Head of Product Design - London, United Kingdom - CMC Markets

CMC Markets
CMC Markets
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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

CMC Invest is a business within CMC Markets, a FTSE 250 listed organisation which has existed for over 30 years with a global footprint.

While CMC Markets has pioneered the CFD and financial spread betting solutions with their technology and customer service solutions, we are creating a start-up within this organisation.


We can, and do, leverage the whole organisation but fundamentally we are a nimble FinTech which acts as a transformation catalyst to drive forward how we want to be a customer-led business.

We have our own culture and drive, and we aim to be the gold standard in what the business of tomorrow looks like for CMC Markets.


Today CMC Invest offers investment services to retail customers, helping them achieve their goals by keeping them focused on long-term goals and educating our users.

We want to continue to service our customers beyond their investment needs into holistic wealth management and other financial needs in their life, and even growing to service their family's financial needs too.

Role summary


We have a big mission and ambition; we want to help customers manage their finances, starting with how you invest and achieve your wealth goals.

We believe the best way to make this happen is by being absolutely customer obsessed.


As a Head of Product Design for CMC Invest, you'll play a vital role in the Product function in both a hands on and strategic management capacity.

You will be driving forward best design and UX practice for the product, as well as upskilling and mentoring the team.

As a key manager you'll have autonomy over the design and UX direction and how to best fulfil the customer and business needs.


We are looking to transform and focus our ways of working to be a test and learn, data driven, user focused business.

As a department we are transitioning from a feature factory into solving customer problems.

This means we want individuals from all walks of life and backgrounds who can help our customers achieve their goals.

Our team members work in mixed resource squads, they guide and influence one another, they engage with the business, and they meet with our customers.


You will be working with passionate Product Managers, Product Designers, iOS Developers, Android Developers, TypeScript Developers, Q&A Testers, and Cloud Architects.

You will be supported by industry experts, various SMEs, and an open and encouraging leadership team who genuinely wish to disrupt the sector.

We believe in being measured on our outputs and the value we deliver to our customers.

You will have the flexibility in how you achieve your goals and the best way to create an amazing customer outcome.


You are responsible for:

  • Managing and growing the Product Design team, currently we have three Product Designers, one for each of our squads
  • Helping drive and manage planning, research to support the design, development and continuous improvement of our customer experiences
  • Owning the design strategy as well as contributing towards the wider product vision and positioning
  • Defining the vision for the UX and UI before overseeing its implementation
  • Providing aesthetic judgement and facilitating the team

As the role progresses, you'll:

  • Mentor the Product Design team to continue their development and ability
  • Help steer the Product function to be user centric and obsessed with our customers
  • Raise the profile of the design function within CMC Invest
  • Identify future trends in UI/UX design highlighting any gaps or unmet needs and build proposals for innovation
  • Suggesting and refining the tools and processes we use and follow to help enable delivery
Our designers use Figma, Miro, FigJam, and we are developing our own design system.

As a wider team we use the full Atlassian suite of tools, from Confluence to Jira, and for Product Management we use ProductBoard.

Internally we have Microsoft Teams to communicate and share information.

We also have user research tools and software to help us track sessions and key events, such as mParticle, Amplitude, Firebase, GA, Full Story, Braze, and looking to find even more best in class solutions to help us.


Each squad has its own specialism and focus, we have a range of opportunities and want to continue to narrow the scope as we expand the number of squads to create true vertical ownership across the organisation.

Starting with the customer and making them the driving force for all our decisions all the way down into all aspects of our technology and culture.

Key skills and experience


A Head of Product Design can come from all backgrounds and in many different forms, we do not believe in cookie cutter Product Designers (Heads of or otherwise), and actively want to speak with the unexpected and eager.

We want individuals who want to challenge the sector, who want to be a disrupter, who want to work with designers and their teams to bring each other up.

You may have a traditional design or marketing background and found Product Design to be a natu
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