Lead Design Engineer UX/UI and AI

StarCompliance; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

StarCompliance is seeking a Lead Design Engineer – AI Product Experience to shape how user experiences are designed, prototyped, and delivered across our engineering organisation.

This highly technical, hands-on design engineering leadership role will drive the evolution of our design system for agentic consumption and ensure accessibility, usability, and consistency are embedded in our frontend foundations.

Qualifications

• Role is a highly technical, hands-on design engineering leadership position.
• Evolves design system for agentic consumption.
• Creates working prototypes in place of static handovers.
• Ensures accessibility, usability and consistency in frontend foundations.

Responsibilities

• Shape how user experiences are designed, prototyped, and delivered across the engineering organisation.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering, Product, Architecture, Platform Engineering and AI Enablement teams to establish reusable components and interaction patterns.
• Define governance to support faster and more autonomous product delivery.

Skills

Design system

Frontend engineering

AI-assisted development

Accessibility

Job description

Role

StarCompliance is seeking a Lead Design Engineer – AI Product Experience who will shape how user experiences are designed, prototyped, and delivered across our engineering organisation. This role is responsible for bringing together user experience design, frontend engineering, and AI-assisted development to create scalable product experience standards that can be consistently applied by both engineers and AI agents.

This is not a traditional UX design or UI engineering role. The successful candidate will operate as a highly technical, hands‑on design engineering leader focused on evolving our design system for agentic consumption, creating working prototypes in place of static design handovers, and ensuring that accessibility, usability, and consistency are embedded directly into our frontend foundations.

The role will work closely with Software Engineering, Product, Architecture, Platform Engineering, and AI Enablement teams to establish reusable components, interaction patterns, agent instructions, and governance that support faster, more consistent, and increasingly autonomous product delivery.

How We Think About AI

At StarCompliance, AI is not a side experiment or an isolated specialist capability. We treat it as a foundational part of modern software engineering and SaaS platform development.

We expect engineers to:

• Actively use AI-assisted engineering tools as part of their daily workflows.


• Apply AI to improve design quality, development velocity, automation depth, operational insight, and overall engineering effectiveness.


• Ensure AI-generated outputs are validated, auditable, and compliant with security, privacy, and regulatory standards.

StarCompliance Background Checks

All positions require pre-employment screening due to employees potentially having access to highly sensitive and confidential information involving finance and compliance; candidates must be trustworthy and have a heightened sensitivity to protecting confidential financial, professional information. To be eligible for employment with StarCompliance, candidates must undergo a rigorous background investigation with checks including, but not limited to, criminal record history, consumer credit, employment history, qualifications, and education checks.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, marital/civil union/domestic partnership status, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by country, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organisation, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. StarCompliance makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. For more information, please request a copy of our Equal Opportunities Policy.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.