About the Client
Digital Skills are working with a large software and travel business, delivering digital experiences across the traveller journey. The client is looking for an experienced Senior Designer to support multiple product teams working on initiatives that connect ground transport experiences with the wider travel ecosystem.
About the Role
This is a 6-month contract for a Senior Designer who can work autonomously across multiple product initiatives in a fast-paced environment. You will own design delivery across several projects, combining hands-on product design with user research and testing to ensure solutions meet both traveller needs and commercial objectives.
Responsibilities
- Own design delivery across multiple product initiatives and work simultaneously with at least two product teams
- Work with Product Managers, Engineers, Designers and commercial stakeholders to understand priorities and shape solutions
- Run user research and testing to validate design decisions
- Present research findings and design recommendations to product, engineering and commercial stakeholders
- Create high-quality design assets, prototypes and supporting documentation
- Advocate for user needs and design quality alongside business metrics
- Apply established design systems, brand standards and accessibility principles
- Support experiences that connect the traveller journey across different products, tools and external platforms
- Communicate clearly and effectively across teams, including through asynchronous working
Desired Skills and Experience
- Strong experience in Product Design/Digital Design
- Excellent User Research and User Testing experience
- Comfortable working autonomously and delivering at pace within a contract environment
- Strong experience creating design assets and prototypes using Figma
- Experience working across multiple product teams and initiatives simultaneously
- Confident presenting research, designs and recommendations to a diverse stakeholder group
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior product and cross-business stakeholders
- Good understanding of modern design practices and accessibility principles
- Experience working with design systems and brand standards
- Familiarity with AI-enabled design tools, including Figma AI features and Claude
- Travel or booking industry experience would be advantageous, but is not essential
Summary of the Best Candidate
The ideal candidate will be an experienced Senior Designer with a strong combination of hands-on digital product design, user research and user testing skills. You will be comfortable owning design work independently while collaborating closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Designers and commercial stakeholders across several concurrent initiatives.
You will be particularly well suited to the role if you have experience working within large-scale digital products or complex customer journeys, can move confidently between research, testing, prototyping and delivery, and are comfortable operating at pace across multiple product teams. Strong Figma skills, stakeholder management and clear asynchronous communication will be important to succeeding in the role.