Contract UX / Product Designer

McShannock Design Limited.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 34,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

McShannock Design Limited. is a UX and product design studio partnering with startups to craft thoughtful digital products and user experiences. This part-time freelance role suits someone who thrives on early ideas, evolving platforms, and fast-moving startup environments.

You'll work closely with founders, product teams, and engineers to shape user journeys and polished product interfaces, with a focus on web apps, SaaS dashboards, and data-driven interfaces.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing digital products or SaaS platforms.
• Confident working in Figma with modern design systems.
• Ability to move from concept to high-fidelity UI.
• Clear thinking around UX, interaction design, and information hierarchy.
• Comfortable working directly with founders or small product teams.
• Ability to work independently and manage your time.

Responsibilities

• Design intuitive product experiences for web platforms and SaaS tools.
• Turn product ideas into user flows, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Create high-fidelity UI designs in Figma.
• Contribute to or extend existing component libraries and design systems.
• Collaborate with founders, product managers, and engineers.
• Think through complex product problems and simplifying them for users.
• Present design work and explain decisions clearly.

Skills

UX Design

Product Design

Figma

Design Systems

Information Architecture

Prototyping

Tools

Figma

HTML/CSS

Job description

Commitment: Part-time (approx. 2-3 days per week)

About McShannock Design

McShannock Design is a UX and product design studio working with startups and growing companies to design thoughtful, user-focused digital products.
We partner with ambitious teams to turn ideas into real products. From early concept and user journeys through to high-fidelity interfaces and design systems. Most of our work sits in SaaS, fintech, and AI-driven platforms where clarity, usability, and speed of iteration matter.

We keep things small, collaborative, and focused on quality. No unnecessary process, just good design thinking and close collaboration with product teams.

The Role

We’re looking for a contract UX / Product Designer to collaborate on a range of client projects. This is a part-time freelance role, ideal for someone who enjoys working across early product ideas, evolving platforms, and fast-moving startup environments.

You’ll work closely with founders, product teams, and engineers to shape user journeys and craft polished product interfaces. Most projects involve designing web apps, SaaS dashboards, and digital products where usability and clarity are key.

This role is flexible and remote, but we’re ideally looking for someone available for 2–3 days per week on an ongoing basis.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing intuitive product experiences for web platforms and SaaS tools
• Turning product ideas into user flows, wireframes, and prototypes
• Creating high-fidelity UI designs in Figma
• Contributing to or extending existing component libraries and design systems
• Collaborating with founders, product managers, and engineers
• Thinking through complex product problems and simplifying them for users
• Presenting design work and explaining decisions clearly

What We’re Looking For

• Strong experience designing digital products or SaaS platforms
• Confident working in Figma with modern design systems
• Ability to move comfortably from concept to high-fidelity UI
• Clear thinking around UX, interaction design, and information hierarchy
• Comfortable working directly with founders or small product teams
• Ability to work independently and manage your time well

Nice to Have

• Experience designing fintech, AI, or data-heavy platforms
• Experience building or contributing to design systems
• Understanding of front-end constraints (HTML/CSS or component-based systems)
• Experience working in startup environments
• Experience working with AI tools such as Claude Code to build clickable prototypes

Why Work With Us

• Interesting product and startup projects
• Direct collaboration with founders and product teams
• Opportunity for longer-term collaboration as the business grows