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Associate Director, Senior UX Designer (FTC)

Janus Henderson Investors 🇬🇧 London, City of London, United Kingdom

Hybrid Contract Senior

The Senior UX Designer will lead UX strategy and design approaches for complex digital initiatives, creating intuitive, accessible, and effective digital experiences across the global ecosystem. This role involves championing accessibility, driving contributions to the Design System, and collaborating closely with various cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

  • Lead UX strategy and define design approaches for complex digital initiatives
  • Design user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity solutions that elevate digital experiences
  • Champion accessibility and inclusive design, ensuring adherence to WCAG standards and best practices
  • Drive contributions to the JHI Design System including patterns, components, and usage guidance
  • Collaborate closely with marketing, product, engineering, content, and brand partners
  • Translate business goals, analytics insights, and user needs into clear UX recommendations

Requirements

  • Prior UX design experience creating digital experiences
  • Expertise in Figma and modern prototyping and research tools
  • Deep knowledge of UX strategy, interaction design, responsive design, and accessibility
  • Strong communicator able to simplify complexity and influence at all levels
  • Experience working with or contributing to a design system
  • Familiarity with HTML/CSS is a plus

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations
  • Generous holiday policies
  • Excellent health and wellbeing benefits
  • Paid volunteer time
  • Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more

Key Skills

UX design User experience User interface Design systems Figma Prototyping Wire-framing Interaction design Accessibility Inclusive design HTML/CSS Communication Collaboration Problem-solving Leadership Mentoring

About Janus Henderson Investors

At Janus Henderson, we are investors – we help clients define and achieve superior financial outcomes through differentiated insights, disciplined investments, and world-class service. This is what we do. It’s how we do it that sets us apart. Our “Clients come first - always” approach stems from the belief that working together is the way to work better. This is symbolized by our ampersand, which represents our connections with clients, as we bring people and ideas together as we seek the best possible outcomes. We draw on more than 90 years’ experience of insight-led investing that seeks to uncover the unvarnished truth. This approach enables our teams of experts to form independent perspectives based on the real-world implications of investing. Our global reach and expertise allow us to continuously innovate as we partner with clients and bring our whole firm to deliver solutions. We are proud to invest on behalf of millions of people as we fulfil our purpose of investing in a

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