Middleweight UX​/UI Designer

This is a full-time role based in Leeds, UK. We offer hybrid working and flexible hours to everyone in the team, but this is not a fully remote opportunity, and we require you to be in the office at least 3 days aweek.

As part of our commitment to making Engage a great place to work, we've built a comprehensive benefits package that fuels our thriving culture and delivers an exceptional, well-rounded employee experience. Some of our most popular perksare:

• Company performance linked bonus scheme (this is depending on the business' performance and is not a contractualbenefit)
• 5% company pension scheme
• Access to financialcoaching
• A company culture that promotes work-life balance
• Access to mental healthsupport
• Free on-sitegym
• An award-winning office
• Your birthday off
• Regular socials, epic Summer parties andmore…

As a Middleweight UX/UI Designer at Engage, you will create high-quality, user-centred digital experiences across our Web and Activation propositions.

Reporting to our Senior UX/UI Designer, You will combine strong UX thinking with polished UI design, translating user needs, business objectives, research and technical requirements into clear journeys, intuitive structures and engaging digital interfaces.

The role will primarily support Web projects and retainers, with additional involvement in interactive and campaign-led Activation work. You will take ownership of agreed UX/UI work from early discovery and definition through to wire framing, prototyping, high-fidelity design, developer handover and quality assurance.

We're looking for someone who can strengthen the team's research-led UX capability, particularly across customer journeys, information architecture, navigation and content structure. You should also be confident producing high-quality responsive UI and developing scalable design systems, components and reusable patterns.

You will work closely with designers, developers, project managers, account teams and clients. You will be expected to manage your own delivery, explain the rationale behind your decisions and identify risks or opportunities early.

This role will help provide greater specialist ownership across Web and Activation, improve the consistency and resilience of our UX/UI delivery, and reduce reliance on senior team members for day-to-day production, intervention and quality assurance.

• Deliver high-quality UX and UI design across Web and Activation projects, from early thinking through to final design and handover.
• Translate briefs, research, user needs and commercial requirements into clear and practical digital experiences.
• Plan and create customer journeys, user flows, sitemaps, information architecture and content structures.
• Produce wireframes and interactive prototypes that clearly communicate structure, functionality and intended behaviour.
• Design polished, responsive and accessible interfaces that align with client brands and project objectives.
• Conduct or contribute to customer research, stakeholder interviews, competitor reviews, journey audits and usability testing.
• Turn research, analytics and user insight into clear design recommendations and prioritised opportunities.
• Build and maintain scalable design systems, reusable components and consistent interface patterns in Figma.
• Apply accessibility and inclusive-design principles throughout the design process
• Work closely with developers to ensure proposed designs are practical, responsive and technically achievable.
• Prepare clear and complete design handovers, including responsive behaviours, component states and interaction requirements.
• Review implemented work and support design quality assurance throughout development.
• Present work confidently to internal teams and clients, explaining the thinking and evidence behind design decisions.
• Proactively seek feedback at appropriate stages and use it to improve the quality and effectiveness of the work.
• Review your own work against the brief, user needs, commercial objectives and Engage's quality standards before seeking sign-off.
• Support lower-risk UX/UI reviews and provide constructive feedback to other designers.
• Stay informed about relevant UX methods, UI patterns, accessibility requirements, platform developments and emerging technologies.

• Provide consistent UX/UI ownership across agreed Web and Activation retainers
• Identify proactive opportunities to improve customer journeys, usability, accessibility, conversion and overall digital performance.
• Work with account and proposition teams to turn opportunities into clear, commercially appropriate recommendations.
• Contribute to journey audits, usability reviews, competitor analysis and optimisation roadmaps.
• Support conversion rate optimisation activity, experimentation and A/B testing where appropriate.
• Use available analytics, performance data and user behaviour insights to inform design decisions.
• Help establish repeatable UX/UI approaches, frameworks, templates and services across the Web and Activation propositions.
• Contribute to the…