UX, UI Product Designer

Exciting opportunity for an UX, UI Product Designer to join this global Energy company for a 6- 12 month initial long term contract. 3 days a week in the London office.

This is an exciting time to join this world-leading Energy company as it evolves from a traditional Oil & Gas enterprise into a future-focused Energy leader. This transformation includes the establishment of a highly successful new Power Trading desk within the Energy Trading team and ventures into cutting-edge solutions that address the evolving demands of the Energy sector. These initiatives include advanced Gas infrastructure, LNG technology, effective Energy Storage systems and Green Energy solutions.

• At least 6 years’ experience across UX, UI or product design, with exposure to the full design lifecycle across operational or enterprise environments
• Confident working across discovery, definition and delivery – from research and ideation through to execution and developer handoff, even in unfamiliar or high-complexity domains
• Able to produce journey maps, UX flows, wireframes and both low- and high-fidelity prototypes to communicate intent and align teams around design direction
• Strong proficiency in Figma and FigJam, including working with design systems and interactive prototyping in collaborative workflows
• Bring professionalism and composure to complex projects, and be able to navigate demanding environments, communicate clearly and build credibility with colleagues across domains
• A strong portfolio demonstrating thoughtful problem-solving, strong design craft and impact – ideally in contexts like data-rich tools, workflow design or operational systems
• Solid understanding of usability and accessibility standards (such as WCAG and ISO 9241), and how to apply them to complex, high-density interfaces
• Proactive and accountable, you take ownership of your work, manage ambiguity and push things forward without needing close direction
• Comfortable facilitating workshops and co-design sessions to help trading users, business analysts and stakeholders clarify complex problems in high-pressure and time-sensitive contexts
• Experienced in planning and conducting research and usability testing, including with specialist users like traders, risk analysts or operations teams
• Pragmatic and delivery-aware, able to balance user needs with business goals, tech and regulatory constraints, and shifting priorities
• Driven by delivering meaningful outcomes, you focus on creating value for both users and the organisation, and use design to bridge gaps in intricate, fragmented systems
• Able to collaborate confidently with trading users, stakeholders, business analysts and developers to shape and iterate solutions in environments where accuracy, speed and alignment are critical
• Strong analytical thinking skills – able to understand and improve service-level or process-level flows in multi-system or cross-team environments
• Willing to support more junior team members through peer mentoring, feedback and collaborative working
• Contribute to improving team practices and ways of working, helping to evolve how we design and deliver in complex, multi-stakeholder settings
• Build a solid understanding of the trading domain; able to design with awareness of key processes, data flows and the operational realities users face

Key Skills

• Design Thinking
• UX/UI design
• Figma
• User journey mapping

This needs combining with a positive attitude and an ability to work within a large, globally dispersed project team in a multi-cultural environment. You also need to be a self-starter, a logical thinker and a quick learner, with strong initiative and excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, able to write clearly and concisely.

We believe in equality of opportunity for all job applicants regardless of gender, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, creed or religion, disability, sexual orientation or age.

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