Design Team Lead

🕒 May 7

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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InvestEngine

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

💰 $3M Equity Crowdfunding - InvestEngine on 2023-03

Finance • Fintech • B2C

InvestEngine is an award‑winning, industry‑leading online investment platform that champions low-cost, long-term investing using exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Founded in 2016, it provides accessible, user-focused digital investment products and account management for individual investors, with emphasis on simplicity, low fees, and analytics-driven product design.

📋 Description

• Managing and developing the design team — running structured 1:1s, setting goals, providing regular feedback, and supporting career development for designers across product and marketing streams • Driving practical adoption of AI across the team — identifying tools, introducing them into workflows, and ensuring they are used to improve output rather than as isolated experiments • Hiring as the team grows — defining requirements, running interviews, onboarding new hires • Running usability tests and user research — using existing tools and processes to test designs, gather evidence, and feed findings into prioritisation and design decisions • Owning design delivery and SLAs — defining intake processes, setting tiered turnaround SLAs, tracking on-time delivery, and measuring stakeholder satisfaction with design as a function • Working closely with Product and Marketing to shape work early, clarify requirements, and align on outcomes • Governing design quality — reviewing the team's output, maintaining quality standards and review gates, ensuring consistency across product and brand without carrying individual design work • Building on and scaling the team's existing processes, visibility, and ways of working as we grow • Scaling the design system — driving adoption across designers and engineers, tracking component reuse, identifying gaps, and ensuring the system accelerates delivery • Helping marketing designers produce stronger, more effective work by shaping briefs and direction

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product design (or equivalent), with a strong foundation in design craft even though this role does not involve individual design work • 3+ years of people management experience — hiring, managing, and developing designers day-to-day • Experience scaling a design team • Proven ability to introduce and embed AI tools or workflows that improve team efficiency and output • Strong analytical skills — experience using data (usability testing, journey analytics, CX metrics, NPS/CSAT) to inform and prioritise design work • Comfortable running usability tests and user research using provided tools and translating findings into actionable design priorities • Excellent English communication skills (written and spoken), with the ability to review and improve customer-facing language for clarity and context • Strong organisational and delivery management skills — experience defining SLAs, intake processes, and tracking design delivery across multiple workstreams • Good design judgement and a clear understanding of what high-quality design looks like, combined with the ability to govern quality through review and standards rather than individual output • Ability to work closely with cross-functional stakeholders, measure satisfaction, and build effective, trusted relationships • Comfort operating across both product and marketing contexts • Experience in fintech or another regulated environment, or a strong personal understanding of investing and financial products • A structured and pragmatic approach, with a focus on delivery, clarity, and measurable outcomes • Nice to have: Experience working on both product and marketing design within the same team • Nice to have: Experience contributing to or scaling a design system, including driving engineering adoption • Nice to have: Experience setting up UX dashboards or integrating design metrics into product analytics • Nice to have: Experience with structured goal-setting and performance management frameworks

🏖️ Benefits

• Impact from day one • Room to grow • Transparent and open culture • Supportive, high-calibre team • Flexible working setup