Lead Product Designer, Information Architecture | London, UK

Addepar is a global technology and data company that helps investment professionals provide the most informed, precise guidance for their clients. Hundreds of thousands of users have entrusted Addepar to empower smarter investment decisions and better advice over the last decade. With client presence in more than 45 countries, Addepar's platform aggregates portfolio, market and client data for over $7 trillion in assets. Addepar's open platform integrates with more than 100 software, data and services partners to deliver a complete solution for a wide range of firms and use cases. Addepar embraces a global flexible workforce model with offices in Silicon Valley, New York City, Salt Lake City, Chicago, London, Edinburgh and Pune.

The Design team at Addepar shapes investment professionals' digital experiences. By designing and delivering intuitive, easy-to-use products, we help investment professionals grow their businesses and offer outstanding services to their clients. We take an agile, high-growth approach and champion a client-centred work environment with a focus on constructive feedback and collaboration.

We are seeking a talented Lead Product Designer with expertise in information architecture to join our team. In this role, you will be crucial in shaping the future user experience across our interconnected suite of financial products. You will define our strategic blueprint for how information, content, and data are presented and accessed by users. You will focus on developing an intuitive and cohesive information architecture that seamlessly integrates our offerings into a single, user-friendly platform.

What You'll Do

• Develop and implement our future information architecture strategy that enhances usability and streamlines workflows across our financial products.
• Define the hierarchy, labelling, and relationships between different data and content elements to ensure ease of discovery and access to information.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, UX researchers, and other designers across our platform to navigate structures and information hierarchies that align with business goals and user needs.
• Conduct user research and usability testing to gather insights and feedback, define user mental models and jobs-to-be-done, and refine information architecture and user experience based on data-driven decisions.
• Collaborate with developers and technical leads to understand and align data modelling context with your information architecture strategy.
• Create diagrams, wireframes, prototypes, and design specifications to communicate design concepts effectively and facilitate collaboration across teams.
• Champion a user-centred design approach across all stages of the product development process, ensuring that information architecture is consistently integrated into product designs.
• Build alignment across disparate teams, each maintaining separate priorities and goals, to deliver an integrated platform experience.
• Define and maintain information architecture standards and guidelines to ensure consistency and efficiency across all products.
• Conduct regular audits and user testing to identify improvement areas and make enhancement recommendations.
• Promote your vision and plan across the organisation, working with senior leadership to build alignment across teams.
• Stay current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies, applying this knowledge to foster innovation within the team.

Who You Are

• Ideally, you'll have a Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive experience as a Product Designer or Information Architect, preferably in the fintech or complex data digital spaces.
• Proven experience driving significant information architecture updates for a B2B SaaS platform.
• A portfolio showcasing proven user-centred information architecture design practices and a high degree of design craftsmanship.
• Proven experience in creating and implementing information architecture for complex products or systems.
• Strong portfolio showcasing your design process, including user research, wireframes, prototypes, and final designs.
• Strong analytical skills, content analysis, understanding of user behaviour, ability to create sitemaps, taxonomy development, and knowledge of information design principles.
• Proficient in Figma and other design and prototyping tools.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate design rationale to cross-functional teams and leadership stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a keen eye for detail and a passion for creating intuitive user experiences.

Our Values

• Act Like an Owner - Think and operate with intention, purpose and care. Own outcomes.
• Build Together - Collaborate to unlock the best solutions. Deliver lasting value.
• Champion Our Clients - Exceed client expectations. Our clients' success is our success.
• Drive Innovation - Be bold and unconstrained in problem solving. Transform the industry.
• Embrace Learning - Engage our community to broaden our perspective. Bring a growth mindset.

In addition to our core values, Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.