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Digital Enablement Leader
Atlantic Partners Corporation
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
Manager or above
2 months ago
- AI
- UI/UX
- Design Systems
- Agile
- Devops
- Risk Management
2 months ago
Job Description Summary
The company is undertaking the continued modernization of its Capital Markets and Wealth Engineering portfolio to deliver resilient, scalable, secure, intuitive, and AI-enabled digital platforms for capital markets and wealth ecosystems. The Senior UI/UX Platform Leader will serve as a senior technology and design executive accountable for defining and executing the platform experience strategy, ensuring alignment across user experience, engineering priorities, product outcomes, client commitments, regulatory expectations, and enterprise modernization goals.
This role requires a commercially astute and technically accomplished leader with deep experience in UI/UX strategy, digital platform modernization, design systems, product experience, engineering execution, and enterprise transformation. The leader will strengthen experience-led delivery practices, develop design and engineering leadership capacity, improve usability, accessibility, delivery predictability, and client adoption, and communicate the target-state platform experience in a manner that establishes confidence among global clients, business leaders, product partners, and executive stakeholders.
As part of the Capital Markets and Wealth Engineering organization, this leader will partner closely with product, design, operations, architecture, commercial, and enterprise technology teams to define the target-state digital experience, design system, platform architecture, and modernization roadmap. The role will balance client-centered innovation with disciplined execution to deliver improved user outcomes, platform consistency, operational efficiency, resiliency, and sustained technology differentiation.
Experience across Capital Markets and Wealth digital platforms is preferred, including workflow-driven user experiences across trade lifecycle, clearing, settlement, custody, asset servicing, books and records, reconciliations, regulatory reporting, client onboarding, advisor servicing, portfolio management, reporting, billing, compliance, data integration, accessibility, design systems, and AI-enabled engagement.
Responsibilities
Experience Strategy & Team Leadership
Establish a clear UI/UX and digital platform strategy that aligns user experience, product priorities, engineering execution, client outcomes, accessibility standards, and enterprise roadmaps.
Lead enterprise-scale experience transformation by translating user needs, workflow complexity, and business priorities into structured design, platform, and delivery plans.
Develop, coach, and retain high-performing product design, UX, engineering, and platform teams that reinforce accountability, collaboration, quality, accessibility, and client focus.
UI/UX Platform Delivery
Provide executive oversight for the design, development, testing, and deployment of intuitive, accessible, and scalable user experiences across capital markets and wealth workflows.
Advance reusable design systems, component libraries, interaction patterns, workflow frameworks, and front-end engineering practices that improve consistency, speed, and quality.
Drive predictable delivery through clear product experience commitments, usability outcomes, accessibility requirements, quality standards, regulatory awareness, and financial discipline.
Governance & Quality
Advance design governance, SDLC, Agile, DevOps, accessibility, usability validation, and operational readiness practices across platform teams.
Define and institutionalize metrics that make user adoption, usability, accessibility, quality, platform performance, resiliency, delivery predictability, and client satisfaction visible and actionable.
Ensure compliance with organizational policies, regulatory obligations, enterprise security frameworks, data protection standards, accessibility expectations, and operational risk controls.
Stakeholder Management
Serve as a senior client-facing digital platform leader, articulating the target-state experience strategy, design roadmap, migration path, platform readiness, and business value with clarity, credibility, and executive presence.
Engage global clients, business units, product partners, commercial teams, operations stakeholders, and end users to establish alignment, support adoption, and connect platform experiences to measurable outcomes.
Translate complex technology and workflow concepts into intuitive experience narratives that support decision-making, strengthen global client confidence, and reinforce enterprise alignment.
Provide structured and transparent communication regarding progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, adoption, usability insights, and strategic partner relationships across the platform ecosystem.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
Lead modernization of digital platform experiences, including design systems, workflow automation, front-end architecture, APIs, data services, integration capabilities, and AI-enabled user assistance.
Promote innovation, continuous learning, human-centered design, disciplined experimentation, and measurable improvement across platform teams, practices, and operating models.
Prioritize responsible AI, automation, tooling, design reuse, and component standardization opportunities that improve productivity, usability, resiliency, efficiency, regulatory readiness, and client outcomes.
Convert market trends, client needs, end-user insights, regulatory expectations, and emerging technologies into practical experience improvements that strengthen platform differentiation.
Platform & Front-End Technical Leadership
Provide architectural leadership across digital experience platforms spanning front-end frameworks, component architecture, APIs, cloud-native services, event-driven capabilities, data, and integration patterns.
Establish reusable design and engineering assets, prototypes, POCs, MVPs, shared services, and AI-ready capabilities that accelerate delivery, reduce duplication, and increase enterprise leverage.
Enhance platform experiences across trade lifecycle management, settlement exception handling, position and balance management, account servicing, client reporting, operational controls, and advisor workflows.
Embed non-functional and experience requirements into solution design to ensure usability, accessibility, resiliency, scalability, performance, security, observability, operational readiness, and regulatory confidence.
Qualifications
Education
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Experience
15+ years of software engineering, digital product, UI/UX, or platform experience, preferably within fintech, capital markets, wealth, or regulated financial services environments.
10+ years of experience managing product design, UX, front-end engineering, platform engineering, leadership pipelines, budgets, vendor relationships, and enterprise delivery commitments.
Demonstrated record of leading large-scale digital platforms, design systems, modernization programs, and AI-enabled user experiences that deliver measurable business impact.
Experience with capital markets and wealth workflows, including trade lifecycle, clearing, settlement, custody, client onboarding, advisor servicing, reporting, and workflow-driven financial technology platforms.
Knowledge of modern UI/UX practices, accessibility standards, design systems, front-end architecture, workflow automation, APIs, data integration, and responsible AI-enabled engagement.
Skills & Competencies
Enterprise leadership capability across product design, UX, engineering, organizational development, leadership pipeline development, and talent-building disciplines.
Strategic judgment with the ability to lead through complexity, simplify workflow experiences, mobilize teams, and convert platform transformation into measurable outcomes.
Executive communication capability with the ability to align technology, product, design, commercial, operations, global clients, and senior stakeholders around a compelling digital platform vision.
Deep understanding of UI/UX, human-centered design, accessibility, modern front-end engineering, APIs, integration, DevOps, data, responsible AI, and financial workflow platform capabilities.
Commercial and client orientation, with the ability to connect digital experience investment, modernization, and AI-enabled innovation to measurable business value and client confidence.
Strong governance mindset, driving accountability, transparency, usability, accessibility, risk management, responsible AI, regulatory awareness, and disciplined execution.
Success Measures
Improved user adoption, usability, accessibility, delivery predictability, quality outcomes, and transparency across digital platforms.
Measurable progress against design system adoption, experience modernization, resiliency, automation, and responsible AI adoption objectives.
Increased client confidence through clearer experience roadmap communication, platform readiness, workflow simplification, and outcome-focused engagement.
Stronger design and engineering leadership depth, platform consistency, operational resilience, and risk management discipline.
Digital Enablement Leader · Atlantic Partners Corporation