Job Description
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Job Description
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As part of our continued growth at AJ Bell, we are recruiting for a UI Designer to join our Design System team and help shape the future of our award-winning digital platforms. Reporting to the Design System Lead, you will work across our D2C (direct-to-consumer) AJ Bell platform to deliver a large-scale design system across mobile and app.
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We are looking for a designer with a minimum of 4/5 years' experience in UX/UI and a love for UI. This role is largely focused on the creation and ongoing maintenance of design system components and asset libraries. It requires a good understanding on how components work, with experience handing over designs to development as a must-have. We’re looking for designers who will enjoy focusing on the details but also maintain a macro-level appreciation for how the entire design system behaves.
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There’s an exciting rebrand underway, alongside a redesign of the AJ Bell app and website. You will play a key role in shaping our design standards for D2C, working hands-on with UX designers, developers, and product managers to champion the design system and encourage its adoption.
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What you’ll do:
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- Hands-on design: create design system components in Figma, demonstrating a strong understanding of interaction design and UI best practices.
- UI specialist: create high-quality, responsive UI designs that balance usability and accessibility with delightful user experiences.
- Maintain and manage the design system: produce component documentation and manage design tokens.
- Design system thinking: approach situations through a design systems lens, considering the reusability of design elements and contribute to our documentation.
- Design ownership and influence: contribute to the design system strategy across our platforms and support decision-making at the team level.
- Collaboration: collaborate cross-functionally and play a key role in nurturing team collaboration.
- Decision making: make informed decisions during the design process where you balance user needs, business considerations, accessibility compliance, and use research as a guide.
- Communication: effectively communicate your ideas and rationale to team members and stakeholders.
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What you'll bring:
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- A minimum 4 years’ experience within a UX/UI role.
- Good working understanding of front-end practices and atomic design principles.
- Excellent knowledge of Figma; confident using auto layout, components, variables and managing libraries.
- Naturally creative and inquisitive.
- Confident communicator and confident giving/receiving feedback.
- Comfortable juggling multiple priorities.
- A strong collaborative and iterative mindset.
- Good understanding or experience of designing with WCAG or A11y guidelines in mind.
- Nice to have: knowledge of Widgetbook, desire to mentor and guide junior members of the team, understanding of user psychology.
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About AJ Bell
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At AJ Bell, we believe investing should feel good. Whether you're looking for an ISA, pension or dealing account, whether you want to invest with the help of a financial adviser or do it yourself, we have easy-to-use solutions to suit people from all walks of life.
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We're one of the UK's fastest-growing investment platform businesses, trusted by everyone from professional financial advisers to first-time investors.
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Today, over 762,000 customers trust us to manage more than £121.5 billion of assets. By continually striving to make investing simpler and more accessible, we're helping more people take control of their financial futures.
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We're proud to be recognised as one of the UK's Best 100 Companies to Work For for six consecutive years, and a Great Place to Work® in 2025 and 2026, a reflection of our supportive and collaborative culture.
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What we offer:
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- 25 days holiday, increasing with service + buy/sell scheme + bank holidays
- 6% Pension with matched contributions
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Share schemes (including free shares and BAYE)
- Health Cash Plan and discounted private healthcare
- Enhanced family leave (subject to qualifying criteria)
- Travel and bike loan schemes
- Employee Assistance Programme
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Life at AJ Bell
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- Regular social events including summer and Christmas parties
- Learning and development opportunities tailored to you
- Casual dress code
- Friendly, supportive team environment
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Our ways of working
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We offer hybrid working, with a minimum of 50% of your working time per month spent in the office.
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For new starters, there is an initial period of full-time office working to help you settle in and build relationships.
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Inclusion & diversity
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We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and able to be themselves at work.
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We welcome applications from all backgrounds and make hiring decisions based on skills, experience, and potential.
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