Design intuitive, user-first digital product experiences from validated hypotheses through engineering handoff. Create wireframes, interaction flows, polished UI, and scalable component-based designs across platforms. Maintain Figma architecture, design libraries, and visual guidelines. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and designers on research, prototyping, usability testing, QA, and implementation reviews. This is a remote, 12-month maternity-cover contract requiring immediate or near-immediate availability and UK work authorization.
Contract type: 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract (Maternity Leave Cover)
Location: Remote
Reports to: Head of Design
Start date: Beginning of October. Applicants must be available immediately or with a notice period of a month or less
Interview process:
- Application deadline: 14th September 2026
- Initial HR intro call: 16th - 18th September 2026
- Interviews: 21st - 24th September 2026 (possible extension to 1st October)
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a hands-on, execution-driven Mid-Level UX/UI Designer to join our growing product team on a 12-month fixed-term maternity leave cover. This role is focused on building and owning the end-to-end UX workflow: transforming validated product hypotheses into intuitive, high-quality interaction designs that meet real user needs.
You'll focus on translating well-defined product problems into clean, usable, component-based designs. You'll work closely with PMs and engineers to ensure we deliver intuitive, usable solutions—fast, consistently, and with craft. You'll also help strengthen our philosophy of simplicity by applying core UX principles to improve usability across the product.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Design execution and craft
- Translate user needs and validated product ideas and requirements into wireframes, flows, and polished UI components
- Own the design process from concept through handoff to engineering, ensuring clarity, consistency, and usability
- Build UX that scales—your work should hold up across mobile and desktop, new users and power users, in any language
- Work within and contribute to an evolving component-based design system
- Conduct or support user research and usability testing; synthesize insights into actionable improvements
Design process and infrastructure
- Establish and maintain a structured Figma workspace and design architecture
- Build out a scalable design library and visual style guide to ensure design consistency that aligns with brand guidelines
- Collaborate with other designers and engineers to evolve and optimize how we work and document design decisions
Cross-functional collaboration
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers to deeply understand the problem and shape problem statements and solution spaces
- Work directly with engineers to ensure accurate implementation of your designs
- Participate in design iterations, rapid prototyping, user testing, QA handoffs, and cross-functional reviews
Requirements
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of experience designing digital products or SaaS applications
- Strong interaction design skills and deep understanding of usability best practices
- Fluency in Figma and component-driven design systems
- A portfolio that demonstrates the ability to translate product intent into functional, user-first design
- Comfortable managing own workload and maintaining velocity in a remote, async team
- Comfortable testing and using AI solutions to accelerate design
- Must have an existing suitable homeworking set-up in place
- Must have the right to work in the UK (we are unable to offer sponsorship)
- Must be available immediately or with a notice period of a month or less
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in EdTech, education platforms, or creator tools
- Familiarity with implementing and documenting design libraries
- Experience working closely with PMs and engineers in delivery-focused environments
- Understanding of user-centred design, user testing, rapid prototyping, and QA workflows
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
- You prioritize usability and optimal user experience in your design
- You consistently deliver high-quality UX work across product surfaces
- You contribute to a clean, maintainable Figma environment alongside an organization-wide design system
- You ensure consistent branding throughout the end-to-end user journey
- Engineers rely on your specs and annotations to build efficiently
Benefits
- 30 days' holiday per year (inclusive of UK bank holidays)
- 100% remote working #LI-Remote
- Social events and annual meet ups
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