Role Overview
- The Platform Design Lead will collaborate across disciplines to enhance the scalability, usability, and consistency of ClearScore design system, internal tools, and documentation.
- Reporting to the Director of Platform Design, you ll play a critical role in shaping the future of design while mentoring others and supporting cross-functional success.
- This hands-on role sits at the heart of our Platform mission.
- You ll lead the design system that underpins all ClearScore features across iOS, Android, web, and internal platforms.
- You ll also guide content model development for our headless CMS and contribute to the design of internal tools.
- The role is based in either London or Edinburgh with flexibility in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
What You'll Do
- Lead, develop and mature the Design System
- Own the evolution, maintenance, and governance of ClearScore s design system to ensure scalable, reusable, and accessible design components.
- Create robust design libraries, empowering the design team to deliver high quality, consistent experiences across platforms.
- Work intensely with full-stack teams to build scalable solutions and ensure components are built to spec and efficiently integrated across platforms.
- Embed and champion system use across teams
- Be the go-to advocate for implementing and scaling the design system across products and missions.
- Mentor product designers and front-end engineers on best practices, contribution workflows, and component governance.
- Run knowledge-sharing sessions, create documentation and contribute to onboarding colleagues.
- Enhance internal tools and processes
- Partner with product, design, and engineering to improve tools (e.g. design tokens pipelines, CMS authoring interfaces) and workflows to accelerate delivery.
- Contribute to our headless CMS strategy, particularly around content model design and scalability.
- Strategise with senior leaders as we evolve internal tools and technologies.
- Drive strategic alignment
- Partner with senior leaders on the Platform vision and ensure the design system supports business goals, user needs, and technical scalability globally and across verticals.
- Align design system evolution with emerging platform architecture (e.g. SDUI, token pipelines)
About You
- Design expertise
- Proven experience building and governing multi-brand, multi-platform (iOS, Android, web) design systems.
- Able to audit, refactor, and componentise legacy UI for reuse across products and platforms.
- Strong portfolio showcasing intuitive, responsive, accessible, and scalable interfaces.
- Expert-level Figma skills, especially with Tokens Studio and component architecture.
- Leading within a strong cross-functional Platform team is a bonus.
- Technical Skills
- Comfortable working with front-end frameworks and tooling: GitHub, JSON, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin.
- Familiarity with SDUI architectures and how design tokens and UI components map to server-driven schemas.
- Experience contributing to or owning a headless CMS content model is a strong plus.
- Leadership and Collaboration
- Confident leading cross-functional design initiatives and mentoring colleagues.
- Skilled at planning, prioritising, and scoping system and tooling work - including collaboration with engineers and PMs.
- Able to clearly present rationale, align stakeholders, and influence decision-making across disciplines.
- Strategic Thinking
- Strategic mindset and ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term system health.
- Proactive in identifying industry trends, competitor activities, emerging technologies, and opportunities for design system evolution and innovation.
Benefits
- 25 paid holidays and a 7 duvet day8 on your birthday
- Hybrid Work Environment
- Private health and dental cover - including mental health support through Bupa
- GP office visits
- Life assurance scheme
- Up to 6% matched pension
- Regular Lunch and Learns with guest speakers
- Dog-friendly office
- Daily breakfast and free snacks
- Access to discounts via Cobens Extras
- Free sports and social clubs
- Continued investment into learning and development
- Leadership-led training
- In-house psychotherapist
- Financial coach to help you plan and achieve your goals
- No clock-watching culture
- Generous maternity and paternity plans
- Culture and inclusion representatives
- Transparent pay structure and a career growth plan
Hybrid Work Model
- Minimum 2 days per week in-office for Levels 1-5
- Minimum 3 days per week in-office for Level 6 and above
- Flexibility to manage work and life balance
- Dedicated in-office days to support team building and collaboration
- Office facilities designed for productive interactions
- Commitment to hybrid schedule important for culture and performance
