Global Head of Design

ION; London; On-site; GBP 200,000 +; Full time

Job description

The Role:

We’re seeking an energetic design leader with team management experience and a drive to innovate. As Global Head of Design, you will lead and manage a global creative team of designers across the US, UK, Europe, and India.

Your responsibilities will include implementation and evolution of visual identity for ION, a large and complex organization comprised of hundreds of acquired brands. To manage this, you should have extensive experience creating, evolving, and maintaining corporate design systems.

The ION Design team, working across ION at Group level, upholds a cohesive design strategy for events, client experiences, marketing campaigns, print, web and mobile, and technical documentation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish objectives for the year ahead and plan SMART goals
• Define value engines and playbooks to ensure efficient collaborative design systems
• Use our workflow management platform to delegate assignments and communicate with collaborators and stakeholders
• Work with cross-functional teams, collaborating with designers, marketers, and product owners
• Provide design assets for multi-channel content that translates our marketing narratives into communications that resonate
• Responsible for design templates, consistency, deadline management, and quality of output in accordance with corporate standards

Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

• 7+ years working as a design manager in a corporate environment.
• Fluent in English, both speaking and writing
• Strong foundation with the fundamentals of graphic design, including typography, grid systems and layout, UI/UX, accessibility
• Advanced understanding of working within design systems and brand guidelines
• Experience designing for print, including knowledge of print-specific considerations
• Experience designing for the web, including working with developers
• Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud
• Experience with a workflow management platform such as Optimizely CMP, Jira, or similar
• Information architecture and wireframing for web projects
• Knowledge of interaction design best practices and UI/UX conventions
• Proficiency with Figma a plus

About ION:

We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.

Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.

Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure.

ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group with 13,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe.

ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.

ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.