User Experience Designer

Location: Manchester (Hybrid UK-Based Role)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Sector: Digital Consultancy / Technology Consulting / User Experience (UX)

Our client is a growing digital consultancy that partners with organisations across the public and private sectors to deliver impactful digital transformation. By combining expertise in user-centred design, strategy, data, product development, and engineering, our client creates innovative digital services that improve user experiences and business outcomes.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a UX Designer to join a multidisciplinary team delivering digital products and services. This role is ideal for a design professional looking to further develop their career in a collaborative consultancy environment while working on meaningful projects that place users at the centre of every decision.

The successful candidate will take a pragmatic, evidence-based approach to creating intuitive, accessible, and engaging digital experiences, working closely with researchers, product teams, and developers throughout the design lifecycle.

• Collaborate with colleagues, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to identify user needs and business challenges.
• Apply user-centred design methodologies to define, design, test, and iterate digital experiences.
• Create wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that address specific user and business requirements.
• Develop design solutions that balance usability, accessibility, technical feasibility, and business objectives.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of digital products through iterative design and testing.

• Participate in user research activities and support the translation of insights into actionable design improvements.
• Use evidence and research findings to inform design decisions and prioritisation.
• Work closely with user researchers and service designers to understand user behaviours, needs, and pain points.
• Validate design concepts through testing and feedback.

• Contribute to and utilise design systems to ensure consistency, scalability, and quality across products and services.
• Ensure all designs comply with accessibility standards, including WCAG guidelines.
• Promote inclusive design principles to ensure products are accessible to diverse user groups.
• Advocate for best practices in usability, accessibility, and user-centred design.
• Facilitate design workshops, collaborative sessions, and design critiques to gather feedback and align stakeholders.
• Work closely with developers to ensure designs are clearly communicated and effectively implemented.
• Support multidisciplinary teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Contribute to agile delivery processes and iterative product development.

• Experience working in UX Design, Product Design, or UX/UI Design roles within agile delivery environments.
• Proficiency with industry-standard design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or similar platforms.
• User research integration
• Ideation and wire framing
• Prototyping and testing
• Strong understanding of User-Centred Design (UCD) principles and methodologies.
• Experience designing intuitive and accessible digital experiences.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience delivering projects within public sector environments.
• Familiarity with Government Digital Service (GDS) standards and service design principles.
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML and CSS to support collaboration with development teams.
• Experience creating high-fidelity prototypes or coded prototypes.
• Participation in design communities of practice, industry events, or knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Broader understanding of related disciplines such as:
• User Research
• UX Writing
• Service Design
• Content Design
• Product Design

Our client offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support career development, wellbeing, and work-life balance, including:

• Competitive salary with structured career progression opportunities.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• 25 days annual leave plus public…