UX Designer - AI RegTech, SC Ventures

Standard Chartered; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an ambitious new venture at Standard Chartered that leverages AI to enhance regulatory navigation in financial services. As a Senior Engineer, you will lead the evolution of the platform, ensuring seamless user experiences, optimizing microservices workflows, and automating testing processes. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing team.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible working options

Core bank funding for retirement and insurance

Generous time-off policies including sabbaticals

Proactive wellbeing support programs

Continuous learning culture for growth

Inclusive and values-driven organization

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing digital products.
• Strong focus on solving real user problems and delivering measurable impact.
• Passion for continuous learning and design innovation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of the platform by simplifying user journeys and optimizing workflows.
• Transform innovative ideas into scalable code and automate CI/CD to testing.
• Ensure the quality, speed, and reliability of the microservices architecture.

Skills

User research

Wireframing

Prototyping

Usability testing

Design systems

Accessibility standards

Responsive design

Agile methodology

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Education

Degree in UX/UI Design or Human-Computer Interaction

Job description

Job Summary

We’re an ambitious new venture backed by leading investors and operating at the intersection of AI, regulation, and financial services. Our focus is on reimagining how institutions navigate regulatory complexity — using cutting-edge technology to bring clarity, speed, and confidence to critical decision-making processes.

While still early in our journey, we’re already working closely with a select group of enterprise clients and partners who share our belief that modern compliance needs a fundamentally different approach. Our team brings together deep domain expertise, product thinking, and a bias toward building — fast.

We’re at an exciting inflection point – with clear direction, client focus and a fast-growing team. You’ll be joining us as we lay the foundations of a new venture designed for long term impact across financial services

• We believe speed comes from quality, automation, and solving the right problems.
• We always leave things better than we found them.
• We start with the end in mind.
• We iterate quickly.
• If you build it, you fix it.
• We trust each other and ask for help.
• If you’re in a hole, stop digging

• We achieve product-market fit through user-centered design and rapid prototyping.
• User satisfaction and engagement increase as our interfaces become more intuitive.
• Our design system is robust, consistent, and accelerates feature delivery.
• Accessibility and usability are core to every release.

Key Responsibilities

We are looking for someone to lead the evolution of our platform by simplifying user journeys, optimizing microservices workflows, and extending our domain model into a cutting-edge knowledge graph.

As a Senior Engineer, you are accountable for the quality, speed, and reliability of our microservices architecture, ensuring seamless user experiences and robust data security. You will transform innovative ideas into scalable code, automate everything from CI/CD to testing, and solve real customer problems at scale

Skills and Experience

• Degree in UX/UI Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or equivalent experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing digital products.
• Proficiency in user research, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.
• Deep understanding of design systems, accessibility standards, and responsive design.
• Comfortable working in agile teams, collaborating with engineers and product managers.
• Strong focus on solving real user problems and delivering measurable impact
• Passion for continuous learning, feedback, and design innovation.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thingand are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle,continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together,we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter,we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-offincluding annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills,global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning cultureto support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation,one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.