Product / UI Designer

Product / UI Designer Department: Marketing Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time Location: London Reporting To: Head of Marketing & Planning Description Shape a best-in-class design system that powers both product and digital experience across a multi-brand platform. Turn complexity from multiple acquisitions into one seamless, scalable user experience. Role Overview: We’re at a pivotal stage of transformation, following multiple acquisitions across the adviser technology and insights space. Now, we’re consolidating these into a unified, future-ready experience — rethinking how our platforms, products and digital experiences come together. This role will play a critical part across two major initiatives: Creating a unified digital experience through a new CMS and website ecosystem Designing the product experience for Defaqto Unity, our consolidated adviser platform In summary, an exciting opportunity to define a design system that scales across brands, audiences and products — and is built for the future, including AI-driven experiences What you need to deliver Establish a unified, scalable design system across Defaqto.com, Unity and sub-brand sites Ensure a seamless experience across marketing and product environments Define what remains consistent (components, layout, interaction) and what flexes (tone, imagery, emphasis) Create a system that works across multiple brands and audiences This will include: Design tokens (colour, typography, spacing, layout, iconography, interaction) A comprehensive component library (navigation, forms, data display, CTAs, states) Interaction patterns for key workflows and user states Page templates and layout systems for both marketing and product use cases Define components and patterns in a structured, explicit and unambiguous way Document rules, constraints and usage clearly Ensure outputs can be used by AI to generate and maintain pages without interpretation End-to-end journeys from marketing site through to logged-in product experience Adviser workflows (fact find → recommendation → submission → review) Consumer journeys (discovery → understanding → action One consistent experience across marketing and product Data-first interfaces with a single source of truth Clarity and usability over visual decoration Consistency at scale across all touchpoints Modular, component-based design (Atomic Design approach preferred) A system that scales across multiple brands without redesign A seamless experience across web and product Outputs that are structured enough for AI-driven assembly Clear, intuitive design that can be understood quickly and applied consistently What you'll need to succeed: Relevant qualification in UX, UI, Product Design or similar (or equivalent experience) Strong understanding of design systems and scalable UI architecture Experience designing across both marketing websites and software products Familiarity with multi-brand environments and complex digital ecosystems Awareness of emerging AI design considerations is advantageous Expertise in UI design, interaction design and component-based thinking Ability to translate complexity into clear, usable design patterns Strong documentation skills — structured, precise and scalable outputs Collaborative approach with the ability to work across product, marketing and tech Proven experience designing and delivering design systems at scale Experience working across complex, multi-product or post-acquisition environments Background in B2B, SaaS or platform-based products is highly desirable Experience contributing to or leading large-scale digital transformation projects Comfortable working at pace in a short-term, impact-driven contract Able to operate independently while aligning with a wider vision Highly structured, detail-oriented and pragmatic Focused on delivering solutions that scale, not one-off designs Important to know: Location: This role can be worked on a UK remote or hybrid basis. Ideally, we'd like you to be able to work onsite in our London office from time-to-time for collaboration purposes and to get to know key stakeholders face-to-face but this isn't essential. Right to Work: Applicants must already hold a legal right to work in the UK without time restrictions and without the need for future sponsorship. We are unable to provide Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Apply To This Job