Vice President Card Connect Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Job Description
Shape the future of user experience with strategic design initiatives that blend business needs and user insights.
As a Vice President Experience Design in Small Business Credit Card you will play a pivotal role in shaping the user experience across our products and services. Leveraging your deep knowledge of design and research practices to lead strategically important initiatives and develop innovative solutions that align with business requirements and user needs. As a subject matter expert, collaborate with cross-functional teams, guide, and mentor junior designers, and foster a culture of inclusivity and accessibility. Your expertise in experience strategy and inclusive design will ensure that our offerings are not only visually appealing but also accessible and user-friendly, enhancing the overall customer experience.
You will lead early-stage discovery through delivery for both new and current experience for Small Business Card, connect dots across journeys and systems, and turn ambiguity into a shared point of view, aligned decisions, and an actionable path forward. This individual contributor role flexes across initiatives; success is measured by alignment, execution, and improvement to the customer experience, not a project.
Job responsibilities

• Develop and execute design/research strategies for complex projects and ensure alignment with business objectives and user needs across multiple product areas
• Diagram service flows and product features, design wireframes, and prototype interactions for key touchpoints as you lead end-to-end design initiatives within a specific domain.
• Drive the adoption of inclusive design practices and accessibility guidelines, mentor junior designers and foster a culture of diversity and inclusion
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate user experience design into the product development processes and ensure seamless and customer-centric solutions
• Analyze market trends, gather feedback from user research, and learn from data insights to inform design decisions and optimize user experiences across various platforms and channels
• Lead design strategy in collaboration with cross-functional partners to frame problems, clarify customer needs, and identify opportunity areas to create a cohesive end-to-end product experience across the Small Business Card and Business Banking ecosystem
• Create strategic decision-ready artifacts such as north-star journeys, experience maps, journey narratives, experience roadmaps, and prioritized CX gap inventories across Small Business Card, Business Banking, and Consumer Card that unify and guide cross-functional teams on what to solve and why
• Deliver across concurrent projects and efficiently scale execution of design direction, providing status and transparency to leadership
• Present your work to a diverse selection of business stakeholders and the broader product and technology organization-and use your expertise in design thinking to plan and facilitate ideation and alignment workshops with project stakeholders
• Establish operating cadence, manage dependencies/risks, knowing and how to balance discovery with delivery, and drive stakeholder alignment to decisions

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in user experience design or similar roles
• Demonstrated ability to create visual representations of user journeys, such as storyboarding, wireframes, and prototypes
• Demonstrated experience in inclusive design and accessibility guidelines, with the ability to incorporate diverse perspectives and abilities into design solutions
• Proven ability to develop experiences that meet or exceed the initial proposal of a product or experience, including the development of transformational innovation strategies and the creation of 'north star' representations to drive customer-centric decision-making
• Advanced technical literacy, including an advanced understanding of client-side technologies, APIs, microservices, and the components of the technology stack, as well as their impact on user experience
• Demonstrated strength as an accountable owner to independently drive ambiguity in early-stage discovery to define clear strategic definition, leading cross-functional alignment, and delivering executive-ready artifacts
• Demonstrated ability to connect work across multiple teams, platforms, lines of businesses and constraints to deliver cohesive experiences.
• Understanding and practice of the different phases of the user research and design process-including validating hypotheses with users, effectively communicating concepts, and creating low/high fidelity prototypes for both visual and conversational interfaces
• Ability to influence and align cross-functional partners in a regulated, highly matrixed environment, balancing speed, scope, and quality
• Portfolio demonstrating 0→1 discovery resulting in an approved roadmap, design strategy, interactive prototypes, experience roadmaps and design delivery files
• Experience using AI as part of your design workflow, such as create working prototypes to drive conversations forward

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Design leadership experience
• Experience in financial services, fintech, credit cards, or other regulated industries with frequent Risk/Legal/Compliance partnership
• Experience shaping experience-led metrics or success measures in partnership with Product and Data

About Us
Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
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About the Team
Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.
The Digital team is dedicated to creating innovative, industry-leading products and experiences that help customers access, share and control their financial data so they can make smart decisions with their money. Teams enable innovation while adhering to the firm's data sharing principles of security, customer control and convenience, and privacy.