We are seeking a Senior UX Designer to support MSCI’s Private Assets business, designing intuitive, scalable experiences across a suite of investment analytics, data, and technology solutions used by institutional investors. MSCI Private Assets delivers industry-leading tools that help clients analyze performance, manage risk, monitor exposures, model cashflows, and make informed investment and portfolio allocation decisions across private and public markets.

In this role, you will lead end-to-end product design while operating at a platform and portfolio level, driving consistency, usability, and design quality across Private Assets solutions. You will help shape overall experience strategy, shared interaction patterns, and usability standards, working closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and Business stakeholders to translate complex financial, analytical, and technical requirements into clear, cohesive user experiences. The role also plays a key part in shaping AI-enabled product experiences and leveraging AI tools to improve the speed, quality, and effectiveness of the product design lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end product design across MSCI Private Assets solutions, from discovery and ideation through delivery, iteration, and continuous improvement.
• Drive UX consistency and design system standards across products, ensuring scalable interaction patterns and a cohesive user experience.
• Design intuitive and transparent user experiences for AI-powered features, including analytics, insights, and decision-support workflows.
• Leverage AI-assisted design tools to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and execution across the design lifecycle.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Program, and Research teams to define requirements, establish priorities, and translate complex financial and technical concepts into elegant, user-centered solutions.
• Deliver high-quality design artifacts including user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, prototypes, dashboards, and data visualizations.
• Manage multiple initiatives in parallel, working proactively and decisively to meet fast-moving timelines.
• Champion user-centered design, accessibility, and usability best practices while balancing business, technical, and regulatory considerations.
• Act as a senior design leader within the Private Assets UX team, bringing creativity, strong judgment, and assertiveness to cross-functional collaboration and decision-making.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience applying user-centered design methodologies to complex, data-rich, or enterprise software products.
• Demonstrated ability to lead end-to-end product design and influence outcomes at a platform or portfolio level.
• Proficiency in Figma, including component libraries and design systems; experience with Figma Make and other AI-enabled design tools is strongly preferred.
• Experience designing or supporting AI-driven product features and workflows is highly desirable.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating UX thinking, visual design excellence, problem-solving skills, and impact on shipped products.
• Experience working in an Agile product development environment.
• Financial services, investment management, analytics, or adjacent domain knowledge is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university is preferred.
• Creative, proactive, and assertive mindset with the ability to influence, move quickly, and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.

What we offer you

• Salary range: $130,000 - $186,000 / year plus eligible for annual bonus

• Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.

• Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.

• A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.

• A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.

• Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, AI Learning Center , LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.

• Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.

• We actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.

At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our vision – to power better decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.

MSCI strengthens global markets by connecting participants across the financial ecosystem with a common language. Our research-based data, analytics and indexes, supported by advanced technology, set standards for global investors and help our clients understand risks and opportunities so they can make better decisions and unlock innovation. We serve asset managers and owners, private-market sponsors and investors, hedge funds, wealth managers, banks, insurers and corporates.

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