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’.