UI Designer (Design Systems)

To further our expansion, we are now recruiting for a UI Designer to join our Design System team, producing designs for our award-winning platforms. Reporting directly to the Design System Lead, you will be working across our D2C (direct to consumer) AJ Bell platform to deliver a large-scale design system across mobile and web.

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 of 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. 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. Over time, you’ll become a trusted expert that others look to for guidance and leadership.

What you’ll do:

• Hands-on design: You are skilled at creating design system components in Figma, with a strong understanding of interaction design and UI best practices.
• UI specialist: You are able to create high-quality, responsive UI designs that balance usability and accessibility with delightful user experiences.
• Maintain and manage the design system: You are confident producing component documentation and managing design tokens.
• Design system thinking: You are able to 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.
• Design Systems: You have extensive knowledge in creating and maintaining components in a Figma library, bringing creative ideas to help iteration, contributing extensively to the development of our new design guidelines and component libraries.
• Collaboration: You are able to collaborate cross-functionally and play a key role in nurturing team collaboration.
• Decision making: You can make informed decisions during the design process where you balance user needs, business considerations, accessibility compliance, and use research as a guide. You can effectively communicate your ideas and rationale to team members and stakeholders.

What you’ll have:

• 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 autolayout, 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

About AJ Bell:

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 644,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £103.3 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company. Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years and in 2025 named a Great Place to Work®.

At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.

Benefits:

• Starting holiday entitlement of 25 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 6%
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual free share awards scheme
• Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
• Health Cash Plan – provided by Medicash
• Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
• Free gym membership, with an on-site gym providing a wide range of free classes
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Sick pay+ pledge
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Loans for travel season tickets
• Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech
• Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups
• Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
• Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
• Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
• Ongoing technical training
• Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
• Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
• Casual dress code
• Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals

At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That’s why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.

AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we’d love to speak to you.