Product Designer

Job Description

At Aberdeen our ambition is to be the UKs leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industrys best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients customers colleagues shareholders and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses interactive investor (ii) Investments and Adviser each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients evolving needs:

• interactive investor the UKs second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform enables individuals in the UK to plan save and invest in the way that works for them.
• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the Department

Were committed to a product operating model where teams are empowered autonomous and accountable giving you the freedom to innovate and own solutions from concept to delivery.

Join a forward-thinking team at the heart of Aberdeens Adviser business where we lead the end-to-end design discovery and delivery of cutting-edge digital products and services for Financial Advice firms.

If youre passionate about delivering real impact our focus on customer and business outcomes will give you the opportunity to make a tangible difference.

Youll be part of a team that values collaboration autonomy and a growth mindset helping us stay at the forefront of the market as we design digital experiences that supercharge advice firms to delight their clients.

About the Role

As a Product Designer youll help shape how we discover design and deliver value across our digital products for Financial Advice firms. Youll turn insight into clear journeys flows and interfacesraising the quality and coherence of the experience and making it easier for advisers and clients to get things done.

Youll work closely with Product Managers Content Managers Engineers Analysts and other Designers from discovery through delivery. Youll contribute to research and ideation craft polished designs and bring teams around a shared understanding of the problem and the solution. You care about the details youre thoughtful about accessibility and compliance and you use evidence to iterate and improve.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver wellcrafted accessible and responsive designs across journeys from framing the problem to prototypes ready for build.
• Translate research and insight into clear flows wireframes and content that solve real user needs in context.
• Map and improve endtoend journeys spotting gaps and inconsistencies and proposing pragmatic ways to close them.
• Communicate design decisions clearly seek feedback early and iterate based on evidence and team input.
• Collaborate with Product Managers on scope and priorities ensuring the right problems are tackled at the right time.
• Partner with Engineers to validate feasibility cover states and edge cases and support smooth handover and release.
• Apply accessibility and inclusive design best practices and ensure designs are ready for compliance review.
• Contribute to our design systemreusing patterns where it makes sense and suggesting enhancements when it doesnt.
• Support usability testing and evaluation; help plan observe and synthesise findings to inform what we ship next.
• Surface risks and dependencies early and contribute to the comms and artefacts that help teams launch with confidence.

About the Candidate:

• Experience delivering product design in agile productled teams.
• Figma and FigJam skills and a good eye for detail.
• Comfortable working with a design system and contributing thoughtfully to shared patterns.
• Confident mapping journeys and designing endtoend flows.
• Familiar with planning and acting on usability testing and other research methods.
• Clear communicator and storytellerable to explain tradeoffs and bring stakeholders along with you.
• Systems thinker with solid problemsolving skills and a pragmatic deliveryminded approach.
• Knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design standards and how to apply them daytoday.
• Collaborative proactive and resilientkeeps momentum when priorities shift.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

Theres more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn get involved and be supported.

When you join us your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days annual leave a 16% employer pension contribution a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable) private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits including gym discounts season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefitshere.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas our vectors of growth focused on our clients changing needs. You can find out more about what we dohere.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work if you have the talent and commitment to join our team wed like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen weve adopted a blended working approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles their teams our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture where diverse perspectives drive our actions is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements for example because you are neurodivergent or have a physical sensory cognitive mental visible or invisible disability please let us know and well be happy to help.

Were committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds experience cognitive and neurodiversity age gender gender identity sexual orientation disability religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.