Design Team Lead

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Design Team Lead responsible for leading and developing designers at InvestEngine. Focused on establishing a scalable design function with measurable impact.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇪 IrelandSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and develop a team of designers (hiring, performance management, coaching, 1:1 cadence)
Establish a reliable operating model: intake, prioritisation, SLAs, delivery tracking, and stakeholder satisfaction
Embed data-driven design practices: hypotheses, measurement plans, UX metrics baselines, and journey analytics
Make research and usability testing part of routine decision-making (using existing tools and processes)
Govern quality via standards and review gates; improve clarity of customer-facing language in a regulated context
Drive adoption and scaling of the design system across design and engineering (documentation, reuse, handoff quality)
Introduce and operationalise AI/tooling across the team (clear use cases, adoption, measurable impact)

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience leading and developing designers in a product environment (people management + hiring)
Strong analytical approach to design: comfortable with metrics, experiments, and evidence-based decisions
Ability to set up team-level processes that improve quality and predictability
Excellent communication (written and spoken English) and stakeholder management
Strong understanding of what good design looks like in complex, regulated products (fintech experience is a plus)
Practical experience integrating AI/tools into workflows (beyond ad hoc experimentation)

Benefits

Comp & perks

A key leadership role in a high-growth 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

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Hard Skills & Tools

data-driven designUX metricsjourney analyticsusability testingdesign systemAI integrationevidence-based decisionsperformance managementhiringquality governance

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingcommunicationstakeholder managementanalytical thinkingprocess improvementteam developmentdecision-makingclarity in communicationadaptability