Design Systems Designer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in the UK seeks a Design System Designer to shape the strategy of its Design System for mobile and desktop. The ideal candidate will collaborate across design, engineering, and product teams, fostering community contributions and ensuring inclusive design practices. Excellent communication and mentoring skills are essential for this role, as is a proven track record of addressing complex design challenges. Join a dynamic team to elevate the user experience in fintech.

Qualifications

• Proven experience solving design challenges across platforms.
• Strong collaboration skills in fast-paced environments.
• Mentoring designers to foster an innovative environment.

Responsibilities

• Shape strategy for the Design System on mobile and desktop.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, and product teams.
• Foster community contribution and successful system adoption.

Skills

Creative problem-solving

Collaboration

Excellent communication skills

Mentoring

Familiarity with design tools

Tools

Swift

HTML

CSS

Job description

Responsibilities

• As a key member within the J.P. Morgan Personal Investing product design team, your work and voice will have a far-reaching impact. You will:
• Shape the strategy of our Design System for native mobile (iOS and Android) and native desktop, ensuring coherence, adaptability, and long‑term sustainability
• Collaborate across design, engineering, and product to translate emerging needs and design best practices into scalable system improvements
• Co‑own delivery roadmaps and collaborate with the engineering to enable teams to drive both design and engineering forward, bridging the gap between both fields
• Foster community contribution, integrating feedback, and enable successful adoption of J.P. Morgan Personal Investing Design System
• Inspire visionary thinking by exploring what’s possible with J.P. Morgan Personal Investing. Stretching the system thoughtfully to empower designers to elevate craft and create with confidence and speed
• Uphold inclusive and accessible design as a non‑negotiable foundation
• Cultivate a team culture rooted in curiosity, mentorship, and shared ambition

Prior experience in managing a multi‑platform design system and a track record of solving complex design problems at scale

Qualifications

• Proven experience and a track record of solving creative design challenges across products or platforms
• A collaborative and open‑minded outlook, and a high degree of comfort working in a fast‑paced environment
• Creative and analytical skills to facilitate workshops and communicate insights that inspire design opportunities
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Mentoring and encouraging an inclusive, empowering environment for other designers to do innovative and impactful work
• Familiarity with some of the various engineering platforms and ecosystems (e.g. Android, SwiftUI, AppKit/UIKit, etc.)
• Familiarity with programming languages (Swift, HTML, CSS, etc.) and coding practices (git etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing accessible and inclusive interfaces for people with disabilities
• Understanding of applying WCAG conformance criteria in design, specifically testing comps, wireframes, and prototypes for accessibility standards

About J.P. Morgan Personal Investing

J.P. Morgan Personal Investing offers award‑winning investments, products and digital wealth management services to over 275,000 investors in the UK. We built the business with innovation as a core part of our ethos to give consumers the confidence and clarity to make informed investment decisions and achieve their financial goals.

About This Role

As a Design System Designer at J.P. Morgan Personal Investing, you are a creative and technically skilled professional with outstanding aesthetic judgment and a strong commitment to collaboration. Your craftsmanship, approach, and ability to build team spirit set a high bar for others. Your work not only delights customers but also inspires your peers, and you excel in environments where vision and execution are closely aligned. Your expertise in design systems, talent for elevating the work of others, and ability to tackle complex design and technical challenges will play a key role in driving J.P. Morgan Personal Investing DS next evolution. Our UX design team is at the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our clients. We're looking for people who have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative teams, and are passionate about customer experience. By their nature, our people are solution‑oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. We work in cross‑disciplinary teams to focus on specific products, projects and client journeys – and you'll have the opportunity to move between them.

Corporate Functions

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success. The Digital team is dedicated to creating innovative, industry‑leading products and experiences that help customers access, share and control their financial data so they can make smart decisions with their money. Teams enable innovation while adhering to the firm's data sharing principles of security, customer control and convenience, and privacy.