Senior UI Designer

Superhero

Superhero

Design
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Posted on Jul 6, 2025
About Superhero

Superhero is an award-winning Australian superannuation platform and online broker built for the new generation of investors. Our mission is to make investing affordable, accessible and understandable for everyone.

Recognised as one of LinkedIn Australia’s Top Startups in 2022, Money Magazine’s Best of the Best Online Share Broker Award in 2022, 2023 and 2024, and Canstar’s Online Share Trading - Most Satisfied Customer Award in 2023, we’ve secured over $50m in funding and have more than $1 billion in assets under management.

Today, we’re proudly helping over 400,000 investors and superannuation members reimagine their financial future and feel confident about their wealth-building journey.

We're looking for a driven, customer-focused UI Designer to continue to manage our Design System, drive the design direction of our product suite and bring our research and wireframes to life. Together, we will empower individuals to make informed financial decisions and unlock their true investment potential.

About The Role

Joining at a pivotal time in Superhero’s growth, this role would suit a Mid-Senior UI Designer with an interest in the fintech space and being part of a dynamic, driven and supportive design team. You’ll be focusing on driving the visual direction for our products, maintaining and developing design systems and establishing best practices for the UI team. You’ll also be invited to be a part of the entire design process. Discovery to handover.

This is an exciting opportunity, while helping to build the next stage of Superhero’s evolution. This hybrid role is based from our Bligh St office, in the heart of Sydney’s CBD.

The Day-to-Day

  • Develop, grow and maintain our design system.
  • Take charge of the visual direction of Superhero's product suite (Investing, Superannuation and Adviser).
  • Create beautiful designs and flows for our app and website.
  • Participate in design reviews and present design concepts to stakeholders, providing clear rationales around your design decisions.
  • Iterate on designs based on feedback, data analysis, and evolving business objectives, continuously improving the user experience.
  • Work closely with developers to ensure accurate implementation of designs, providing design specifications, assets, and guidance throughout the development cycle.
  • Work closely with the product team, to prioritise and deliver UI work promptly.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in product and interface design.

About The Design Team

  • We’re a small but growing design team, who’s mission is to design the best investing, super and adviser product in the market while enjoying each other’s company.
  • We support each other’s ideas, goals, ambitions and caffeine habits.
  • We make decisions on the team's ways of working together, continuously iterating to make our processes more efficient, effective and enjoyable.
  • We work closely with the founders, and other key areas of the business including Customer Service and Marketing.
  • We advocate for our users and their goals, while balancing business needs.
  • Team members receive ongoing mentorship on the design area of their choosing and monthly 1:1 sessions with the Head of Design.
  • We enjoy team coffee dates and mark project milestones with lunches.

About You

  • You have proven experience in creating and maintaining design systems.
  • You can ideate and conceptualise the visual direction of Superhero’s web and native product suite.
  • You have experience designing excellent cross-platform products and features.
  • You have a clear handover process to front-end developers, providing support and documentation.
  • You love creating high fidelity designs, have a pixel perfect approach to all your work.
  • You have a meticulous approach to file hygiene.
  • You are articulate, and can present your design to small groups and major stakeholders and executives.
  • You have a portfolio that demonstrates your design process, problem solving skills and user-centric innovation.
  • You’ve reached expert level in Figma and Figma plugins.
  • You are a positive individual; embracing challenges and a range of design problems.
  • You have 3-5 years experience in UI design, bonus points if you’ve had experience working on a financial product.

Our Values

  • We do the right things, always: We lead with transparency and accountability and always do what’s right for our customers.
  • We’re never done: We have a bias for action and a hunger for growth.
  • There’s no ‘i’ hero: We’re team-first and believe in owning the problem and sharing our success together.
  • We innovate courageously: We start with “how” and “why not” and we don’t settle for the status quo.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and believe that different perspectives lead to better outcomes. If you're passionate, innovative, and aligned with our values, we're excited to have you on board. Help us shape the future of fintech investment and empower our clients to achieve their financial goals.

You will need to have the rights to legally work in Australia, sponsorship options are not available for this role.

Interested? Apply Now - we look forward to hearing from you. No recruiters, please.

This will be a 3 part process. An initial 30 minute interview with the Head of Design, a presentation of a case study or portfolio piece, and if successful, a quick chat with one of our co-founders.