UX Designer

Role Overview

• As a UX Designer at UW you take ownership of design delivery within your product area.
• You work closely with your squad to create meaningful and cohesive user experiences, growing your confidence in managing end-to-end design work from discovery and concepting to delivery and iteration.
• You work collaboratively with product and engineering partners, balancing user needs with business goals.
• You seek and give feedback regularly, contributing to maintaining quality across the team.
• You conduct research: You independently create research plans and conduct usability tests to validate design solutions with real users.
• You synthesize research findings into actionable insights and clearly articulate user problems to your product team, ensuring design decisions are grounded in evidence.
• You build an understanding of your product area, user needs, and business context, ensuring you understand how your work contributes to broader business goals.
• You apply design processes (like the Triple Diamond) and know when to adapt them to meet project deadlines.
• You use prototypes to validate or disprove ideas quickly, exploring directions through user testing.
• You create clean, logical, and accessible designs that follow usability best practices.
• You ensure UI accessibility through color contrast, clear typography, and distinct interactive states.
• You produce thorough and complete work, with edge cases fully thought out.
• You communicate interactions and handoff details clearly to engineers, helping bridge the gap between design and development.
• You proactively seek feedback from relevant designers throughout your design process and ensure your work is visible within the UX and product teams.
• You contribute positively to the team culture, learning from feedback and modeling our values.

Requirements

• Technical Mastery: Middle-weight UX/ Product Designer with a solid understanding of full-cycle user-centred design (Research, UX & UI)
• Best-in-class design, wireframe (low and high fidelity) and prototyping skills
• Solid experience of using Figma
• Focuses on delivering work that contributes to team and business goals
• Effectively collaborates with Product and Engineering teams to deliver work on time and in scope
• Able to clearly demonstrate your process, methodology and approach to UX design strategy
• Independently drives projects and tasks to completion
• Experience of working with customer acquisition journeys in high volume, consumer services domains
• Balances design decisions based on user and business needs.

Benefits

• Competitive salary: We benchmark against the industry and will share the salary openly during our first conversation.
• Performance bonus: An annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%.
• Flexible working: We’re a remote-first business.
• Work-life balance: We offer an optional four-day working week (90% pay for 90% impact).
• Work from anywhere: You can work abroad for up to three weeks, twice every tax year.
• Holiday: 25 days plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure), with the option to trade up to five days each year.
• UW discounts: Save on our services and get a free Cashback Card.
• Future planning: Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance (up to 4x salary).
• Family first: Policies designed to help you and your family thrive.
• Flexible benefits: An allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership.
• Sabbaticals: An eight-week paid sabbatical after four years of service.
• Growth: A dedicated learning and development budget and bi-annual promotion cycles.
• Inclusion: Join belonging groups that help shape our culture.
• Events: Company-wide celebrations including the ‘Great Big Get Together’ and our ‘Good Hearted Go-Getter Awards’.