Senior UX Designer - New Works, United Kingdom - ADLIB

ADLIB
ADLIB
Verified Company
New Works, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Senior UX Designer - Design System Squad

ADLIB are excited to be partnering exclusively with Hargreaves Lansdown's UX design team as they look to scale in several key squads.

It's an exciting time to join as the team continue their mission to put people at the heart of product with huge investmentin digital transformation.


About Hargreaves Lansdown
Here at HL, we're the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos.

We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.
Our mission is to 'help people save and invest with confidence'.

We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.

Our user-centred design team is growing and we're looking for an experienced UX designer to join our growing design system team.


About the UCD team

As part of the user centred design team, you'll be joining over 25 practitioners in UX Design, User Research, Content Design and Visual Design.

You'll also work closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts and Developers as well as the wider HL team.

As a Senior UX designer within the design system team, you will:

The design system is a relatively new endeavour for us and we're growing the team tasked with helping improve the quality, consistency, and development speed of our digital products.


  • Help define and promote organisational design standards
  • Identify, capture and communicate the needs and capabilities of the design system's users
  • Lead the cocreation of the governance, processes and principles needed to manage the design system
  • Collaborate with your team and external squads to assure and document design standards
  • Conduct regular reviews with external squads to simplify, consolidate, and challenge design patterns
  • Collaborate with engineering to define and deliver design system platform architecture and tooling
  • Evaluate the quality, consistency, and usefulness of design system guidance with users
  • Iterate the design system based on evidence and sound rationale
  • Proactively communicate changes and updates to colleagues across the business
  • Assist colleagues across the business with design and accessibility questions
  • Create a shared understanding of users and their experience through the collaborative creation of UX artefacts
  • Present complex information and concepts to colleagues in a clear and articulate manner
  • Work with the UX Design Lead and user centred design practice to promote and shape UX design at HL

About you:


  • Are a passionate advocate for both high design and engineering standards with a meticulous attention to detail
  • Are an open, confident, and considered communicator and collaborator
  • Have excellent knowledge of established design and interaction patterns
  • Have excellent knowledge of web accessibility guidelines
  • Have experience using and contributing to design systems
  • Have experience developing and evaluating information architecture
  • Have experience facilitating effective collaborative workshops
  • Can follow a rigorous, yet flexible, usercentred design process within an Agile environment
  • Can produce testable prototypes (using varied tools and methods) for design research and evaluation
  • Can clearly articulate design rationale to both designers and stakeholders
  • Can employ excellent analytical, and critical thinking skills in your work

Desirable experience
Not essential, but we would also like to see:

  • A degree in UX Design, HCI, or a related field
  • Working knowledge of frontend development
  • Experience working in distributed teams
  • Experience with Figma
  • Experience with ZeroHeight
  • Experience with GitLab (or similar)
  • Experience with Adobe Analytics (or similar)

What you'll get in return:


  • Discretionary annual bonus & annual pay review
  • 25* days holiday plus bank holidays and 1day additional Christmas closure time
  • Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year
  • Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
  • Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
  • Sharesave scheme have a real stake in HL's future
  • Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
  • Health care cash plans including optical, dental, and out patientcare
  • Gympass gym memberships and wellbeing apps available
  • Variety of travel to work schemes with free bike storage and shower facilities
  • An inhouse barista serving subsidised coffee and snacks
  • Join HL's sports, I&D networks and volunteering groups (two paid volunteering days per year)
  • LifeWorks Discounts on services, restaurants and retailers
- up to 30 days depending on role level & increasing with length of service

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