Product / UI Designer

Department: Marketing

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Location: London

Reporting To: Head of Marketing & Planning

Shape a best-in-class design system that powers both product and digital experience across a multi-brand platform. Turn complexity from multiple acquisitions into one seamless, scalable user experience. Role Overview: We're at a pivotal stage of transformation, following multiple acquisitions across the adviser technology and insights space. Now, we're consolidating these into a unified, future-ready experience rethinking how our platforms, products and digital experiences come together. This role will play a critical part across two major initiatives:

• Creating a unified digital experience through a new CMS and website ecosystem
• Designing the product experience for Defaqto Unity, our consolidated adviser platform

In summary, an exciting opportunity to define a design system that scales across brands, audiences and products and is built for the future, including AI-driven experiences.

• Establish a unified, scalable design system across Unity and sub-brand sites
• Ensure a seamless experience across marketing and product environments
• Define what remains consistent (components, layout, interaction) and what flexes (tone, imagery, emphasis)
• Create a system that works across multiple brands and audiences

This will include:

• Design tokens (colour, typography, spacing, layout, iconography, interaction)
• A comprehensive component library (navigation, forms, data display, CTAs, states)
• Interaction patterns for key workflows and user states
• Page templates and layout systems for both marketing and product use cases

• Define components and patterns in a structured, explicit and unambiguous way
• Document rules, constraints and usage clearly
• Ensure outputs can be used by AI to generate and maintain pages without interpretation

• End-to-end journeys from marketing site through to logged-in product experience
• Adviser workflows (fact find > recommendation > submission > review)
• Consumer journeys (discovery > understanding > action)

• One consistent experience across marketing and product
• Data-first interfaces with a single source of truth
• Clarity and usability over visual decoration
• Consistency at scale across all touchpoints
• Modular, component-based design (Atomic Design approach preferred)

• A system that scales across multiple brands without redesign
• A seamless experience across web and product
• Outputs that are structured enough for AI-driven assembly
• Clear, intuitive design that can be understood quickly and applied consistently

• Relevant qualification in UX, UI, Product Design or similar (or equivalent experience)
• Strong understanding of design systems and scalable UI architecture
• Experience designing across both marketing websites and software products
• Familiarity with multi-brand environments and complex digital ecosystems
• Awareness of emerging AI design considerations is advantageous
• Expertise in UI design, interaction design and component-based thinking
• Ability to translate complexity into clear, usable design patterns
• Strong documentation skills - structured, precise and scalable outputs
• Collaborative approach with the ability to work across product, marketing and tech
• Proven experience designing and delivering design systems at scale
• Experience working across complex, multi-product or post-acquisition environmentsBackground in B2B, SaaS or platform-based products is highly desirableExperience contributing to or leading large-scale digital transformation projectsComfortable working at pace in a short-term, impact-driven contractAble to operate independently while aligning with a wider visionHighly structured, detail-oriented and pragmaticFocused on delivering solutions that scale, not one-off designs Important to know

  Location: This role can be worked on a UK remote or hybrid basis. Ideally, we'd like you to be able to work onsite in our London office from time-to-time for collaboration purposes and to get to know key stakeholders face to face but this isn't essential.

  Right to Work

  Applicants must already hold a legal right to work in the UK without time restrictions and without the need for future sponsorship. We are unable to provide Skilled Worker visa sponsorship.