Lead UI Designer
Posted 4 days ago by Jobserve
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London
Summary: Lead UI Designer required to enhance user experience and increase conversion rates within a cross-functional creative team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in E-commerce and a passion for UI design, focusing on creating digital brand identities and responsive interfaces. This role involves leading a team of designers and effectively communicating design processes to clients. The position emphasizes design excellence, collaboration, and a systematic approach to meet both user and business needs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create digital brand look and feel, design systems, and pixel-perfect responsive interfaces.
- Ensure usability and accessibility standards are met while addressing user and business needs.
- Lead and support multiple designers, elevating the UI Design offering.
- Communicate the design process clearly to clients from concept to solution.
- Anticipate future needs and build in flexibility and efficiency in design.
Key Skills:
- Demonstrable eCommerce experience.
- Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Detail-oriented with a strong sense of craftsmanship.
- Leadership skills to guide and inspire designers.
- Ability to manage projects and work under tight deadlines.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Lead UI Designer needed to work at the forefront of digital design, working within a cross-functional creative team design to improve user experience and ultimately increase conversion.
The opportunity:
We are looking for an ambitious, confident, detailed oriented UI Design Lead who wants to work at the forefront of digital design, working within a cross-functional creative team design to improve user experience and ultimately increase conversion.
This role is ideal for a strong individual, who has experience working in E-commerce, who is passionate about UI design. Someone that thinks conceptually and leads the execution of online visual identity as well as being skilled in conversion-led design for transactional websites.
What you'll be doing:
Creating digital brand look and feel, design systems and pixel perfect responsive interfaces for key clients, ensuring you consider usability and accessibility standards, and that you meet both user and business needs. You'll take a systematic approach to design, anticipating future needs and building in flexibility and efficiency.
Your work will be of the highest standard and will impress clients. You will be able to showcase a portfolio of online experiences across the whole customer journey. You will lead and support multiple designers and have the experience to elevate and strengthen our UI Design offering.
You can clearly and persuasively communicate the design process to clients from concept to solution, proactively owning problems and feedback.
What we want from you:
- Design excellence and leadership:
- Demonstrable eCommerce experience.
- Skilled in standard software: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite
- Creative, yet meticulous. Detail oriented with a keen sense of craftsmanship.
- Enjoys leading designers to help them create their best work.
- Willing to adapt and take on new challenges and driven to continually improve.
Brand and design systems
- Experience creating, evolving and developing brand identity.
- Understand and able to create and theme design systems for brands that we work with.
- Systematic approach to work, anticipating future needs for clients and customers.
- Keen collaborator with software engineering.
Approach
- Great attitude, strong work ethic, excellent communication skills.
- Ability to manage own projects and to work quickly and accurately to tight deadlines.
- Able to multi-task and perform well under pressure.
- Excellent time management and problem-solving abilities.
Presentation
- Leads design on key accounts with senior stakeholders, presents concepts and owns design decisions.
- Senior representative of the UI & Content team within agency.
- Comfortable pitching as part of a wider team.
- Enthusiastic, self-confident and self-motivated.
Experience
- Experience working at a number of digital/creative agencies and/or in-house design studios.
- Degree educated in Graphic design/UI or similar discipline.
- Breadth of experience across sectors/audiences.
- Compelling portfolio that demonstrates high quality design online, including eCommerce
What we can offer you:
Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we'll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We'll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.
Permanent only:
We offer a great benefits package including a discretionary bonus scheme, training opportunities, competitive pension, medical insurance, life assurance, social events, opportunities to buy and sell holidays, family friendly policies, discounts with hundreds of retailers and much more.
Our culture thrives on our core values, designed for impact-driven individuals: Heart, Brains and Courage.
We lead with Heart, fostering empathy and trust where genuine connections and human-centric work flourish.
We empower your Brains for innovation, valuing relentless curiosity and collaborative intelligence to solve complex challenges.
And we champion Courage, inspiring you to speak up, embrace experimentation, and advocate for bold solutions that push our thinking to be better than yesterday.