Summary
Stu Charlton is an Experience Strategy Director with 12 years’ experience leading multidisciplinary design teams to simplify Financial Services products and meet regulatory obligations. Based in Bristol, he has grown and managed teams of up to 25 researchers and designers while owning P&L, capability building, wellbeing, and business strategy at cxpartners. He sets vision for UX in complex domains—investing, insurance and lending—championing inclusive design and Consumer Duty compliance to solve real-world vulnerabilities. A hands-on former agency founder and technical lead, he brings deep front-end and design-systems experience, instilling quality, performance and accessibility standards across large programmes. His background in running a specialist frontend studio and co-founding a boutique web agency means he balances strategic leadership with practical delivery chops.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer