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UI Designer (Design System)
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UI Designer (Design System)
UI Designer (Design System)
Location: Manchester (3 days in office, 2 days remote) Salary: From £37,910
About Us
interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that empowers customers to take control of their financial future.
With nearly 30 years of experience, we’ve weathered market fluctuations successfully. Today, we’re the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, managing assets worth approximately £80 billion and serving over 500,000 customers.
For a transparent, low-cost monthly fee, we provide a secure platform for pensions, ISAs, and investments—offering 20,000+ UK and international investment options (shares, funds, trusts, ETFs). Additionally, our customers benefit from impartial, award-winning financial insights through expert content, community engagement, and daily newsletters.
Purpose of the Role
This UI Designer (Design System) role focuses on creating, maintaining, and evolving ii’s design ecosystem to deliver consistent, accessible, and high-quality customer experiences.
Working closely with the Design System Lead and the Design System & Architecture (DAS) team, you will:
- Contribute to the design system strategy and roadmap.
- Collaborate with UX, research, engineering, brand, content design, and accessibility teams to ensure the system supports both product needs and user accessibility.
Key Responsibilities
Design System Delivery & Evolution
- Partner with the Design System Lead and DAS team to implement and refine the design system strategy and roadmap.
- Develop and maintain system foundations, components, patterns, and documentation.
- Balance short-term product needs with long-term system scalability.
- Support governance processes and promote effective adoption and contribution.
Asset Libraries
- Design, maintain, and refine reusable components and patterns within a robust library.
- Apply systems thinking to component hierarchy, composition, and dependencies.
- Manage design tokens for colour, typography, spacing, and motion.
- Ensure visual consistency, accessibility, responsiveness, and scalability across components.
- Usher naming conventions, variants, states, and versioning standards.
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Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with UX, research, engineering, brand, content design, and accessibility teams to create high-quality, reusable solutions.
- Collaborate with developers to bridge the gap between design and implementation.
- Gather feedback from stakeholders and product teams to continuously improve the system.
- Participate in workshops, reviews, and design thinking sessions.
Documentation & Quality
- Produce clear, actionable documentation for components, patterns, and usage.
- Document behaviours, variants, states, and interaction principles.
- Ensure consistency, accessibility, and usability across the design ecosystem.
- Maintain alignment with visual design standards (typography, colour, iconography, spacing, and motion).
Required Experience & Skills
Core UI Design
- 3–5 years’ experience in UI, product, or digital design.
- Strong visual design skills (layout, typography, colour, spacing, interaction design).
- Proficiency in Figma and component-based workflows.
- Experience designing for responsive platforms and devices.
Design Systems
- Proven experience building and maintaining component libraries.
- Deep understanding of component hierarchy, composition, and dependency management.
- Experience with design tokens and foundational design principles.
- Ability to manage complexity in asset libraries while maintaining consistency.
- Experience documenting design systems (patterns, usage guidelines).
- Systems thinking skills to assess broader design impacts.
Collaboration & Quality
- Experience working in multidisciplinary teams (design, engineering, content, accessibility).
- Strong communication and design advocacy skills.
- Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG/Section 508) and inclusive design.
- Knowledge of implementation considerations (e.g., design-to-code workflows, QA).
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Nice to Have
- Design-to-code (DTC) or participatory coding (MCP) experience.
- Familiarity with Storybook and Zeroheight.
- Basic understanding of HTML/CSS and component-based development frameworks.
- Experience supporting design system governance.
- Contributions to multi-brand or multi-platform design systems.
Success in This Role
The ideal candidate will:
- Apply systems thinking to deliver scalable, reusable solutions.
- Partner effectively with the Design System Lead and DAS team.
- Build strong cross-disciplinary relationships (shared ownership).
- Balance consistency with flexibility to meet evolving product demands.
- Contribute to an iterative design system through collaboration, evidence, and feedback.
Benefits
| Benefit | Detail |
|---|---|
| Pension Plan | 8% employer contribution + 4% employee contribution |
| Life Assurance & Income Protection | Comprehensive coverage |
| Private Medical Insurance | Provided by Bupa |
| Annual Leave | 25 days + bank holidays |
| Staff Discounts | 30% off investment products |
| Personal & Well-being Fund | Support for mental and physical health |
| Retail Discounts | Savings at major UK retailers |
| Voluntary Flexible Benefits | Tailor benefits to suit your needs |
Key Notes
interactive investor operates in line with the UK Equality Act 2010, embracing diversity in all forms (age, disability, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation). Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants. Discrimination and harassment in any form (direct/indirect/associative/perceptive) are not tolerated.
Application Status: We aim to respond to all applicants, but due to high volume, uncontacted applicants after 30 days may be considered unsuccessful.
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