Lead Digital and Graphic Designer
•HmgroupHybrid· 14h
🎨 Design⏰ Full-time🎯 Lead / Principal🇬🇧 London, UK
14h ago
Zopa·2 days ago
The Experience Design team is responsible for shaping the end-to-end customer experience across Zopa’s products. Within the team, the Design Systems function provides the foundations that allow product teams to move quickly while delivering consistent, high quality experiences.
We’ve recently rebuilt our design system as part of our move to native, giving us a strong foundation for the future rather than a large legacy estate to untangle. This role is an opportunity to lead that next phase. You’ll own the design system as a strategic platform, helping us scale delivery, improve consistency, strengthen governance and unlock new ways of working through AI-assisted design and development.
You’ll lead a small team and work closely with Product, Engineering and Design leaders to ensure the design system becomes a core enabler of how Zopa builds products in the years ahead.
Lead and develop a team consisting of a Design Systems Designer and Motion Designer
Define and evolve the governance, processes and operating model for Zopa’s design system
Partner closely with Mobile Engineering to ensure design and code systems remain aligned
Collaborate with Product, Design and Brand stakeholders on system adoption and evolution
Review and prioritise requests for new patterns, components and system enhancements
Define and track measures of system health, adoption, consistency and impact
Help product teams move faster by creating scalable, reusable foundations
Balance hands-on design systems work with strategic leadership and organisational influence
Shape how AI-enabled workflows can leverage the design system to improve delivery speed and quality
Drive consistency across customer experiences while making thoughtful trade-offs where needed
You’ve led a design system or platform design capability within a product organisation
You bring strong systems thinking across tokens, components, patterns, documentation and governance
You have experience partnering closely with Engineering and understand how design systems translate into code
You’re comfortable working across native mobile experiences
You’ve managed and developed designers and enjoy building high-performing teams
You use evidence and measurable outcomes to guide prioritisation and decision making
You’re confident setting boundaries, making trade-offs and influencing senior stakeholders
You can balance technical depth with strong communication and stakeholder management
You’re able to bring clarity and direction in environments that contain ambiguity
You combine strategic thinking with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset
Familiarity with design-to-code pipelines and token architecture
Experience embedding accessibility standards within design systems
Practical experience using AI or automation to improve design workflows
Experience with tools such as Figma MCP, Claude or ChatGPT
Experience in scaling organisations that have grown through multiple stages of maturity