UI Designer (Design System)

Title:  UI Designer (Design System)

Location:  Manchester 3 days in office, 2 days remote

Salary:  From £37,910

Who we are:

interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.

We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £80 billion and over 500,000 customers.

For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.

We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

Purpose of the role:

This role focuses on creating, maintaining, and evolving ii's design ecosystem to deliver consistent, accessible, and high-quality customer experiences.

Working closely with the Design System Lead and the Design System and Architecture (DAS) team, you will help deliver the design system strategy and contribute to the ongoing evolution of the system. The role requires close collaboration with UX, research, engineering, brand, content design, and accessibility teams to ensure the system meets the needs of products, users, and contributors.

Key responsibilities

Design System delivery and evolution

• Partner with the Design System Lead and DAS team to deliver the design system strategy and roadmap.
• Contribute to the evolution of system foundations, components, patterns, and documentation.
• Balance immediate product requirements with the long-term health and scalability of the system.
• Support governance processes and encourage effective contribution and adoption.

Asset libraries

• Create, maintain, and refine reusable components and patterns within a robust asset library.
• Apply systems thinking to component hierarchy, composition, and dependencies.
• Maintain design tokens across colour, typography, spacing, motion, and other foundational elements.
• Ensure visual consistency across components, patterns, templates, and foundations.
• Ensure components are scalable, accessible, responsive, and support multiple use cases.
• Maintain naming conventions, variants, states, and versioning standards.

Cross-functional collaboration

• Work closely with UX, research, engineering, brand, content design, and accessibility teams to create reusable, high-quality solutions.
• Partner with developers to ensure alignment between design assets and coded components.
• Gather feedback from stakeholders and product teams to inform continuous improvement.
• Participate in workshops, reviews, and collaborative problem-solving activities.

Documentation and quality

• Produce and maintain clear guidance for components, patterns, and usage.
• Document behaviours, variants, states, and interaction principles.
• Contribute to maintaining consistency, quality, accessibility, and usability across the ecosystem.
• Maintain visual design standards across typography, colour, iconography, spacing, motion, and interaction patterns.

Requirements

Required experience and skills

Core UI design

• 3–5 years' experience in UI, product, or digital design.
• Strong visual design fundamentals, including layout, typography, colour, spacing, and interaction design.
• Proficiency with Figma and component-based workflows.
• Experience designing responsive experiences across platforms and devices.

Design Systems

• Proven experience creating and maintaining component libraries and design systems.
• Strong understanding of component hierarchy, composition, and dependency management.
• Experience working with design tokens and foundational design principles.
• Confidence managing complex asset libraries and maintaining consistency across products.
• Experience documenting components, patterns, and usage guidelines.
• Ability to think systematically and understand the wider impact of design decisions.

Collaboration and quality

• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate design rationale.
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.
• Understanding of implementation considerations and quality assurance processes.

Nice to have

• Experience with design-to-code and MCP workflows.
• Familiarity with Storybook and Zeroheight.
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and component-based development frameworks.
• Experience contributing to design system governance.
• Experience supporting multi-brand or multi-platform ecosystems.

Success in this role

The successful candidate will:

• Apply systems thinking to create scalable and reusable solutions.
• Partner effectively with the Design System Lead and DAS team to evolve the system.
• Build strong relationships across disciplines and promote shared ownership.
• Balance consistency with flexibility to support evolving product needs.
• Contribute to a design system that continuously improves through collaboration, evidence, and feedback.

Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Plan – 8% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution
• Life Assurance and Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance – Provided by Bupa
• 25 Days Annual Leave, plus bank holidays
• Staff Discounts on our investment products
• Personal & Well-being Fund – Supporting your physical and mental wellness
• Retail Discounts – Savings at a wide range of high street and online retailers
• Voluntary Flexible Benefits – Tailor your benefits to suit your lifestyle

Please Note:  We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful.

interactive investor operates in accordance with the UK Equality Act 2010. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, disabilities, gender identities, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and making reasonable adjustments where needed to support disabled applicants. We actively prevent all forms of discrimination, harassment, and victimisation—whether direct, indirect, associative, or perceptive