[Hiring] Senior UX/UI Designer @Leighton

Role Description

The Role involves using a range of research, testing, and validation techniques to shape concepts and improve designs from the earliest stages.

• Work alongside researchers and wider product teams to turn customer feedback, research findings, and behavioral insight into clear design opportunities.
• Test assumptions and hypotheses throughout the design process, ensuring decisions are grounded in evidence rather than opinion.
• Combine qualitative research with product data and customer behavior to understand pain points and identify areas for improvement.
• Own the design of end-to-end digital experiences, considering the complete customer journey rather than individual screens or features.
• Translate complex requirements into clear user journeys, information architecture, wireframes, interaction models, and user flows.
• Take ideas from early concepts and sketches through to well-defined, intuitive digital experiences.
• Design with the wider ecosystem in mind, understanding how individual journeys connect across different products, services, and digital channels.
• Work closely with Product, Research, and Engineering teams to balance user needs, commercial priorities, and technical feasibility.
• Use research insights, behavioral trends, and product performance data to guide design decisions and prioritization.
• Partner with Product Managers and Product Owners to identify opportunities, influence product direction, and establish measures of success.
• Ensure experiences meet appropriate accessibility, usability, and inclusive design standards.
• Create high-fidelity interface designs and interactive prototypes in Figma, turning UX concepts into polished digital experiences.
• Use prototypes to explore different approaches, communicate interaction behavior, and test ideas before development.
• Design responsive experiences for web and mobile, considering different screen sizes, devices, platforms, and accessibility needs.
• Refine designs through an iterative process, incorporating user testing, stakeholder input, and feedback from development teams.
• Create and apply reusable components, interaction patterns, and design standards that improve consistency across products.
• Contribute to the continued development and adoption of design systems and component libraries.
• Work closely with developers to ensure designs are practical to implement and that the finished product reflects the intended experience.
• Champion strong standards across visual design, interaction design, accessibility, and overall design quality.
• Work as part of a cross-functional product team, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and other Design specialists.
• Clearly communicate design thinking and rationale, using research, customer insight, and data to support recommendations.
• Facilitate collaborative sessions and design discussions to explore problems, generate ideas, and build alignment.
• Contribute throughout the product lifecycle, from discovery and problem definition through to design, validation, and delivery.
• Help create a consistent customer experience across products by championing shared design principles, patterns, and ways of working.

Qualifications

• Strong experience across UX, Product, or UI Design within digital products and services.
• Experience translating user research, testing, customer insight, and data into practical design solutions.
• Proven ability creating customer journeys, user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI designs, and interactive prototypes.
• Advanced experience with Figma, including responsive web/mobile design and prototyping.
• Experience using and contributing to design systems, component libraries, and reusable patterns.
• Strong understanding of accessibility, inclusive design, and user-centered design principles.
• Comfortable working in Agile, cross-functional teams, collaborating with Product, Research, and Engineering from discovery through to delivery.

Behaviours

• An open and genuine communicator.
• Able to take responsibility for your actions.
• Always learning and wanting to improve.
• Takes responsibility for own development.
• Love what you do.
• Value and support your team.
• Embrace who you are.
• Open-minded and willing to explore new ideas.

Benefits

• A competitive salary, dependent on experience.
• A contributory pension scheme.
• Private healthcare.
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday.
• A flexible approach to working hours.
• Continuous personal development, career path, and training.
• And more...