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Overview
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. We are looking for someone with a minimum of 6 years experience in UX who wants to play a prominent role in helping embed a shared UX vision.
What You''ll DoCreativity: You can effectively demonstrate your expertise in creating seamless user experiences specifically across all digital channels
Ownership: help lead the end-to-end UX design process across product areas
Design leadership: Assist with 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.
Brand knowledge: You will be able to follow and contribute to wider branding initiatives and help facilitate our brand promise of "feel good investing" into different 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.
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.
Contribute to weekly UX Critique sessions.
What You''ll HaveNaturally creative
Confident communicator
Strong collaboration skills
Passionate
Business acumen
Brand awareness
Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Minimum 6 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 620,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £96.1 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 1500 employees and have been named one of the UK''s ''Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years.
Our Perks And BenefitsCompetitive starting salary
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, 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
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.
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