Staff UX Designer

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Vacancy Name

Vacancy Name Staff UX Designer

Employment Type

Employment Type Permanent

Location

Location London

Role Details Look at the latest headlines and you will see something Ki insures. Think space shuttles, world tours, wind farms, and even footballers' legs.

Ki's mission is simple. Digitally disrupt and revolutionise a 335-year-old market. Working with Google and UCL, Ki has created a platform that uses algorithms, machine learning and large language models to give insurance brokers quotes in seconds, rather than days.

Ki is proudly the biggest global algorithmic insurance carrier. It is the fastest growing syndicate in the Lloyd's of London market, and the first ever to make $100m in profit in 3 years.

Ki's teams have varied backgrounds and work together in an agile, cross-functional way to build the very best experience for its customers. Ki has big ambitions but needs more excellent minds to challenge the status-quo and help it reach new horizons.

We're looking for a specialist Staff Designer who will conceptualise and deliver our design systems across the whole business' technology estate. You will play a critical part in amplifying the impact of experience design alongside cross-functional software engineering teams to as part of a multi-year strategy.

Principal Accountabilities:
• Design Systems Strategy and Execution: Define our multi-year design and front-end strategy ensuring the system will function for and make a positive impact on all of our products and platforms, both broker-facing and internal.
• Collaboration with Engineering: Working alongside software engineers and engineering leadership to ensure there's alignment and high quality deliverables, meeting accessibility guidelines and modern best practice for front end frameworks.
• Establish, systematise, and hold the quality bar: Through relationship building, an acute aesthetic sensibility and formidable attention to detail you will re-establish, define and own the experience quality of our products, helping other teams roll out improvements at high velocity.
• Inspire partners and stakeholders: Drive the discussion, with stakeholders across the business, of how our front-end systems and strategy will most meaningfully create innovation platforms and move the business towards its goals.
• Communicate effectively: Proactively communicate progress against milestones, commercial impact and supporting the team's cultural values.

Skills and Experience:
• You've successfully delivered design systems and front-end frameworks, particularly in enterprise or B2B settings
• You have a track record of turning design work into scalable systems and components that drive real business results
• You're highly technical and detail-oriented, from atomic-level precision to big-picture brand strategy
• You love mentoring other designers and engineers who share your passion for UI frameworks and design systems
• You've faced setbacks and learned valuable lessons from them
• Curiosity drives you, and you're always eager to explore and learn
• You thrive in ambiguity and focus on solving real, meaningful problems
• You communicate clearly and confidently, even when engaging with senior stakeholders
• You're proactive, pragmatic, and take initiative without waiting to be asked