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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 interactive investor
interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that empowers customers to take control of their financial long-term future.
With nearly 30 years of experience, we’ve weathered market fluctuations and built resilience. Today, we’re the UK’s #1 flat-fee investment platform, managing assets worth nearly £80 billion across 500,000+ customers.
We provide a simple, flat monthly fee for secure planning of pensions, ISAs, and investments, offering over 20,000 UK and international investment choices—including shares, funds, trusts, and ETFs. Our mission also extends to delivering impartial expert content through award-winning journalism, a vibrant investor community, and daily newsletters and insights.
Purpose of the Role
This role focuses on creating, maintaining, and evolving interactive investor’s (ii) design ecosystem to deliver consistent, accessible, and high-quality customer experiences.
You will work closely with the Design System Lead and the Design Systems and Architecture (DAS) team to help deliver the design system strategy, ensuring the system meets the needs of products, users, and contributors. Collaboration with UX, research, engineering, brand, content design, and accessibility teams will be essential.
Key Responsibilities
Design System Delivery & Evolution
- Partner with the Design System Lead and DAS team to refine and execute the design system strategy and roadmap.
- Contribute to evolving system foundations, components, patterns, and documentation.
- Balance immediate product needs with long-term scalability and health of the system.
- Support governance processes and foster effective contribution and adoption of the system.
Asset Libraries
- Create, maintain, and refine reusable components and patterns within our asset library.
- Apply systems thinking to component hierarchy, composition, and dependencies.
- Manage design tokens (colour, typography, spacing, motion, etc.) to ensure consistency.
- Ensure components are:
- Visually consistent across products.
- Scalable, accessible, and responsive.
- Capable of supporting multiple use cases.
- Maintain naming conventions, variants, states, and versioning standards.
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Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with UX, research, engineering, brand, content design, and accessibility teams to develop high-quality, reusable solutions.
- Align design assets with engineering implementations via close partnerships.
- Gather stakeholder feedback to continually improve the design system.
- Participate in workshops, reviews, and problem-solving sessions.
Documentation & Quality
- Develop and maintain clear, actionable documentation for:
- Components, patterns, and usage.
- Interaction principles, variants, and states.
- Contribute to intensifying consistency, quality, accessibility, and usability across the ecosystem.
- Manage visual design standards, including:
- Typography, colour, iconography, spacing, motion, and interaction patterns.
Requirements
Required Experience & Skills
Core UI Design
- 3–5 years’ experience in UI, product, or digital design.
- Strong grasp of visual design fundamentals (layout, typography, colour, spacing, interaction design).
- Proficient with Figma and component-based design workflows.
- Experience designing responsive experiences for multiple platforms and devices.
Design Systems
- Proven experience building and maintaining component libraries and design systems.
- Expertise in component hierarchy, composition, and dependency management.
- Hands-on design tokens and foundational design principles.
- Ability to scale systems across products while maintaining consistency.
- Documented knowledge of component behaviour, states, and usage guidelines.
- Capable of systems thinking and understanding long-term design impact.
Collaboration & Quality
- Experience working in multidisciplinary teams.
- Clear communication skills to articulate design rationale effectively.
- Up-to-date accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.
- Understanding of implementation considerations and QA processes.
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Nice-to-Have
- Experience with design-to-code and microcopy (MCP) workflows.
- Familiarity with Storybook and Zeroheight tools.
- Basic knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS) and component frameworks.
- Experience contributing to design system governance.
- Prior work in multi-brand or multi-platform systems.
Success in This Role
A standout candidate will:
- Apply systems thinking to deliver scalable, reusable design solutions.
- Partner with the Design System Lead and DAS team to refine and scale the system.
- Build strong cross-disciplinary relationships, promoting shared ownership.
- Balance consistency with flexibility to support evolving product needs.
- Collaborate to continuously improve the design system through evidence-based feedback.
Benefits
Retirement & Protection
- Group Personal Pension Plan (8% employer + 4% employee contribution)
- Life Assurance and Group Income Protection
Healthcare & Wellbeing
- Private Medical Insurance (provided by Bupa)
- £200 Personal & Well-being Fund for enhanced physical and mental health support
Work-Life Balance
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
Save Money & Save Time
- Discounted investment products for staff
- Retail savings discounts via leading UK retailers
- Option to tailor benefits through Voluntary Flexible Benefits
Note: Due to high application volumes, we aim to respond to all applicants within 30 days. If you haven’t heard back by then, please consider your application unsuccessful.
interactive investor operates in compliance with the UK Equality Act 2010, celebrating diversity across all employment and recruitment practices. We welcome applications from individuals of all:
- Age
- Disability
- Gender identity
- Marital/paternity/maternity status
- Race
- Religion or belief
- Sex
- Sexual orientation
We commit to fair treatment of all applicants and will make reasonable adjustments where necessary. Discrimination—in any form—is not tolerated.
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