Platform Design Lead

Location: London or Edinburgh

Hybrid: 2 days a week in office

Role Overview

The Platform Design Lead will collaborate across disciplines to enhance the scalability, usability, and consistency of ClearScore’s design system, internal tools, and documentation. Reporting to the Director of Platform Design, you’ll play a critical role in shaping the future of design at ClearScore while mentoring others and supporting cross-functional success. This hands-on role sits at the heart of our Platform mission. You’ll lead the design system that underpins all ClearScore features across iOS, Android, web, and internal platforms. You’ll also guide content model development for our headless CMS and contribute to the design of internal tools. The role is based in either London or Edinburgh with flexibility in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

What You'll Do

• Lead, develop and mature the Design System: Own the evolution, maintenance, and governance of ClearScore’s design system to ensure scalable, reusable, and accessible design components. Create robust design libraries, empowering the design team to deliver high quality, consistent experiences across platforms. Work intensely with full-stack teams to build scalable solutions and ensure components are built to spec and efficiently integrated across platforms.
• Embed and champion system use across teams: Be the go-to advocate for implementing and scaling the design system across products and missions. Mentor product designers and front-end engineers on best practices, contribution workflows, and component governance. Run knowledge-sharing sessions, create documentation and contribute to onboarding colleagues.
• Enhance internal tools and processes: Partner with product, design, and engineering to improve tools (e.g. design tokens pipelines, CMS authoring interfaces) and workflows to accelerate delivery. Contribute to our headless CMS strategy, particularly around content model design and scalability. Strategise with senior leaders as we evolve internal tools and technologies.
• Drive strategic alignment: Partner with senior leaders on the Platform vision and ensure the design system supports business goals, user needs, and technical scalability — globally and across verticals. Align design system evolution with emerging platform architecture (e.g. SDUI, token pipelines).

About You

We’re looking for a skilled and experienced professional with the following:

• Proven experience building and governing multi-brand, multi-platform (iOS, Android, web) design systems.
• Able to audit, refactor, and componentise legacy UI for reuse across products and platforms.
• Strong portfolio showcasing intuitive, responsive, accessible, and scalable interfaces.
• Expert-level Figma skills, especially with Tokens Studio and component architecture.
• Leading within a strong cross-functional Platform team is a bonus.

Technical Skills

• Comfortable working with front-end frameworks and tooling: GitHub, JSON, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin.
• Familiarity with SDUI architectures and how design tokens and UI components map to server-driven schemas.
• Experience contributing to or owning a headless CMS content model is a strong plus.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Confident leading cross-functional design initiatives and mentoring colleagues.
• Skilled at planning, prioritising, and scoping system and tooling work - including collaboration with engineers and PMs.
• Able to clearly present rationale, align stakeholders, and influence decision-making across disciplines.

Strategic Thinking

• Strategic mindset and ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term system health.
• Proactive in identifying industry trends, competitor activities, emerging technologies, and opportunities for design system evolution and innovation.

Why ClearScore?

ClearScore is the UK's #1 credit score and report app. We are also present in South Africa, Australia and Canada, with more than 24 million users globally and growing fast. We have established relationships with over 50 of the main lenders in the U.K., and have been a trusted tool for customers to manage their credit and make better financial decisions. We are user-centric at our core and we believe in leveraging technology to enable positive financial choices. We are design-led and data-driven and we embed these behaviours in everything we do. Our company culture is a fundamental part of all we have achieved. We believe in hiring smart, driven, passionate and diverse people who are keen on having a real impact in our organisation. We trust you to manage your own time so we offer flexible work and no fixed desk hours. We don’t micromanage and we believe in measuring outcomes rather than effort. We have an inclusive culture where all, regardless of seniority, are encouraged to contribute with their ideas, look after their wellbeing and actively seek opportunities for career growth.

Benefits include:

• 25 paid holidays and a “duvet day” on your birthday
• Private health and dental cover - including mental health support through Bupa
• Up to 6% matched pension
• Regular Lunch and Learns with guest speakers
• Dog-friendly office
• Daily breakfast and free snacks
• Access to discounts via Cobens Extras
• Free sports and social clubs
• Continued investment into learning and development
• Leadership-led training
• In-house psychotherapist
• Financial coach to help you plan and achieve your goals
• No clock-watching culture
• Generous maternity and paternity plans
• Culture and inclusion representatives
• Transparent pay structure and a career growth plan

ClearScore is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. As an equal opportunity employer, we are able to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate individuals with disabilities during the recruitment and selection process. If you require accommodation, please inform us in advance, and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Our Hybrid Model

We embrace a dynamic hybrid work environment that balances flexibility with collaborative in-person experiences. Our approach is designed to foster innovation, team connection, and individual productivity. Level 6 and above: Minimum 3 days per week in-office. We believe this structure offers the best of both worlds - the flexibility of remote work and the synergy of face-to-face collaboration. Our office days are carefully coordinated to maximise team interactions and learning/mentorship opportunities.

What This Means for You:

• Flexibility to manage your work and life
• Dedicated in-office days for team building and collaborative projects
• Office facilities (with plants!) designed for productive interactions
• Clear expectations and support for maintaining our hybrid schedule

We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment that accommodates diverse needs while maintaining our collaborative culture. Join us in shaping the future of work!

Note: While we offer flexibility, commitment to our hybrid schedule is an important aspect of our team culture and performance expectations.

Inclusion Policy

We are always looking for talented individuals to join ClearScore. We are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our people.