Design Team Lead | InvestEngine
About InvestEngine
InvestEngine is an ETF investment platform for individuals and businesses, focused on making investing simple, low-cost, and transparent — in a regulated environment where clarity, fairness, and customer outcomes matter.
Design is a key differentiator for InvestEngine. As the company scales, they want the Design function to operate with more consistency and measurable impact — grounded in data, research, and a strong operating system.
The role
InvestEngine is looking for a Design Team Lead to run the day-to-day operation of the Design function and raise the bar on how the team works. This is a leadership role where your output is the team’s output.
You’ll partner closely with business stakeholders to ensure work is well-scoped, prioritised, and delivered predictably. A major part of the role is building a scalable system: goals, operating cadence, quality gates, and a practical approach to AI/tooling that improves speed and consistency.
What you’ll be responsible for
Lead and develop a team of designers (hiring, performance management, coaching, 1:1 cadence)
Establish a reliable operating model: intake, prioritisation, SLAs, delivery tracking, and stakeholder satisfaction
Embed data-driven design practices: hypotheses, measurement plans, UX metrics baselines, and journey analytics
Make research and usability testing part of routine decision-making (using existing tools and processes)
Govern quality via standards and review gates; improve clarity of customer-facing language in a regulated context
Drive adoption and scaling of the design system across design and engineering (documentation, reuse, handoff quality)
Introduce and operationalise AI/tooling across the team (clear use cases, adoption, measurable impact)
What we’re looking for
Experience leading and developing designers in a product environment (people management + hiring)
Strong analytical approach to design: comfortable with metrics, experiments, and evidence-based decisions
Ability to set up team-level processes that improve quality and predictability
Excellent communication (written and spoken English) and stakeholder management
Strong understanding of what good design looks like in complex, regulated products (fintech experience is a plus)
Practical experience integrating AI/tools into workflows (beyond ad hoc experimentation)
Nice to have
UK regulated fintech / consumer duty experience
Experience running design systems adoption with engineering
Experience building research/UX analytics practice inside a product team
What you get
A key leadership role in a high-growth fintech where design is a strategic differentiator
Ownership to build a measurable, scalable design function (systems, process, culture)
A team and leadership group that actively experiments with AI and modern tooling