Job Description

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Kensho is S&P Global’s hub for AI innovation and transformation. With expertise in machine learning, natural language processing, and data discovery, we develop and deploy novel solutions to innovate and drive progress at S&P Global and its customers worldwide. Kensho's solutions and research focus on business and financial generative AI applications, agents, data retrieval APIs, data extraction, and much more.

At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the autonomy and support needed to build amazing technology and products. We collaborate using our teammates' diverse perspectives to solve hard problems. Our communication with one another is open, honest, and efficient. We dedicate time and resources to explore new ideas, but always rooted in engineering best practices. As a result, we can innovate rapidly to produce technology that is scalable, robust, and useful.

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Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship.

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At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the autonomy and support needed to build amazing technology and products. We collaborate using our teammates' diverse perspectives to solve hard problems. Our communication with one another is open, honest and efficient. We dedicate time and resources to explore new ideas and, as a result, we produce technology that is scalable, robust, and useful.

Are you open to experimenting on what it means to create design best practices in this ever changing world of generative AI? Do you like collaborating with your team members on fast paced products? Do you like to use user research and analytical insights to create thoughtful products? If so, we would love to have you join our design team. Our design team is a tight-knit team and we work closely with our engineers and product team to create great financial products. We are looking for a designer who loves to collaborate and loves to learn.

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What You’ll Do:

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• Plan, conduct and integrate user research findings into the products you design
• Iterate on and validate concepts using sketches, interaction diagrams, wireframes, UI designs, interactive prototypes, and more.
• Design complex interactions and ship high quality generative AI products.
• Collaborate with fellow designers on design standards to continuously enhance and elevate Kensho’s products
• Collaborate with product managers, software engineers, and machine-learning engineers on each step of the design process, from early user and market research through to implementation

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What We Look For:

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• A portfolio of design work highlighting thoughtful UX and UI design from sketches to polished UI.
• Ability to clearly articulate your design process.
• Skill in thinking about scale: how data scales, how content scales, and how layouts scale from wide desktops down to mobile formats.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to articulate user flows and define application architecture.
• Understanding of UI paradigms and the ability to apply or adapt the most appropriate one to each problem.
• Skill in the use of typography and information hierarchy, especially in data-dense interfaces or graphics.

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What Really Gets Our Attention (applicants need not meet all of these!):

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• Experience designing for data-dense and/or AI-driven products
• Experience or finance background

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Technologies We Like:

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• Figma
• User research platforms like userinterviews, usertesting.com, etc

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