Head of Design - APAC & ME
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
Hello, we’re IG Group. We are a publicly-traded FTSE250 FinTech company who run mobile, web and desktop platforms that help our clients trade stocks & shares, leveraged products, Futures & Options and Crypto.We are ambitious. Over 340,000 people already use our platforms. We’re global with offices in 18 countries and products in 16 regions. We’re hungry to move faster, ship better product for our customers and grow our user base. We believe in high autonomy, and we want people who are looking to do things differently in order to create better experiences for our customers.We work in cross-functional teams and are laser focused on increasing the number of active clients we serve to drive sustainable growth.Your teamThis role is as a member of the Divisional Product & Design Leadership Team. We work very closely with our Technology function and each of the four countries the division serves.Your role in the Team’s SuccessYour primary responsibility will be to lead our Design team in APAC & ME, building upon our excellent trading record, as we look to target a new segment of each of our markets. Our success as a division will be based on attracting a new cohort of Customers who want financial freedom, access to global markets, products and services that allow them to best return on the funds available to them and fulfil their investing and trading strategies.What you’ll doOwn the entire design process from ideation to implementation and everything that entails - UX, UI, prototypingBuild a Design System and supporting framework to applied to multiple countries.Work with pace and energy to prototype, test and iterate design ideasProactively observe and implement learnings from user testing and researchUse excellent communication skills to get everyone, at all levels, excited about your workCollaborate closely with other UX and product designers, product owners and developers to create a highly efficient delivery teamLead a team of designers based across our markets, bring your thought leadership to our design process helping us develop and improveDemonstrate experience of design systems to help us define and refine our design languageCoach and support more junior members of the teamWhat you’ll need for this roleKey Qualification Requirements:
- 7+ years’ experience delivering global products in a similar large-scale product led environment
- Slick, thoughtful and flexible design skills - typography, grid systems, cross-platform UI
- Have a strong appetite for complexity, for thinking about data, numbers, forms, and for disentangling workflows associated with managing and consuming data
- Ability to create working prototypes and demonstrate interactive design solutions
- Have excellent presentation, storytelling and communication skills
- Proven track record of delivering conceptual work
- Experience of creating and maintaining design systems
- An appreciation of modern design trends and patterns
- Keen attention to detail across all levels of design of your design process