Lead UI/UX Designer

This role designs user interfaces and experiences for a robo-advisor and new products across web services and mobile applications. As a lead member, the designer is responsible for maintaining design quality across projects and improving the workflows and quality of team-based design work. Depending on experience and interests, the role may also cover corporate branding, marketing-related web and graphic design, and promotional materials.

Responsibilities include defining product information structures, user interfaces, visual tone and manner, and creating UI designs and mockups. The designer visualizes user experiences through quantitative and qualitative research, including competitor research, and contributes to concept development, information architecture, and product improvement initiatives. Additional work includes web, graphic, logo, visual, and promotional-material design; support for marketing initiatives; tone and manner guidelines; photography; and direction of external partners.

The role also operates and improves the design system, manages design assets, improves the efficiency of design work, and supports designer development. The design team has eight employees. Designers work closely with business and development teams on service launches and improvements. The team is also involved in new product initiatives and a planned digital bank project being pursued jointly with Mitsubishi UFJ Bank. The company develops and operates a fully automated asset-management service and is expanding toward a broader financial platform covering areas such as life insurance, pensions, and home loans.

Applicants must have at least five years of UI design experience for web services or mobile applications, as well as experience leading design for a large-scale website or mobile application. A portfolio is required. Preferred experience includes leading the construction of a design system, developing service concepts, designing graphics or promotional materials in branding-related work, conducting UX research, and developing other designers. No specific educational qualification or technology stack is stated.

The position is a full-time employee role in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Annual compensation is JPY 7,000,000 to JPY 10,000,000, paid monthly in 12 installments under an annual salary system. Working hours use a flextime system with core hours from 10:00 to 16:00 and a 60-minute break. The work arrangement combines at least three days per week in the office with working from home, subject to some assignment-based exceptions. Holidays include Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, year-end and New Year holidays, and other company-designated leave. Annual paid leave is granted from joining, with 15 days in the second year and 20 days from the third year; leave can be taken in one-hour units.

Benefits include social insurance, a corporate defined-contribution pension, a commuting allowance for direct employees under company rules, a massage room, office convenience facilities, some free drinks, and influenza vaccinations. Development support includes subsidies for professional and technical books, certifications, external training, and seminars. Employees may choose a Mac or Windows computer, subject to some assignment exceptions. The selection process consists of document screening, approximately two or three interviews with employees and executives, and an offer, although the process may change.