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Design Team Lead | InvestEngine

Work from home Full-time role Hiring

About InvestEngine

InvestEngine is an ETF investment platform for individuals and businesses, focused on making investing simple, low-cost, and transparent — in a regulated environment where clarity, fairness, and customer outcomes matter.

Design is a key differentiator for InvestEngine. As the company scales, they want the Design function to operate with more consistency and measurable impact — grounded in data, research, and a strong operating system.

The role

InvestEngine is looking for a Design Team Lead to run the day-to-day operation of the Design function and raise the bar on how the team works. This is a leadership role where your output is the team’s output.

You’ll partner closely with business stakeholders to ensure work is well-scoped, prioritised, and delivered predictably. A major part of the role is building a scalable system: goals, operating cadence, quality gates, and a practical approach to AI/tooling that improves speed and consistency.

What you’ll be responsible for

  • Lead and develop a team of designers (hiring, performance management, coaching, 1:1 cadence)

  • Establish a reliable operating model: intake, prioritisation, SLAs, delivery tracking, and stakeholder satisfaction

  • Embed data-driven design practices: hypotheses, measurement plans, UX metrics baselines, and journey analytics

  • Make research and usability testing part of routine decision-making (using existing tools and processes)

  • Govern quality via standards and review gates; improve clarity of customer-facing language in a regulated context

  • Drive adoption and scaling of the design system across design and engineering (documentation, reuse, handoff quality)

  • Introduce and operationalise AI/tooling across the team (clear use cases, adoption, measurable impact)

  • What we’re looking for

  • Experience leading and developing designers in a product environment (people management + hiring)

  • Strong analytical approach to design: comfortable with metrics, experiments, and evidence-based decisions

  • Ability to set up team-level processes that improve quality and predictability

  • Excellent communication (written and spoken English) and stakeholder management

  • Strong understanding of what good design looks like in complex, regulated products (fintech experience is a plus)

  • Practical experience integrating AI/tools into workflows (beyond ad hoc experimentation)

  • Nice to have

  • UK regulated fintech / consumer duty experience

  • Experience running design systems adoption with engineering

  • Experience building research/UX analytics practice inside a product team

  • What you get

  • A key leadership role in a high-growth fintech where design is a strategic differentiator

  • Ownership to build a measurable, scalable design function (systems, process, culture)

  • A team and leadership group that actively experiments with AI and modern tooling

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