Senior Designer – Online & App – Argos

Salary:
Competitive Plus Benefits

Location:

Manchester Store Support Centre and Home, Manchester, M4 3AL

Hours:

Full time
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 24 October 2026
Requisition :

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work.

We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

We are open to a Manchester, London or Coventry base for this role

At Argos, we’re on a mission to make shopping effortless, fast, and genuinely enjoyable whether customers are online, in-app, or standing in one of our stores.

We’re looking for a Senior experience designer to work across the Argos online end to end, shaping how millions of people browse, buy, and interact with Argos every day.

This is a role for someone who loves leading cross team initiatives, and projects working with diverse stakeholders and bringing designers together to create seamless digital experiences.

You’ll be working on Argos experiences across our website and app
. Leading new initiatives, optimisations and exploration of future thinking. We take 1.2 billion transactions from our customers each year, which gives you an idea of the scale and complexity of the space you’ll be working in. You’ll get to work on lots of new initiatives and work closely with our in-store teams to ensure a truly excellent end to end experience for our customers.

Supporting designers across the team, you’ll lead the discovery, design and testing of new ideas, your aim will be to understand our customers and the problems they face. You’ll drive consistency and alignment across the end-to-end experience whilst creating high quality experiences. The changes you make will impact millions of customers in for one of the UK’s largest retailers.

Industry experience as a UX or Product Designer is essential. As are the core technical skills outlined below. Alongside this, we’re looking for certain behaviours and competency skills. These skills will help you thrive in a dynamic team like ours.

• Ability to understand customers needs, business goals and emerging technology, bringing them together to design intuitive experiences for Argos customers
• Strong visual, interface and interaction design skills along with expertise in designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma to create complex prototypes, reusable components and scalable designs
• Capable of conducting research and analysing results, whilst understanding business context to create actionable next steps.
• Extensive knowledge of how to design inclusively and working with accessibility specialists and guidelines
• Ability to organise, create and facilitate engaging workshops with a diverse group of stakeholders at differing levels.
• Ability to leverage AI and new technology to improve the design process and move at a faster pace
• Be comfortable in leading and taking ownership across projects and initiatives. Bringing teams together to drive momentum, keep to strict timelines and keeping key stakeholders informed.

• Use initiative to take the lead on complex design solutions across end to end experiences whilst driving consistency and alignment
• Own and drive outcomes…