Lead UXUI Designer

The Role

Were looking for a Lead UX/UI Designer to shape worldclass user experiences across multiple delivery channels. This senior individual contributor role owns complex crossfunctional design initiatives and sets the bar for visual craft interaction design and evidencebased decisionmaking.

You will own the CX roadmap based on customer feedback distilled by user research.

Youll partner closely with product managers engineers data teams and stakeholders across the business helping drive both immediate improvements and longterm strategic UX evolution.

What youll do

Design Leadership & Strategy

• Lead endtoend design for complex product initiativesfrom discovery to deliveryspanning multiple channels and customer segments.
• Translate ambiguous problem spaces into clear hypotheses design directions and highimpact solutions.
• Champion evidencebased design shaping research questions success metrics and measurement plans.

Design Delivery

• Produce user flows information architecture wireframes highfidelity UI and interactive prototypes using Figma at an expert level.
• Facilitate complex stakeholder alignment with clear rationale storytelling and structured communication (workshops Looms walkthroughs).
• Ensure your work meets the highest standards of craft accessibility and usability.

Mentorship & Team Support

• Provide informal leadership direction and feedback to junior/mid designersuplifting quality consistency and design maturity.
• Conduct design critiques share best practices and coach others on systems thinking and UX fundamentals.

DataDriven Design

• Partner with PMs engineers and data analysts to define success events and measurable UX outcomes.
• Use analytics tools (Heap or similar) to validate assumptions and inform iteration.

Design System & UI Standards

• Extend and refine our design system with scalable accessible components tokens and patterns.
• Create documentation that ensures clarity and consistency across teams.
• Identify opportunities for convergence across products to improve coherence and efficiency.

Research & Customer Insight

• Partner with researchers or independently run lean testing including usability studies concept validation and rapid experiments.
• Translate insights into actionable design decisions and iterate based on feedback.

Collaboration & Quality

• Work closely with engineering throughout the build process providing support spec clarity and QA collaboration to maintain design integrity.
• Maintain organised wellstructured Figma files with clear naming notes and versioning hygiene.

Qualifications :

We recruit talented dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences all united by a belief in our mission to provide the worlds leading and most trusted price reporting events and intelligence service for the markets we serve. Were proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded curious resilient solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality then read on.

KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated driven and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

What youll need

• 7 years experience in product-focused UX/UI with a portfolio demonstrating endtoend work on complex datarich or B2B/SaaS applications.
• Demonstrated ability to lead design work independently and influence product direction.
• Expert-level Figma capability: components variants tokens auto-layout prototyping and design systems.
• Strong interaction design skills and impeccable visual design craft.
• Experience designing for multidevice experiences and responsive layouts.
• Familiarity with analytics experimentation and metrics-driven iteration.
• Superb communication facilitation and stakeholdermanagement skills.
• Ability to act as a mentor and thought partner to less experienced designers.
• Pragmatic outcomefocused and comfortable navigating large or ambiguous problem spaces.

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS.
• Experience with dashboards financial data or information-heavy interfaces.
• Experience in Agile environments (Jira FigJam workshops).
• Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG).

Success looks like

• Clear improvements in user task completion adoption engagement or retention driven by your design work.
• Strong alignment and clarity across product teams with design strategy playing a key part in decisionmaking.
• A more mature scalable and welldocumented design system.
• Improved design standards and quality across the team supported by your guidance.

If youre excited about the role but your experience skills or qualifications dont perfectly align we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information :

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. Its this mix of brilliant personalities experiences and insights that gives us that warm open and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are there are six things we all have in common and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and theyre embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers experience and our business performance
   
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
   
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
   
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
   
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
   
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect perspectives and experiences.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

Youve read a little about us now its over to you!

If you like what youve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person its time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: its used to determine whether or not youll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions well ask you on the day.

Its vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why youre great.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time