551 Ux Lead jobs in the United Kingdom

UX Design Lead

Fixed-Term (4 Months)

Remote-first (UK-based), with occasional travel to office in the M5 corridor

£70,000 per annum (Pro Rata)

A leading B2B fintech company is seeking a talented and experienced UX Design Lead to join on a 4-month fixed-term contract to provide paternity cover. This role is ideal for a senior designer who can lead UX design across complex digital products, maintain brand and design system consistency, and work effectively in a remote-first environment.

The Role

You will be responsible for leading UX initiatives across key digital platforms, ensuring high usability and a consistent visual experience. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver intuitive user journeys and polished, brand-aligned interfaces. This position requires both hands-on design and strategic thinking.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading UX design for B2B software products, following established design templates and brand guidelines.
• Creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups.
• Working closely with product and development teams to understand user needs and deliver intuitive design solutions.
• Supporting documentation and handovers to ensure continuity post-contract.
• Contributing to stakeholder discussions and design iteration processes.

Skills & Experience

Required:

• Strong UX/UI design experience, ideally within B2B or fintech sectors.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace (Docs, Slides, etc.).
• Advanced skills in Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Photoshop.
• Ability to work within and expand on existing brand and design systems.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working in distributed teams.

Preferred:

• Experience in the financial technology sector.
• Basic video editing skills.
• Familiarity with design tools such as Figma or Sketch.

So, if this role sounds of interest then please apply today!

Job Description:

Role Overview

Lead Visual Innovation That Transforms Ideas into Extraordinary Experiences

We believe exceptional design goes beyond aesthetics—it's about crafting visual narratives that captivate, inspire, and drive meaningful connections between brands and their audiences.

As a Creative Lead, you'll spearhead visual innovation across our diverse client portfolio, transforming complex challenges into stunning, purposeful design solutions. You'll blend strategic thinking with creative excellence, leading talented teams to push boundaries and deliver work that doesn't just meet expectations, it redefines them.

What You’ll Do

As a Creative lead, you will:

• Drive exceptional visual experiences from concept to launch, ensuring every pixel serves a purpose and every interaction delights users across multiple client engagements.
li>Lead and inspire multidisciplinary visual design teams, providing hands-on creative direction while fostering an environment where bold ideas flourish and creative risks are celebrated.
• Architect comprehensive visual systems that seamlessly integrate typography, color, animation, and interaction patterns to create cohesive, scalable brand experiences.
• Mentor emerging design talent, guiding career growth through thoughtful critique, strategic feedback, and hands-on collaboration that elevates both individual skills and team performance.
• Navigate complex project landscapes with strategic precision, balancing creative ambition with business realities while maintaining uncompromising quality standards.
• Collaborate intimately with UX designers and strategists to ensure visual solutions are not only stunning but functionally robust and user focused.

What You Bring

• 8+ years of senior-level visual design experience with a portfolio that demonstrates mastery in typography, color theory, layout composition, and visual storytelling across digital platforms.
• Proven leadership capabilities with experience building, mentoring, and inspiring creative teams to deliver consistently exceptional work.
• Deep expertise in design systems architecture, digital UX principles, interaction design, and comprehensive understanding of user-centered design methodologies.
• Strong creative vision paired with the ability to articulate design rationale compellingly to diverse stakeholders, from creative peers to C-suite executives.
• Growth mindset characterized by intellectual curiosity, resilience in the face of creative challenges, and enthusiasm for continuous learning and adaptation.
• Meticulous attention to detail combined with natural ability to cultivate positive, collaborative team dynamics that bring out the best in every team member.

If you bring the following, you're a superstar in our eyes

• Deep experience designing mobile-first products and B2C environments.
• Familiarity with banking or fintech domains, including trust, compliance, and accessibility in regulated spaces.
• Experience leading creative teams across multiple industries or complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Background in motion design, animation, or emerging design technologies that push creative boundaries.
• Experience working directly with C-level executives or in client-facing creative leadership roles.

Join us if you're ready to lead creative excellence that transforms businesses, inspires teams, and creates visual experiences that leave lasting impressions.

Job Description:

Role Overview

Lead Visual Innovation That Transforms Ideas into Extraordinary Experiences

We believe exceptional design goes beyond aesthetics—it's about crafting visual narratives that captivate, inspire, and drive meaningful connections between brands and their audiences.

As a Creative Lead, you'll spearhead visual innovation across our diverse client portfolio, transforming complex challenges into stunning, purposeful design solutions. You'll blend strategic thinking with creative excellence, leading talented teams to push boundaries and deliver work that doesn't just meet expectations, it redefines them.

What You’ll Do

As a Creative lead, you will:

• Drive exceptional visual experiences from concept to launch, ensuring every pixel serves a purpose and every interaction delights users across multiple client engagements.
li>Lead and inspire multidisciplinary visual design teams, providing hands-on creative direction while fostering an environment where bold ideas flourish and creative risks are celebrated.
• Architect comprehensive visual systems that seamlessly integrate typography, color, animation, and interaction patterns to create cohesive, scalable brand experiences.
• Mentor emerging design talent, guiding career growth through thoughtful critique, strategic feedback, and hands-on collaboration that elevates both individual skills and team performance.
• Navigate complex project landscapes with strategic precision, balancing creative ambition with business realities while maintaining uncompromising quality standards.
• Collaborate intimately with UX designers and strategists to ensure visual solutions are not only stunning but functionally robust and user focused.

What You Bring

• 8+ years of senior-level visual design experience with a portfolio that demonstrates mastery in typography, color theory, layout composition, and visual storytelling across digital platforms.
• Proven leadership capabilities with experience building, mentoring, and inspiring creative teams to deliver consistently exceptional work.
• Deep expertise in design systems architecture, digital UX principles, interaction design, and comprehensive understanding of user-centered design methodologies.
• Strong creative vision paired with the ability to articulate design rationale compellingly to diverse stakeholders, from creative peers to C-suite executives.
• Growth mindset characterized by intellectual curiosity, resilience in the face of creative challenges, and enthusiasm for continuous learning and adaptation.
• Meticulous attention to detail combined with natural ability to cultivate positive, collaborative team dynamics that bring out the best in every team member.

If you bring the following, you're a superstar in our eyes

• Deep experience designing mobile-first products and B2C environments.
• Familiarity with banking or fintech domains, including trust, compliance, and accessibility in regulated spaces.
• Experience leading creative teams across multiple industries or complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Background in motion design, animation, or emerging design technologies that push creative boundaries.
• Experience working directly with C-level executives or in client-facing creative leadership roles.

Join us if you're ready to lead creative excellence that transforms businesses, inspires teams, and creates visual experiences that leave lasting impressions.

interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.

We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers.

For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.

We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

PURPOSE OF ROLE:

As a UX Research Lead, reporting to the UX Research Manager, you will be responsible for both leading a team of UX Researchers and driving research efforts. You will manage a diverse team of researchers across multiple squads, ensuring their professional growth and guiding them to deliver high-quality research. At the same time, you will actively design and conduct research using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to deepen our understanding of current and potential users, helping to create user experiences that are simple, intuitive, and high-performing. You will also collaborate closely with Product Managers to plan and deliver UX research roadmaps.

You will work in a team alongside other UX professionals, who are leading the user-centric product transformation of a financial services business. It is an exciting role that will make a real difference within an industry that is ripe for better design thinking and a user-centered focus.

Day to day, you’ll be collaborating with UX Designers, UX Copywriters, UX Researchers, Data Analysts, CRO, Product Owners, Product Managers, Developers, Testers, Customer Service Advisers, and stakeholders across the business.

Your research insights will need to inform, influence, and support cross functional teams in their quest to understand more about our users, which in turn will be used to generate ideas and highlight opportunities for our roadmaps that will help champion user driven decisions and improve the user experience.

Requirements

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the UXR Squad Roadmaps and oversee the work of UX researchers within your tribe
• Manage and lead a team of UX Researchers (Multi levels)
• Provide continuous feedback and guidance to UX Researchers at all stages of the research process
• Ensure the timely delivery of high-quality work, supporting the squad in maintaining an agile workflow.
• Work as part of the double diamond process
• Embed user research into our discovery and product development process working with Research, UX Designers, Analytics and the Product Owners and - Product Managers.
• Deliver collaborative research sessions including set up, recruitment, moderation, data collection, analysis and debrief.
• Bring stakeholders along the end to end research journey, making research visible and engaging.
• Conduct primary and secondary user research using both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify, prioritise and evaluate research topics.
• Plan and implement user research strategies and methodologies with UX managers and other team leads.
• Advocate research findings to diverse audiences through written and oral presentations.
• Ability to ask and answer questions, gather, analyse and synthesise data.
• Use a diverse set of UX research tools such as UserZoom, Hotjar, Usabilla and Contentsquare.
• Provide support, guidance and coaching to designers, researchers, copy writers, product managers and UX & UI to up-skill them, and embed a user-first mindset.
• Drive accessibility within the UX Research team
• Implement research insights across the organisation
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Leadership & Mentoring skills
• Understand qualitative research methods
• Understand quantitative research methods
• User Research Methodologies such as User Interviews, Usability Testing, - -- Diary studies, Competitor Research
• Great communication skills
• A can-do, proactive attitude
• Ability to see patterns in research to help aid the designers
• Meticulous sense of detail and the ability to seek out simple solutions to - complex challenges
• Report writing
• Ability to recruit users / customers
• Confidence speaking with stakeholders
• Resilience
• Collaborative approach to working with cross disciplinary teams

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

STRAIGHT TALKING | MOVING WITH SPEED | OWNING THE OUTCOME

• Clear communicator

• Strong team player

• Demonstrated passion and drive for delivering the best outcome

• Moving with speed – delivering faster and better

• Decisive and take ownership of outcomes

• Not afraid to challenge and be open to challenges

Personal Attributes:

STRAIGHT TALKING    |    MOVING WITH SPEED    |    OWNING THE OUTCOME

• Clear communicator
• Strong team player
• Demonstrated passion and drive for delivering the best outcome
• Moving with speed – delivering faster and better
• Decisive and takes ownership of outcomes
• Not afraid to challenge and be open to challenges

Benefits:

• Group Personal Pension Plan  – 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution
• Life Assurance  and Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance  – Provided by Bupa
• 25 Days Annual Leave , plus bank holidays
• Staff Discounts  on our investment products
• Personal & Well-being Fund  – Supporting your physical and mental wellness
• Retail Discounts  – Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers
• Voluntary Flexible Benefits  – Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle

Please Note:  We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful.

interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation—whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive

• Lead the design process for web and mobile applications, from user research and concept development to final UI implementation.
• Develop wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups that effectively communicate design concepts.
• Conduct user research, usability testing, and gather feedback to inform design decisions.
• Translate user needs and business requirements into intuitive and engaging user interfaces.
• Create comprehensive design systems and style guides to ensure brand consistency and scalability.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, developers, and stakeholders throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Mentor and guide a team of junior UX/UI designers, fostering their professional growth.
• Present design solutions and articulate rationale to clients and internal teams.
• Stay current with the latest design trends, tools, and technologies.
• Champion user-centered design principles and best practices within the agency.
• Manage multiple design projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality outcomes.
• Contribute to the strategic direction of product design initiatives.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or a related field.
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in UX/UI design, with at least 2 years in a leadership or senior role.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in user-centered design, interaction design, and visual design across various platforms.
• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, InVision, or similar.
• Experience with conducting user research and usability testing.
• Solid understanding of web and mobile technologies, and their impact on design.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to effectively manage and mentor a design team.
• Experience working in an agile development environment is a plus.
• Ability to work effectively in a hybrid work model, balancing remote collaboration with in-office engagement.