CORPORATE TITLEVice President

OFFICE LOCATION(S)New York

JOB FUNCTIONUI/UX Design

DIVISIONAsset & Wealth Management

SALARY RANGEUSD 115,000 - 270,000