Role
StarCompliance is seeking a Lead Design Engineer – AI Product Experience who will shape how user experiences are designed, prototyped, and delivered across our engineering organisation. This role is responsible for bringing together user experience design, frontend engineering, and AI-assisted development to create scalable product experience standards that can be consistently applied by both engineers and AI agents.
This is not a traditional UX design or UI engineering role. The successful candidate will operate as a highly technical, hands-on design engineering leader focused on evolving our design system for agentic consumption, creating working prototypes in place of static design handovers, and ensuring that accessibility, usability, and consistency are embedded directly into our frontend foundations.
The role will work closely with Software Engineering, Product, Architecture, Platform Engineering, and AI Enablement teams to establish reusable components, interaction patterns, agent instructions, and governance that support faster, more consistent, and increasingly autonomous product delivery.
At StarCompliance, AI is not a side experiment or an isolated specialist capability. We treat it as a foundational part of modern software engineering and SaaS platform development.
Apply AI to improve design quality, development velocity, automation depth, operational insight, and overall engineering effectiveness.
Ensure AI-generated outputs are validated, auditable, and compliant with security, privacy, and regulatory standards.
Design System & Frontend Foundations
Own the strategy, architecture, and ongoing evolution of StarCompliance’s enterprise design system, ensuring it supports consistent delivery across products and teams.
Define reusable components, design tokens, interaction patterns, application layouts, and accessibility standards.
Create clear documentation, examples, constraints, and validation mechanisms that enable reliable agent-generated user interfaces.
Design Engineering & Prototyping
Work with Product, customers, subject matter experts, and engineers to explore workflows, validate solutions, and improve concepts before production delivery.
Agentic Product Development
Create and maintain agent instructions, reference implementations, rules, and machine-readable context for frontend development.
Establish governance for agent-generated interfaces, including accessibility validation, visual regression testing, and component conformance.
Product Experience & Accessibility
Champion accessible and inclusive design, ensuring accessibility requirements are built into components, patterns, and automated validation.
Use customer feedback, product analytics, usability evaluation, and telemetry to improve product experiences.
Ensure delivery speed does not come at the expense of usability, consistency, maintainability, or user trust.
Technical Leadership & Governance
Lead the Design System Forum, bringing together Product, Engineering, and Architecture to govern shared standards and prioritise the continued evolution of the design system.
Lead and develop a blended team of UI Engineers across permanent and consultancy partner resources, with responsibility for performance, workload allocation, delivery, and capability development.
Experience creating or governing enterprise design systems, including component architecture, design tokens, and interaction patterns.
Knowledge of Storybook, visual regression testing, automated accessibility testing, and frontend quality tooling.
StarCompliance Background Checks
All positions require pre-employment screening due to employees potentially having access to highly sensitive and confidential information involving finance and compliance; candidates must be trustworthy and have a heightened sensitivity to protecting confidential financial, professional information. To be eligible for employment with StarCompliance, candidates must undergo a rigorous background investigation with checks including, but not limited to, criminal record history, consumer credit, employment history, qualifications, and education checks.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, marital/civil union/domestic partnership status, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by country, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organisation, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. StarCompliance makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. For more information, please request a copy of our Equal Opportunities Policy.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
