UI Designer; Design Systems

What you’ll do

• Hands‑on design: create design system components in Figma, demonstrating a strong understanding of interaction design and UI best practices.
• UI specialist: create high‑quality, responsive UI designs that balance usability, accessibility, and delighting user experiences.
• Maintain and manage the design system: produce component documentation and manage design tokens.
• Design‑system thinking: approach situations through a design‑system lens, considering reusability of design elements and contributing to our documentation.
• Design ownership and influence: contribute to the design‑system strategy across our platforms and support decision‑making at the team level.
• Collaboration:
  
  collaborate cross‑functionally and play a key role in nurturing team collaboration.
• Decision making: make informed decisions during the design process, balancing user needs, business considerations, accessibility compliance, and research guidance.
• Communication: effectively communicate your ideas and rationale to team members and stakeholders.

• A minimum of 4 years’ experience within a UX/UI role.
• Good working understanding of front‑end practices and atomic design principles.
• Excellent knowledge of Figma; confident using auto‑layout, components, variables and managing libraries.
• Creativity and curiosity.
• Strong communication skills and confidence in giving/receiving feedback.
• Comfortable juggling multiple priorities.
• A strong collaborative and iterative mindset.
• Good understanding or experience of designing with WCAG or A11y guidelines in mind.
• Nice to have: knowledge of Widgetbook, desire to mentor and guide junior members, understanding of user psychology.

• 25 days holiday, increasing with service + buy/sell scheme + bank holidays
• 6% Pension with matched contributions
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Share schemes (including free shares and BAYE)
• Health Cash Plan and discounted private healthcare
• Enhanced family leave (subject to qualifying criteria)
• Travel and bike loan schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme

We offer hybrid working, with a minimum of 50% of your working time per month spent in the office.

For new starters, there is an initial period of full‑time office working to help you settle in and build relationships.

We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and able to be themselves at work.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and make hiring decisions based on skills, experience, and potential.