Excellent contract job opportunity for Senior Product Designer

We are seeking an experienced Senior Product Designer to join a fast-paced digital product team on an initial 3-month contract. This role will focus on creating intuitive, user-centred digital experiences across web and mobile platforms, combining user research, UX design, UI design, and collaborative product delivery.

Location: Waterside (UB7 0GB) (2 days onsite)

Contract Length: 3 months initially

Pay -: attractive daily rate (inside IR35)

User Research & Insight

• Support research activities, usability testing, and discovery initiatives to understand customer needs and behaviours.
• Analyse research findings and translate insights into actionable design recommendations.
• Collaborate with researchers, product teams, and stakeholders to validate assumptions and support evidence-based decision-making.
• Use customer feedback, behavioural data, and product metrics to inform design solutions.

UX & Product Design

• Design end-to-end user journeys and digital experiences across multiple channels.
• Create information architecture, user flows, wireframes, and interaction designs.
• Develop customer journey maps and service blueprints to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Balance customer needs, business goals, and technical constraints when designing solutions.
• Apply systems thinking to ensure a seamless experience across products and platforms.
• Partner with Product Managers and Product Owners to shape product strategy, prioritisation, and success metrics.

UI Design & Prototyping

• Produce high-fidelity designs and interactive prototypes using Figma.
• Create responsive designs for web and mobile applications across multiple devices and screen sizes.
• Iterate designs based on stakeholder feedback, user testing, and delivery requirements.
• Contribute to design systems, component libraries, and reusable design patterns.
• Champion accessibility, consistency, and design quality across all digital products.

Delivery & Collaboration

• Work closely with Product Owners, Developers, Researchers, and Scrum teams throughout the product life cycle.
• Facilitate workshops, design reviews, and collaborative design sessions with stakeholders.
• Clearly communicate design rationale and recommendations using customer insights and product data.
• Support user acceptance testing, design assurance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Use collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Teams.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Product Designer, UX Designer, or Digital Product Designer.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design and user-centred design methodologies.
• Expertise in UX design, information architecture, interaction design, and user journey mapping.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma for wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity design.
• Experience conducting or supporting user research and usability testing.
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.
• Experience working within Agile product development environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and workshop facilitation skills.
• Familiarity with design systems and component-based design approaches.

Desirable

• Experience designing for large-scale digital products or customer-facing platforms.
• Knowledge of service design methodologies.
• Experience working with cross-functional product, engineering, and research teams.
• Understanding of data-driven design and experimentation approaches.

What You'll Bring

• A passion for creating exceptional user experiences.
• Strong problem-solving and systems-thinking abilities.
• Confidence in collaborating with diverse stakeholders and influencing product decisions.
• The ability to work independently and deliver high-quality design outcomes in a fast-moving environment.

If you're a talented Senior Product Designer looking for your next contract opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.