UX Lead Analyst (VP)

Overview

In this VP Product Designer role at Citi, you will shape scalable design systems and user experiences for enterprise financial products. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into production-ready designs, while elevating design quality and system consistency at scale. You’ll drive ideation and handoff, leveraging AI tools to speed iteration, and mentor teams in craft and accessibility. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence the future of finance within a global breadth of projects.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working model (up to 2 days home)
• competitive base salary
• 27 days annual leave + bank holidays
• discretionary annual bonus
• private medical care & life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) C Pension plan

Responsibilities

• Design and refine product experiences quickly in an agile, high-output setting
• Build and maintain scalable design system components (tokens, variables, Boolean logic) for consistency across products
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and research to translate requirements into production-ready designs
• Own developer handoff with clean, annotated Figma files and precise specs for engineers
• Partner with QA to catch design drift and ensure shipped product matches design
• Contribute to and evolve the component library with clear naming, states, and documentation
• Leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and iteration
• Participate in design critiques to raise craft and usability
• Maintain meticulous attention to detail across spacing, typography, color, interaction states, and accessibility standards

Key requirements

• Significant commercial experience in Product Design, UX, or Design Systems
• Proven experience building and scaling enterprise design systems
• Strong expertise in Figma, including components, variants, tokens, and developer handoff
• Experience designing AI-powered products, copilots, or intelligent workflows
• Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG/ADA) and user-centered design principles
• Strong collaboration across Product, Engineering, Research, and business teams
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS and design-to-code workflows
• Experience with Storybook or similar component documentation tools
• Portfolio showing component-level design thinking with handoff artifacts or QA comparisons
• Experience in financial services or regulated industries preferred

• Detail-oriented and precise
• Fast, focused, with strong prioritization under pressure
• Systems thinker and component-first designer
• Figma advanced prototyping, components, and dev handoff
• Design systems architecture: variants, auto layout, nested components
• Tokens management: color, spacing, typography, semantic tokens

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