Senior UX Designer; Advised - Investcentre

Senior UX Designer (Advised - AJ Bell Invest centre)

AJ Bell Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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Job Description

To further our expansion, we are now recruiting for a Senior UX Designer to play a prominent role in our Advised UX Team, producing designs for our award-winning platforms. Reporting directly to the Lead UX Designer, you will provide senior-level design expertise across our Invest centre platform.

We are looking for someone with a minimum of 7 years experience in UX, ideally with a background in financial services. You’ll have a strong passion for solving complex problems and the ability to collaborate, influence, and negotiate with a wide range of stakeholders. Our advised platforms support more than 182,000 customers and has over £62bn in assets under administration. Designing and evolving products at this scale brings unique and rewarding challenges, and we’re seeking someone who will thrive in this environment.

Over time, you’ll take ownership of Invest centre’s experience, shaping its future and becoming a trusted expert that others look to for guidance and leadership.

• 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 both desktop and mobile.
• Remain hands on in design:
  You will be an expert in your craft, designing every day and leading by example.
• 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 design guidelines and component libraries.
• Collaboration:
  
  You are able to collaborate with anyone 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 quantitative 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.
• You will be able to inspire and motivate team members providing mentorship and guidance.

• Naturally creative
• Confident communicator
• Strong collaboration skills
• Passionate
• Business acumen
• Brand awareness
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in a UX role.
• Expert in prototyping software (Figma)
• Deep understanding of user psychology
• Accessibility expertise
• Experience in guiding other members of the team
• Expertise in juggling multiple projects
• Naturally inquisitive
• Self-motivated and ambitious

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 640,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totaling more than £103.3billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company. Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For' for six consecutive years and in 2025 named a Great Place to Work®.

• 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…