To further our expansion, we are now recruiting for a Senior UI/Visual 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 the visual look and feel of our App.
We are looking for someone with a minimum of 5 year’s experience in visual and interaction design for Apps and who wants to join a passionate team of creatives working with the financial services industry.
What you'll do
- Design leadership: Play a key role in shaping our overall design strategy for our App and help influence decision-making at senior levels.
- Creativity: You can effectively demonstrate your expertise in creating seamless user experiences specifically for Apps.
- App focused: You are highly skilled in the creation of UI elements for App/mobile across iOS and Android, with a deep understanding of interaction design and how to craft delightful mobile experiences.
- 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, using research as a guide.
- 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 have
- Naturally creative
- Confident communicator
- Strong collaboration skills
- Passionate
- Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a UX/UI role
- Expert in prototyping software (Figma)
- 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 528,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £83.7 billion. 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 1,400 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years.
Our perks and benefits
- Starting salary of up to £55,000
- 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
Hybrid working
At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.
AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we'd love to speak to you.
AJ Bell
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
Other jobs at AJ Bell
Why OmniJobs?
- Rare & hidden jobs
- New jobs every day
- No expired job posts
- All jobs in English
Receive emails about similar jobs
Get alerts to your inbox about new open jobs that are similar to this one.
No spam. No ads. Unsubscribe anytime.
Similar jobs