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Our
Reason
for Being

How do we describe the design challenges posed by one of the world’s most important financial software ecosystems? Complex and vast, for a start. And that’s what Bloomberg’s Financial Products UX team lives for. Solving big issues and defining the user experience for a product where billions of dollars are at stake. We operate in nimble, high impact teams — but always with an ego-boostingly high profile in a company that values our work deeply. This is a place for passion and dedication, ideas and humility, where seriousness of purpose and a sense of humor are the fuel we run on.

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What We Do

The World We Thrive In

We spend our professional hours enhancing an iconic software platform — our company’s flagship product. The scale is vast, with thousands of functions — much like apps in an operating system. This gives designers a huge range of challenges and endlessly diverse opportunities to explore solutions for varied user types and domains, from desktop to mobile, hardware to software. Ultimately this is a chance to play a vital role in continuously upgrading one of the world’s premium business to business subscription services.

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Process

It All Comes Together

Our worldview begins and ends with our users’ needs — it’s all about them. When beginning on a major initiative, we conduct research to get to the next level of insight about our clients’ goals and challenges. Emphasizing low-fidelity iterations, we generate ideas, test them in our in-house usability lab, all the while making sure we’re aligned with our technology and business partners. In our small teams, we own these solutions — from beginning to end.

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Our Team

Our People Make it Happen

Keeping everything going smoothly is a dream team of UX skillsets — from interaction design to prototyping, visual design to usability analysis. Much like the user experiences we shape, our team works together seamlessly, collaborating on projects senior management deems crucial for our customers. We get kudos as the company acknowledges and affirms the value we add to the product. And always, we’re scouring the world for the best talent around to keep the momentum going.

  • Interaction Designer

    Interaction designers at Bloomberg are responsible for concept development, wireframe design, and low fidelity prototyping. They visit customers to conduct contextual inquiries, document their observations and synthesize their findings to inform their design solutions.

  • Visual Designer

    Working closely with Interaction Designers and software developers, Visual Designers establish the visual language across all channels, including mobile, balancing the needs of the brand with the need for clear and precise display of complex data.

  • Usability Analyst

    Usability analysts employ a wide variety of research methodologies including task-based lab sessions, heuristic evaluations, card sorts, ethnographic interviews, and data analysis. Our state-of-the-art usability lab is equipped with video, screen capture and eye-tracking technology.

  • Prototyper

    Our prototypers are responsible for building interactive prototypes to validate design concepts for next-generation products. They work closely with the other members of the team to quickly turn interaction and visual design specifications into high-fidelity prototypes that are used by our customers in usability testing.

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Culture

We’re In This Together

The UX team is part of the larger Bloomberg culture — and that’s a good thing. Palpable without being overwhelming, the ethos here is about energy and ideas, teamwork, performance. A flat structure offers meaningful access to senior management, and fuels interaction across the entire organization. Transparency is a key value here, so we are always aware of company performance and understand the larger goals we’re working towards. Our global headquarters in New York City reflects this decidedly un-corporate culture with a stylish, open and dynamic workspace — an inspiring user experience of its own.

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Positions

Make Your Mark

For passionate, talented, ready-for-any-challenge UX professionals across a range of experience levels, Bloomberg is the place to be. Take a look at the following positions and see where you can bring the heat.

  • Mobile UX Designer - Experienced

    New York, NY, US

    Bloomberg is looking for a senior mobile user experience designer to oversee defining the mobile context for our extensive professional offerings. This role will provide design direction, mentor newer members in the team, and guide different product areas in creating pioneering mobile solutions.

  • Interaction Designer – Experienced

    New York, NY, US

    Bloomberg is looking for senior interaction design professionals experienced in the design of complex software products and business systems. This is a position for the serious designer who thrives on being “in the trenches” and responsible for designing and maintaining a collaborative environment across Bloomberg’s product management and technology groups.

  • Interaction Designer

    New York, NY, US

    Bloomberg is looking for entry- to mid-level interaction designers who are multi-skilled innovators with extremely strong interaction design and design communication skills, user research and usability evaluation expertise, and an urge to transform complexity into simplicity.

  • HTML5 UX/UI Developer

    New York, NY, US

    Bloomberg is looking for HTML5 UX/UI developers who will work closely with UX Designers to increase the fidelity of conceptual designs/artifacts, such as paper sketches or wireframes, into interactive prototypes.

  • CSS3 Visual GUI Designer

    New York, NY, US

    Bloomberg is looking for an experienced, innovative Visual GUI Designer specializing in CSS3 development. Proven track record is a must in producing exciting, innovative visuals for modern software applications (desktop, web, mobile, installation or other devices) and an in-depth understanding of the development process in implementing visual design to pixel perfect production.

  • 2013 Visual Design Summer Intern

    New York, NY, US

    Bloomberg is looking for a qualified student who will work with our team of designers, interaction designers, and prototypers toward building new experiences for our core desktop and mobile applications. Our team is seeking candidates with demonstrated visual design skills to work for a 3 month period during the summer.

Events

In the Conversation

We constantly mix with the shakers-slash-movers in the larger UX community, sponsoring and attending industry events. Sometimes we play host to gatherings here in our gleaming New York headquarters.

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Upcoming Events

  • NYC-IxDA Big Apple Redux of Interaction13

    Primary Sponsor and Host
    May 18, 2013
    Bloomberg Headquarters
    New York, NY

    Every year numerous people are unable to attend and partake in this incredible opportunity – so we’re bringing not only the Interaction '13 conference to you, but parts of the IA Summit and the AgileUX event as well.

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  • Machine Learning Meetup

    Primary Sponsor and Host
    May 21, 2013
    Bloomberg Headquarters
    New York, NY

    A group to discuss machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, knowledge representation, and artificial intelligence.

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  • JS Conference 2013

    Platinum Sponsor
    May 30, 2013
    Omni Amelia Plantation Resort
    Ameilia Island, FL

    From the beginning, we wanted one thing as an outcome of JSConf: there to exist a vibrant, positive, and growing family of individuals that use the JS language.

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  • NYC-UXPA World Usability Day 2013

    Primary Sponsor and Host
    November 13, 2013
    Bloomberg Headquarters
    New York, NY

    It's about making our world work better. It's about "Making Life Easy" and user friendly.

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ux@bloomberg.net

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(212) 731-1000