Senior UX Designer

Job Description

To further our expansion, we are now recruiting for a Senior UX Designer to play a prominent role in our UX Team, producing designs for our award-winning platforms. Reporting directly to the UX Lead you will provide senior-level design expertise, taking UX responsibility for a specific business area.

We are looking for someone with a minimum of 5 years experience in UX and who wants to join a passionate team of creatives working with the financial services industry.

What you'll be doing

• Design leadership: Help lead the strategic planning of design initiatives, aligning design efforts with broader business goals. Play a key role in shaping our overall design strategy, influencing decision-making at senior levels.
• Creativity: You can effectively demonstrate your expertise in creating seamless user experiences across various devices (mobile & web) and platforms.
• Design Systems: You have extensive knowledge in creating and maintaining components in a Figma library, bringing creative ideas to help iteration, contributing extensively to the development of our new design guidelines and component libraries. 
• Collaboration: You are able to collaborate with executive and cross-functional teams and will play a key role in building and nurturing team collaboration.
• Decision making: You can make informed and strategic decisions in the design process, balancing user needs, business considerations and creative goals.
• Research: You can illustrate skills in designing and overseeing comprehensive usability testing processes, utilising both quantitive and qualitative methodologies.
• You can effectively communicate design ideas, rationales and strategies clearly and persuasively to various audiences.
• You will be an advocate for UX in the wider business looking for opportunities to showcase UX, via blog posts, chances to talk and proactive workshops that are not on the product roadmap.
• You will be able to inspire and motivate team members providing mentorship and guidance.
• Contribute to weekly UX Critique sessions.

What you'll already have

• Naturally creative
• Confident communicator
• Strong collaboration skills
• Passionate
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a UX role
• Expert in prototyping software (Figma, XD etc)
• Deep understanding of user psychology
• Accessibility expertise
• Experience in guiding junior members of the team
• Expertise in juggling multiple projects
• Naturally inquisitive
• Self-motivated and ambitious

About us:

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers, to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 503,000 …