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UX Designer - Ops & Regs

Aj Bell 🇬🇧 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Hybrid Full-time Mid-level

The UX Designer will lead design projects from discovery to implementation, collaborating closely with internal teams to understand their workflows and challenges. They will also contribute to the design system and advocate for user experience across the business.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Design Projects: Own end-to-end design delivery, from discovery and research through to implementation.
  • Immerse Yourself in the User Environment: Spend time with internal teams to understand their day-to-day processes, pain points, and successes.
  • Create Wireframes & Prototypes: Translate ideas into tangible design assets (prototyping experience is beneficial but not essential).
  • Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with developers, business analysts, and stakeholders to ensure seamless delivery.
  • Manage Iterative Design: Use feedback and data to refine solutions and improve usability.
  • Contribute to Design Systems: Help to build, maintain, and evolve the design system for consistency and accessibility.
  • Champion UX Research: Liaise with the research team and set up user testing sessions to validate ideas.
  • Advocate for UX: Share insights through blogs, workshops, and proactive engagement across the business.
  • Contribute to Team Culture: Take part in weekly/monthly show and tells and critique sessions, and collaborate with junior team members.

Requirements

  • 2–3 years in a UX role (agency or in-house)
  • Expertise in User-Centred Design principles
  • Knowledge of visual design principles and accessibility standards
  • Awareness of current UX/UI trends

Key Skills

  • Naturally creative and inquisitive
  • Confident communicator and collaborator
  • Passionate about user-centred design
  • Comfortable troubleshooting and problem-solving
  • Adaptable and keen to learn

Benefits

  • Starting holiday entitlement of 25 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 6%
  • 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, with an on-site gym providing a wide range of free classes
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Bike loan scheme
  • Sick pay+ pledge
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
  • Discounted nursery fees at Kids Planet on Exchange Quay
  • 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
  • Parking at Exchange Quay
  • 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

About Aj Bell

AJ Bell was formed in 1995 and is now one of the leading online investment platforms in the UK. We provide customers and advisers with wide investment choice, low-cost delivery, market leading online functionality and first class service to help them manage investment portfolios within SIPPs, ISAs and Dealing accounts. We are a fast growing and profitable company, with over 593,000 customers and £90.4 billion of assets under administration. We are part of the FTSE 250 on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.

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