Head of Product Design | InvestEngine

InvestEngine is an ETF investment platform for individuals and businesses. The team focuses on making investing simple, low-cost, and transparent — with a product customers genuinely enjoy using.

They operate in a regulated environment and put a lot of care into clear, fair communication and a strong customer experience across app, web, and all customer touchpoints. Design is one of the key differentiators, and InvestEngine is strengthening how the design function operates as the company grows.

InvestEngine is hiring a Head of Product Design to lead the day-to-day work of the product design function and help scale how design operates across the company.

This is a management and leadership role — you’ll be accountable for the team’s output: quality, consistency, pace, and an increasing reliance on evidence (data, research, and structured UX analytics). A key part of the mandate is improving how the function runs: clearer ownership, data-driven prioritisation, and practical use of AI and modern tooling to increase speed and scalability.

• Managing and developing the design team: structured 1:1s, goal-setting, feedback, and coaching

• Hiring as the team grows: defining requirements, interviewing, and onboarding

• Owning design delivery and operating model: intake, prioritisation, SLAs, delivery tracking, and stakeholder satisfaction

• Building a data-informed practice: usability testing, research routines, UX metrics baselines, journey analytics, and evidence-based prioritisation

• Governing design quality: standards, review gates, and consistency across product (without being the main IC designer)

• Scaling the design system with engineering: documentation, reuse, handoff quality, and adoption tracking

• Driving practical adoption of AI/tooling: clear use cases, workflow integration, and measurable impact (not isolated experiments)

• 5+ years in product design (or equivalent) with strong design judgement, even if this role is primarily leadership/operations

• 3+ years of people management experience (hiring, performance management, coaching)

• Experience improving team ways of working: prioritisation, delivery predictability, and quality gates

• Strong analytical approach: comfortable with research, UX metrics, journey analytics, and evidence-based decision-making

• Excellent English communication (written and spoken) and strong stakeholder management

• Fintech / regulated product experience is a plus (or strong interest in investing + financial products)

Nice to have

• UK-regulated fintech / Consumer Duty experience

• Experience scaling design system adoption with engineering

• Experience building research / UX analytics practice inside a product team

What you get

• A key leadership role in a growing 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