Product Designer and UX researcher

Product Designer and UX researcher

Location: London Salary: 70,000 Working pattern: On-site, based in central London

A chance to be the first research hire inside a small, senior design team at an AI work-execution platform built for the alternative investment sector. You'll own the research practice end to end and design from your own evidence - discovery and usability work through to flows, prototypes and shipped UI on a weekly release cadence. The users are investment analysts, associates and partners, so the work is data-dense, expert-facing and genuinely hard to get right. The team is small, high-ownership and in-office, with direct access to the executive leadership.

THE ROLE Reporting to the Head of Product Design, you'll combine hands-on product design with ownership of the research practice for a platform used by some of the most time-poor, expertise-dense professionals anywhere. Build the evidence base that product decisions rest on, then design from it. Work across discovery and usability research through to flows, prototypes and shipped interfaces. Operate at a weekly release cadence within a small, senior, high-ownership team. Solve the access problem: users are hard to reach, their data is confidential, and participant access runs through client relationships.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING The role splits across two areas - building the research practice and delivering design. Plan and run qualitative and quantitative studies: discovery interviews, contextual inquiry with investment teams, usability testing and instrumented behavioural analysis. Build the research operations backbone - participant access through client relationships, consent and data handling for confidential financial contexts, and a searchable insight repository. Establish lightweight, repeatable methods that fit a fast release rhythm, producing evidence in days rather than quarters. Turn findings into designed solutions: user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes and high-fidelity UI built on the in-house design system. Design and evaluate AI-assisted workflows for user trust, verification behaviour and failure-mode tolerance, contributing golden examples and failure taxonomies to AI evaluation sets. Partner with product and engineering from problem framing through to release, arguing for prioritised, traceable decisions where trade-offs happen.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR 5+ years in product design and user research for software products. A portfolio showing both studies that changed decisions and interfaces you designed and shipped. Strong command of qualitative methods and a working command of quantitative analysis. Fluency in Figma and rapid prototyping. Experience designing and researching for expert or professional users - finance, legal, medical or comparable high-expertise domains. Excellent synthesis, visual and communication skills: work that is read, believed and acted on. * Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, psychology or a related field, or equivalent experience.

NICE TO HAVE Financial services or investment-workflow exposure, including data-dense interfaces. Experience designing and researching AI-assisted or automation products, including trust and verification behaviour. Experience working within or contributing to a design system. Research-ops experience in confidential or regulated data environments.

BENEFITS Salary of £70,000. Close working relationship with an executive team with over 20 years' experience leading a business serving hundreds of leading clients in the alternative investment space. The chance to build something with real impact for established firms in financial services. Innovative, supportive and collaborative working environment. * Office in central London.

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