Posted on: April 09, 2026
WHAT MAKES US, US
Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!
At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.
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WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT TO US
Product Design transforms complex financial workflows into intuitive solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. We bridge sophisticated investment technology with the people who depend on it—portfolio managers, compliance officers, and analysts operating in high-stakes environments where precision and speed matter.
Our global Product Design team operates as a centralized center of excellence with distributed impact. We maintain unified standards and processes globally while embedding designers directly within product teams for deep collaboration and contextual expertise. This approach lets us maintain consistency across SimCorp's product ecosystem while scaling expertise efficiently across markets and time zones.
We foster an environment where curiosity meets accountability. Every designer is self-directed and results-oriented while actively advancing design maturity across SimCorp. Our success is measured in transformed user workflows, reduced time-to-insight, improved compliance outcomes, and strengthened client relationships.
WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
Lead design for a major product area while balancing hands-on design work with leadership responsibilities.
Design Leadership
- Own user experience strategy for a major product area
- Lead design for complex features and user workflows
- Establish design quality standards and review processes
- Drive design system adoption within product area
- Typically focused on one or a few products or features.
- Leads one or several other designers on specific projects to oversee day-to-day design work and ensure alignment with product goals.
Team/Project Leadership
- Provide design direction and mentorship to designers
- Facilitate design critiques and collaborative design sessions
- Support experience designers' professional development
- Coordinate design work across multiple feature teams
- Strong tactical and operational influence within specific product team(s) and project(s).
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Collaborates closely with product managers to create and iterate on interaction solutions that solve complex workflows
- Ensure those solutions are tested and validated with end users.
- Collaborate with Engineering leads on implementation planning
- Present design recommendations to senior stakeholders
WHAT WE VALUE
SimCorp Product Designers balance craft mastery with strategic thinking. We seek designers who can:
Navigate between high-level strategy and detailed execution
Translate complex financial concepts into clear, actionable interfaces
Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and drive stakeholder consensus
Take ownership of projects while contributing to our collective design practice
Leverage the latest in AI tools to prototype interactive concepts and accelerate to user validation as quickly as possible
Requirements:
5-8 years of design experience with leadership capabilities
Strong portfolio demonstrating complex workflow solutions
Experience mentoring junior and mid-level designers
Experience getting the most from AI tools in crafting creative solutions
Deep understanding of user research and usability testing
Excellent communication and presentation skills
BENEFITS
Global hybrid work policy - We ask you to work 2 days a week from the office. If you choose you can work remotely the other days. Of course you are welcome at the office if that is your preference.
Growth and innovation - Every 6th sprint is reserved for planning and innovation. So, with regular intervals you have a chance to explore and learn new skills or improve something that you believe will be beneficial to you, your team or the application.
Self- Direction - High degree of self-organization. Each team and developer have a high degree of freedom to plan, organize and design their work.
Inclusive and diverse company culture
Pension and health benefits and bonus
Work-life balance – We strongly believe that an equilibrium between professional responsibilities makes us all the best version of our self’s, both in private life and as a colleague in the workplace
Empowerment – We believe that all voices are valuable and must be heard. You will involved in shaping our work processes
NEXT STEPS
Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photos, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.
If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on a positive growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.
We are focused on continually improving our talent acquisition process and making everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.