Digital Design Lead

Digital Design Lead | Wealth Management Platform

12-Month Contract | Melbourne | Hybrid

An opportunity has opened for an experienced Digital Design Lead to step into a high-impact leadership role within a large-scale wealth management platform environment. This contract role will see you leading an established UX design team while shaping the next phase of design maturity across a complex, advisor-facing digital ecosystem.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in design leadership, enjoys working closely with product and engineering teams, and brings deep experience designing B2B platforms within regulated financial services environments.

The Opportunity

As the Digital Design Lead, you'll take ownership of the UX/UI vision across a market-leading digital platform used daily by financial advisers. You'll lead a team of designers, set clear design direction, and embed strong design systems and ways of working across the product lifecycle.

While this role is strategic and people-focused, you'll remain close enough to the work to provide guidance, review outputs, and ensure high-quality, consistent design outcomes. You'll also play a key role in evolving design practices, including the rollout of a new design system and the responsible adoption of AI-enabled design and delivery tools.

What You'll Be Doing

Design Leadership & Team Enablement

• Lead, coach and develop a team of UX designers, building capability, confidence and consistency

• Set clear expectations, provide design direction, and review work to ensure quality outcomes

• Foster strong collaboration between design, product and engineering teams

• Embed user-centred design thinking into day-to-day delivery

Design Systems & Governance

• Lead the establishment and governance of a Material Design-based design system

• Ensure design standards are embedded into in-house product development workflows

• Drive consistency across complex digital experiences while balancing business and user needs

• Educate stakeholders on design principles, standards and best practice

End-to-End Design Delivery

• Own design outcomes from discovery through to implementation

• Partner closely with in-house product managers and engineers to ensure designs are feasible and delivered as intended

• Improve handover processes and reduce friction between design and development

Stakeholder Engagement & Influence

• Act as a trusted design voice across the organisation

• Influence senior stakeholders on UX and design decisions

• Navigate competing priorities while maintaining momentum and quality

• Support change management as new systems and ways of working are adopted

Customer & Advisor Experience

• Champion customer-centred design for external, B2B users

• Engage directly with financial advisers to understand real-world workflows and needs

• Strengthen research and usability testing practices and translate insights into clear design direction

Future-Focused Design

• Support the evolution of design and delivery through AI-enabled tools and workflows

• Bring curiosity, ideas or hands-on exposure to AI-assisted design, research or development

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience leading and developing UX or digital design teams

• Strong background designing B2B digital platforms, ideally advisor- or enterprise-facing

• Experience working in-house alongside product managers and software engineers

• Hands-on experience establishing, scaling and governing design systems

• Strong understanding of end-to-end digital product delivery

• Ability to influence without authority in complex, regulated environments

• A collaborative, pragmatic leadership style with a contractor mindset

Industry experience in wealth management, financial advice, fintech or similar B2B domains is highly regarded.

Why This Role?

• High-impact leadership role with real autonomy

• Opportunity to shape design maturity, systems and ways of working

• Exposure to major digital platform transformation initiatives

• Strong partnership with experienced product and technology leaders

• Direct engagement with real users in the financial advice community

If you're excited by this opportunity, please click APPLY to submit your application. For a confidential discussion, please reach out to Agnes at jbarker@parityconsulting.com.au.

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