What is a UX/UI Designer?
A UX/UI Designer at S&P Global shapes how professionals analyze markets, assess risk, and make high-stakes financial decisions. Your work brings clarity to data-dense, information-rich workflows across our product portfolio—from Market Intelligence dashboards and Ratings workflows to post-trade platforms and Kensho’s AI-powered tools. You will craft interactions and interfaces that turn complex datasets, models, and corporate actions into intuitive, reliable experiences trusted by banks, asset managers, governments, and enterprises worldwide.
This role is critical because our customers operate in time-sensitive, accuracy-critical environments. Thoughtful UX reduces operational risk and accelerates insight; elegant UI increases adoption and trust. You’ll partner with product, engineering, data science, and subject-matter experts to translate intricate rules (e.g., ISO 20022), multi-step processes (e.g., corporate actions life cycle), and advanced analytics into experiences that are fast, accessible, and scalable. Expect to contribute to enterprise design systems, lead usability validation, and ship production-grade designs that power decisions with real-world impact.
You will thrive here if you enjoy solving wicked, domain-heavy problems: aligning business objectives with user needs, instrumenting measurable outcomes, and designing for performance, compliance, and accessibility at scale. The work is challenging and consequential—exactly the kind of challenge that builds exceptional product designers.
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Getting Ready for Your Interviews
Your preparation should focus on three pillars: a crisp, outcome-driven portfolio narrative, structured problem solving under constraints, and fluency in enterprise/data-heavy UX. Build stories that show how you reduce complexity, align stakeholders, and measure impact. Be ready to move fluidly between strategy (why), craft (how), and execution (what and when).
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Role-related Knowledge (Technical/Domain Skills) – Interviewers look for mastery in interaction design, information architecture, design systems, accessibility (WCAG), prototyping, and usability testing. For S&P Global, you’ll stand out by demonstrating comfort with data visualization, error/edge states, and financial/enterprise contexts. Show real Figma files, your component logic, and how you design for scale.
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Problem-Solving Ability (How You Approach Challenges) – We assess your ability to frame ambiguous problems, identify constraints, generate options, and select tradeoffs with evidence. Narrate your thinking: how you define success metrics, run lean experiments, and converge on a solution that balances user value, feasibility, and business viability.
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Leadership (Influence Without Authority) – Strong candidates facilitate alignment, defend user-centered decisions with data, and guide teams through discovery and delivery. Demonstrate how you led workshops, resolved conflicts, and influenced product direction—especially when requirements, timelines, or compliance needs shifted.
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Culture Fit (Collaboration and Ambiguity) – Expect questions about cross-functional collaboration, working with PMs, engineers, and SMEs, and navigating complex regulatory/operational constraints. We value integrity, discovery, and partnership; show how you listen deeply, iterate quickly, and raise the bar for your team.
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Interview Process Overview
You can expect a structured, portfolio-led process that tests how you think, communicate, and ship in a complex, data-rich environment. Rather than emphasizing trick questions, S&P Global focuses on the clarity of your problem framing, your design rationale, and your ability to partner with cross-functional teams. The pace is professional and deliberate; conversations often dive deep into information density, system constraints, and compliance.
The process is rigorous but fair. You’ll encounter a combination of portfolio review, craft-focused discussions, and product-thinking or case exercises that simulate real S&P Global challenges (e.g., workflows for corporate actions, AI-augmented analysis, or data-heavy dashboards). Expect interviewers to probe for impact evidence, ask you to walk through component-level decisions, and evaluate how you’d iterate based on usability insights and stakeholder feedback.
This visual timeline outlines the typical sequence—from initial screens to portfolio, craft, and cross-functional conversations. Use it to map when to deepen your portfolio story, when to prep for case prompts, and when to highlight collaboration and delivery. Keep your materials organized, confirm logistics early, and maintain concise follow-ups to stay aligned on next steps.
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