Product Designer and UX researcher

Overview

You will be the first dedicated research hire in a small, senior design team building an AI work-execution platform for the alternative investment sector. You’ll own the research practice end-to-end and design from evidence, guiding discovery, usability work, flows, prototypes, and shipped UI on a weekly release cadence. The role serves investment analysts, associates and partners, delivering data-dense, expert-facing interfaces. You’ll work on a high-ownership team with direct access to executive leadership, shaping how the product solves real, high-stakes financial workflows. This is a chance to impact a regulated, confidential domain with meaningful, tangible outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• Salary of 70,000
• Close working relationship with executive leadership
• Opportunity to build impactful financial services product
• Innovative, collaborative working environment
• Office in central London

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the evidence base for product decisions and translate findings into design outputs
• Plan and run qualitative and quantitative studies (discovery interviews, contextual inquiry, usability testing, behavioural analysis)
• Develop and maintain research operations (participant access through client relationships, consent, data handling, searchable insights)
• Create lightweight, repeatable methods to fit a fast release rhythm and produce evidence quickly
• Turn research findings into user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity UI using the in-house design system
• Design and evaluate AI-assisted workflows focusing on trust, verification, and failure modes
• Collaborate with product and engineering from problem framing to release, ensuring traceability of decisions

Key requirements

• 5+ years in product design and user research for software products
• Portfolio showing studies that influenced decisions and shipped interfaces
• Strong command of qualitative methods with working knowledge of quantitative analysis
• Fluency in Figma and rapid prototyping
• Experience designing for expert or professional users in high-skill domains such as finance, legal, or healthcare
• Bachelor’s degree in design, HCI, psychology or related field, or equivalent experience

• excellent synthesis and communication abilities
• ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams
• clear storytelling to make research findings actionable
• Figma
• rapid prototyping
• qualitative and quantitative analysis

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