Lead UI Designer D2C

Lead the UI design strategy for financial platforms, ensuring consistency and accessibility. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive and usable designs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the UI design strategy for our financial platforms, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and modern aesthetics across all touchpoints.
• Design elegant, high-fidelity interfaces for web and mobile products used by retail and institutional users.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with UX designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers to deliver cohesive and usable designs.
• Own and evolve our design system, working to maintain a scalable, component-based approach to UI design.
• Mentor and guide other designers, providing design critiques, direction, and fostering a culture of craft and curiosity.
• Ensure all designs comply with financial regulations, accessibility standards, and best practices (e.g., WCAG, responsive design).
• Stay up to date with UI trends, design tools, and FinTech innovations, bringing fresh ideas to the table.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in UI/visual/product design with at least 2 years in a lead or principal role.
• Proven track record designing complex digital products, ideally in financial services, FinTech, banking, or regulated environments.
• Deep expertise in Figma and design system management.
• Strong understanding of information architecture, layout, visual hierarchy, and interaction patterns.
• Experience working with or contributing to design systems in cross-functional teams.
• Confident presenting and articulating design rationale to stakeholders and executives.
• Highly collaborative with excellent communication skills.
• Detail-oriented but pragmatic; you know when to aim for perfection and when to ship.
• Comfortable balancing business, user, and technical needs.
• Able to mentor and inspire junior and mid-level designers.

Key Skills

• Deep expertise in Figma and design system management.
• Strong understanding of information architecture, layout, visual hierarchy, and interaction patterns.
• Experience working with or contributing to design systems in cross-functional teams.
• Confident presenting and articulating design rationale to stakeholders and executives.
• Highly collaborative with excellent communication skills.
• Detail-oriented but pragmatic; you know when to aim for perfection and when to ship.
• Comfortable balancing business, user, and technical needs.
• Able to mentor and inspire junior and mid-level designers.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Starting holiday entitlement of 26 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 7%
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual free share awards scheme
• Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
• Health Cash Plan – provided by Medicash
• Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
• Free gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Bike loan scheme
• Sick pay+ pledge
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Loans for travel season tickets
• Death in service scheme
• Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech
• Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups
• Paid time off for volunteer work
• Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
• Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
• Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
• Ongoing technical training
• Professional qualification support
• Talent management programmes
• Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
• Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
• Casual dress code
• Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals