Senior UX Designer

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 do**
- Creativity: You can effectively demonstrate your expertise in creating seamless user experiences specifically across mobile platforms.
- Interaction design: You will bring with you extensive knowledge of interaction design principals and can produce design that allow users to interact with the app, including animations, transitions, and feedback mechanisms.
- 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 lead the design of the App bringing our brand promise alive within the experience.
- 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.
- 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
- 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 benefits**
- Competitive 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 leadershi