We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer (6 Month Fixed Term Contract) to help deliver a number of key initiatives across the Betashares Direct roadmap. This is an opportunity to make an immediate impact, working on meaningful customer problems and shaping experiences that help Australians invest with confidence.

Role Responsibilities

- Drive end-to-end product design across key initiatives, from discovery and problem definition through to delivery and optimisation.
- Design intuitive, high-quality customer experiences across mobile and web that balance customer needs, business goals and technical considerations.
- Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Researchers and Growth teams to identify opportunities, validate solutions and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Use customer insights, research and product data to inform design decisions and continuously improve user experiences.
- Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity designs that clearly communicate concepts and interactions.
- Contribute to and evolve the Betashares Direct design system, improving consistency, scalability and quality across the product.
- Advocate design excellence by bringing strong visual craft, attention to detail and customer-centric thinking to every project.
- Support a culture of experimentation, innovation and continuous improvement across the product organisation.

Key skills and experience

Must-haves:

- Proven experience designing and delivering digital products within cross-functional product teams.
- Strong end-to-end product design capability, from discovery and ideation through to delivery and iteration.
- Exceptional UX/UI skills, with a portfolio demonstrating strong product thinking, problem solving and design execution.
- Proficiency in creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity designs using modern design tools.
- Experience collaborating effectively with Product, Engineering, Research and business stakeholders.
- Familiarity with design systems and reusable component libraries.
- Curiosity and willingness to leverage emerging technologies, including AI-assisted design workflows, to improve ways of working.
- An interest in investing, financial wellbeing and creating products that help customers build long-term wealth.

Nice to have:

- Experience working in fintech, financial services, investing, banking or other regulated industries.
- Knowledgeable in Figma <> AI coding workflows.
- Robust analytics knowledge across Google or Adobe Analytics, Amplitude or similar platforms.
- Experience ideating, designing and interpreting results of A/B tests on B2C products.
- Experience working in high-growth product, startup or scale-up environments.

Description

The Cadmus platform shapes how millions of students and tens of thousands of academics experience assessment. That is a massive design challenge that goes well beyond wireframes; it requires taking dense institutional workflows and transforming them into interfaces that feel fluid, intentional, and beautiful.

Cadmus is built on the proposition that design is the mechanism of academic integrity. When software is designed beautifully, users trust it implicitly and engage with it deeply. We believe that complex educational software shouldn’t look or feel like a legacy spreadsheet—it should possess the polish, tactility, and visual magic of the world's finest prosumer tools.

We are looking for a Senior Product Designer who is a master of their digital craft.



You are someone who bridges the gap between deep systems thinking and elite visual execution. You will own core platform areas end-to-end, raising the aesthetic and interaction bar across the entire Cadmus ecosystem.

What Success Looks Like

In your first year, you will have:

- Elevated the product’s aesthetic and perceived value: You will lead the evolution of the Cadmus design system, introducing a level of visual polish, type hierarchy, and spatial layout that elevates the entire brand. The product won't just function better; it will look and feel premium.
- Injected delight into dense academic workflows: You will take inherently dry workflows—like assessment grading, rubric creation, and analytics tracking—and turn them into visually stunning, tactile, and rewarding user experiences.
- Ensured the “magic” survives production: You will work in lockstep with engineers to ensure that your exact visual intentions—from micro-interactions and transitions to precise border radiuses and padding—are implemented flawlessly in production. The gap between your Figma file and live code will approach zero.
- Balanced high craft with pragmatic shipping: You raise the visual quality bar without relying on speculative, unbuildable concepts. You make deliberate trade-offs, delivering improvements that are both breathtakingly polished and highly practical to build.
- Introduced user insights through a design lens: You conduct research that surfaces non-obvious insights about how students and academics interact with the UI, using those insights to solve complex usability problems beautifully.

Requirements

Who You Are

- 8+ years of experience designing complex SaaS, B2B2C, or premium prosumer digital products.
- Impeccable visual taste. You obsess over the fundamentals: typography scales, precise grid systems, subtle gradients, drop shadows, intentional negative space, and responsive layout flows.
- A portfolio that screams “execution.” Your portfolio showcases live, shipped products that demonstrate incredible attention to detail, modern UI aesthetics, and micro-interactions. We want to see how your designs move, feel, and reacts.

Systems & Interaction Design

- A systems thinker who loves component architecture. You don't just build pages; you build living design systems. You care deeply about states, variables, tokens, and making a design system highly scalable for engineering.
- Mastery of information architecture. You know how to bring clarity to data-dense interfaces without oversimplifying them or hiding utility behind endless dropdowns.

Execution & Collaboration

- Strong product judgment. You know when to fight for a pixel-perfect interaction and when to make a deliberate trade-off to ship a feature.
- Deep engineering alignment. You speak the language of front-end developers. You understand HTML/CSS behaviors, flexbox layouts, and technical constraints, and you use that knowledge to push the boundaries of what can be built beautifully.

What This Role Is Not

- Not a template or kit-bashing job: We aren't looking to just drop in a stock UI kit.



We want a designer who brings bespoke visual excellence and unique creative flair to our product.
- Not a concept-only or illustration role: You won’t be designing speculative, unbuildable concepts or marketing landing pages. You’re shipping functional, high‑fidelity UI for a core application.
- Not a standard UX‑research role: While you will talk to users, your primary output is high‑fidelity execution. We need a builder, not a pure strategist.
- Not detached from engineering: Your designs need to be practical, buildable, and developed in close, daily collaboration with engineering.

Benefits

WORKING AT CADMUS

- Work Your Way: We have a flexible, hybrid culture, with 2 anchor days weekly in our Melbourne HQ for when we need to collaborate in person, and the freedom to work from anywhere the rest of the week.
- Real Ownership: You will have a major say in our architecture and our product roadmap.
- Career Growth: We focus on mentoring and planning for your future so you can grow along with the company.
- Inclusive Environment: We value different backgrounds and perspectives. If you love education and technology, you will belong here.

Job Description

As Product Design Lead, you’ll lead a team of Product Designers and shape the design strategy across multiple products and member journeys. Working across Product, Engineering and broader stakeholder groups, you’ll elevate design quality, strengthen ways of working and ensure accessible, consistent and member‑centred experiences are delivered at scale.

In this role, you’ll:

- Lead design strategy across products and journeys, aligning member needs with business and organisational priorities.
- Translate strategic objectives into clear design direction and deliverables across multiple teams.
- Lead, coach and develop a high‑performing team of Product Designers.
- Establish and embed design principles, standards and best practices to improve quality and consistency.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, CX, Brand and business stakeholders to integrate design throughout the end‑to‑end delivery process.
- Improve design processes, workflows and systems, including the use of reusable patterns and scalable design practices.
- Champion accessible, compliant and member‑centred design, ensuring outputs meet WCAG 2.1 AA and organisational standards.

What you’ll need

- Proven experience leading design strategically across multiple products, journeys or teams.
- Strong people leadership capability, including coaching, development and design critique.
- Demonstrated success improving design quality and consistency at scale.
- Solid knowledge of user‑centred, research‑led design and design systems.
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments and partnering closely with Product and Engineering.
- Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and communication skills, with experience in financial services or another regulated environment viewed favourably.

Life at AustralianSuper

AustralianSuper is committed to colleague development, offering learning, coaching and career opportunities across our growing organisation. We support flexible, blended working and are happy to discuss what this looks like for you.

We cultivate a workplace that champions safety, respect, inclusiveness and diversity. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or role, please let our recruitment team know.

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