Senior Product Designer in Bristol

Senior Product Designer - (UX/UI)

Location: Edinburgh, Leeds or Bristol

Grade: Senior Consultant

Employment Type: Permanent, Full Time

Hybrid

REQ003897

About XPS Group:

XPS Pensions Group is no ordinary company. We've earned numerous awards and accolades, making us an industry leader in Pensions Consultancy. As the largest pure pensions consultancy in the UK, we are a team of approximately 2000 employees spread across 15 locations nationwide. Listed on the London Stock Exchange Main Market, we pride ourselves on our ability to think and act differently, offering expert advice to over 1600 pension schemes and administering pensions for over 1,000,000 members.

About the Team:

We are seeking an experienced, dynamic and ambitious professional to fill the role of Senior Product Designer within our rapidly growing Client Communications Team.

This role is to establish product design as a core capability within our pensions administration business - creating user-centred, accessible, and outcome-led digital experiences across our digital platforms and the audiences they serve: pension scheme members, our clients (trustees, sponsors, and corporate stakeholders), and the administrators who serve them.

This is a foundational, hands-on role. As well as designing, you will define the design standards, patterns, and ways of working that embed design into how we build digital products - working alongside our user researcher and visual designer to keep design decisions grounded in evidence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Interface and experience design - Design intuitive, end-to-end experiences across our member, client, and administrator platforms, from early concepts through to delivery.
• Insight-led design - Turn research and insight into clear design decisions, using usability testing to validate and refine solutions.
• Design standards and consistency - Apply and evolve our design standards, patterns, and design system to maintain high-quality, consistent experiences aligned to our brand.
• Prototyping - Create wireframes and interactive prototypes to explore, test, and validate concepts before development.
• Accessibility and inclusion - Build accessibility and inclusive design into every experience, with particular care for members with lower digital confidence and accessibility needs.
• Design quality and risk - Take ownership of design quality and user-experience risks, including accessibility, data protection, platform change, and migration.
• Ways of working - Work closely with product, development, content, research, and other disciplines to embed design effectively throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Stakeholder influence and outcomes - Advise and challenge stakeholders, champion user needs, and connect design decisions to meaningful member, client, and administrator outcomes.
• Design capability - Contribute to the growth of our broader in-house digital experience capability across research, product design, content, testing, accessibility, and service design.

Your Profile:

Essential:

• Right to work in the UK.
• Significant experience in digital product design, with evidence of owning design projects from discovery through to delivery.
• Experience designing complex digital products and services, ideally within the pensions, financial services, or another regulated industry.
• Experience working directly with stakeholders and decision-makers.
• Experience balancing competing user needs, business priorities, and technical constraints.
• Demonstrable experience in accessibility and inclusive design.
• Experience using research and usability testing to inform and validate design decisions.
• Experience using emerging design and AI tools to accelerate research, design, prototyping, or design-to-code workflows.

Skills, abilities & personal qualities:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, work independently, and deliver high-quality outcomes to agreed timescales.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with a pragmatic and outcome-focused approach.
• Commitment to continuous learning and professional development.

What We Offer:

Enjoy a competitive salary, annual discretionary bonus, and 25 days’ holiday with buy/sell flexibility. Benefits include pension matching, healthcare plans, life assurance, and retailer discounts. We support our team with a flexible benefits scheme, employee assistance, and digital GP service. Participating in volunteering events is encouraged with paid volunteer days available. Referral bonuses are offered for introducing suitable candidates to XPS.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should submit applications below or contact recruitment@xpsgroup.com. Join XPS Group and contribute to a dynamic and inclusive workplace.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

XPS Group is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. We welcome applications from all candidates, irrespective of sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or belief. As a Disability Confident employer, we ensure accessible and supportive work settings for all employees.

Eligibility:

Any employment offer made will be conditional upon you satisfying DBS Disclosure checks, Employment or educational references, Satisfactory credit checks and eligibility to work in the UK before an offer can be made. XPS Group is not able to provide sponsorship to employees.

Who are we:

To find out more please visit: www.xpsgroup.com