Chief Design Officer

About the Role

The Chief Design Officer will own product design quality across the group's consumer products and brands. This is a hands-on design leadership role with direct involvement in our most important products and user experiences.

What you will be doing

• Set the design direction and quality bar across group products.

• Work directly on or review critical user journeys, product concepts and interfaces.

• Turn complex financial and AI workflows into simple consumer experiences.

• Set standards across product design, interaction, visual design and design systems.

• Review shipped products and identify specific usability and design problems.

• Work with product and engineering from early concepts through production.

• Recruit and assess senior product, UI and brand designers.

What you will need

• Strong portfolio of shipped consumer technology products with meaningful usage.

• Deep product and interaction design capability, not primarily people management.

• Strong visual judgement and attention to interface details.

• Ability to prototype and communicate product interactions directly.

• Experience working closely with product and engineering on shipped products.

• Hands-on design style - able to create, critique and materially improve design work directly.