Asset & Wealth Management - UX Designer - Associate - London

Business unit overview

Goldman Sachs Asset Management (AM) is one of the world’s leading investment managers, overseeing $3 trillion in assets. The Asset Management UX team is at the forefront of a fundamental shift: we are evolving from a traditional design function into a design + build system . In this model, designers do not just create interfaces; they define the infrastructure, logic, and code-aware patterns that power a multi-billion-dollar platform landscape.

Our Global UX team supports a complex ecosystem of internal tools and client-facing platforms used globally across investment research, portfolio operations, and digital client experiences. At the center of this transformation is our enterprise design system, which we are modernising to be AI-first and engineering-aligned.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a highly motivated, versatile Product Designer specialised in design systems to help us scale and future-proof our enterprise infrastructure. This is not a maintenance role. You will own and evolve a system that balances global consistency with local product flexibility across one of the most complex financial ecosystems in the world.

We are seeking an AI-native designer -a creative professional who treats Artificial Intelligence as a foundational tool rather than an add-on. You will integrate AI into the core of your design process to accelerate workflows, automate documentation, and explore generative UI patterns.

What you'll do

• Own and Evolve a Large-Scale Design System: Drive the structure, governance, and scalability of our system across diverse use cases, ensuring it meets the needs of both internal power users and global clients.
• Push Visual Quality to a High Bar: Define and refine visual language across typography, color, and spacing. You will ensure the system produces polished, premium outputs that reflect the Goldman Sachs brand.
• Bridge Design and Engineering: Work as a "builder-thinker," collaborating closely with front-end engineers to align design tokens and components with production code.
• Integrate AI into the Design Workflow: Identify and implement AI tools to accelerate design-to-build workflows, experimenting with AI-assisted generation, documentation, and prototyping.
• Enable Teams at Scale: Create clear documentation and contribution models that allow product teams to adopt and extend the system autonomously.
• Define the Future State: Bring strong opinions on the future of design systems, including tokens, multi-platform automation, and AI-driven UI.

What we're looking for (basic qualification)

• 5+ Years of Industry Experience: Proven expertise in product or visual design with a heavy focus on large-scale design systems.
• System Architecture Mastery: Deep understanding of tokens, theming, component logic, and how design translates into code frameworks (e.g., React).
• Figma Expertise: Advanced proficiency in Figma is a must , including the expert use of variables, auto-layout, and library management to build and maintain scalable, high-fidelity design systems.
• AI-Native Mindset: Demonstrated experience integrating modern AI tools (e.g., generative UI, automated documentation, design-to-code) into your daily workflow.
• Strong Visual Craft: A portfolio that demonstrates a sharp eye for detail, modern UI aesthetics, and the ability to handle high-density data environments.
• Design-to-Build Fluency: Comfort working close to the code and a good understanding of engineering constraints and implementation patterns.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in financial services or other highly complex, regulated domains.
• Exposure to multi-brand or multi-platform systems (Web, iOS, Android).
• Experience transforming design workflows through new tooling or automation.
• Active contributions to the broader design system or open-source communities.

What makes this role different

• Scale & Complexity - few design systems operate at this level of breadth, supporting tools that move markets.
• Real Impact - your work directly shapes the tools used by our investment professionals and global institutional clients.
• Transformation Focus - we are actively redefining the "designer" role into a "builder" role, moving away from static screens toward living systems.
• AI-First Direction - you will be a pioneer in defining how AI changes the design practice within a premier global enterprise.

How we evaluate candidates

We look beyond polished portfolios. We value:
Systems Thinking over Screens - your ability to solve for the ecosystem, not just the individual page. Complexity Management - how you handle trade-offs between consistency and product-specific needs. Engineering Influence - your ability to speak the language of developers and influence technical implementation. Future Vision - your perspective on how AI and automation will fundamentally change the design-to-build pipeline.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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