Mid-Level UX/UI Designer – Maternity Leave Cover

United Kingdom
Freelance
Remote Within Region
Posted 2 weeks ago

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📋 Description

  • 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 across mobile and desktop, new users and power users, and 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
  • Establish and maintain a structured Figma workspace and design architecture
  • Build a scalable design library and visual style guide aligned with brand guidelines
  • Collaborate with designers and engineers to optimize workflows and document design decisions
  • Collaborate with Product Managers to understand problems and shape problem statements and solution spaces
  • Work directly with engineers to ensure accurate implementation of designs
  • Participate in design iterations, rapid prototyping, user testing, QA handoffs, and cross-functional reviews

🎯 Requirements

  • 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
  • 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

🏖️ Benefits

  • 30 days' holiday per year (inclusive of UK bank holidays)
  • 100% remote working
  • Social events and annual meet ups

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Benefits & Perks

Remote-friendly
30 days paid holiday
Company retreats
Social events

Recommended Skills for this Position

Interaction Design
Design Systems
User-Centered Design
User Research
Usability Testing
Wireframing
Designer-Developer Handoff
Rapid Prototyping
Responsive and Adaptive Design
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Iterative Design
Visual Design
AI-Assisted Design Workflow
Mobile UX Design
Design Communication
Remote and In-Person UX Work

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