Designer

Zuto; Manchester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension & life cover

Health plan

Discounts on lifestyle, restaurant &购物

Cycle to work scheme

GP Anytime service

Health cash back plan

Job summary

Zuto in Manchester City Centre is seeking a versatile Designer to shape how the brand looks, feels and communicates across every customer touchpoint.

You’ll work with Product, Marketing, Partnerships and Commercial to create high-quality visual experiences, evolve our design system, and enable the business to scale design with speed and quality, empowered by AI tools.

Qualifications

• Proven experience creating high-quality digital and visual design across multiple channels.
• Strong visual design skills and exceptional attention to detail.
• Experience building, maintaining or working within design systems.
• A strong understanding of branding, visual communication and customer experience.
• Confidence working across Product, Marketing and Commercial environments.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Willingness to use AI tools to accelerate design workflows.

Responsibilities

• Creating high-quality visual assets across digital products, marketing campaigns, partnerships and customer communications.
• Ensuring every customer-facing experience reflects the Zuto brand.
• Translating brand into clear, engaging visual experiences.
• Evolving visual standards, patterns and assets for quality and consistency.
• Maintaining a high standard of craft across all deliverables.
• Building and championing a scalable design system across teams.
• Creating reusable components and templates to accelerate work.
• Establishing design standards that can be adopted company-wide.
• Helping teams use the design system effectively while maintaining consistency.
• Evolving the system as the company grows to support speed and quality.
• Using AI tools to accelerate design production and content creation.
• Exploring AI capabilities to improve quality and delivery speed.
• Establishing AI-native workflows for a lean team.
• Reducing repetitive design work to free time for high-value thinking.
• Collaborating with Product, Marketing, Partnerships and Commercial teams.
• Advocating for customer-centered design and high-quality execution.
• Contributing to a stronger design culture as the company grows.

Skills

Digital design

Visual design

Design systems

Branding

Collaboration

Multi-project management

AI fluency

Job description

Designer

Location: Manchester City Centre

Who We Are

Join our team of passionate Zutonites and help transform the car finance experience with simplicity and integrity.

Since our journey began in 2006, we’ve grown to a team of over 550 people all driven by a shared purpose: to make buying a car transparent and hassle-free.

We know how important cars are in people’s everyday lives, for work, family and freedom, and that’s why we’re proud to help hundreds of thousands of customers every year. From day one, we’ve been redefining what success looks like, creating something special at Zuto: a business that leaves a lasting, positive legacy.

If you’re passionate about great design and want the opportunity to influence how a fast-growing brand looks, feels and communicates, you’ll fit right in. You’ll work across the business to make sure every interaction customers have with Zuto feels consistent, considered and unmistakably us.

The Role

As our Designer, you’ll play a key role in shaping how Zuto looks, feels and communicates across every customer touchpoint.

Working across Product, Marketing, Partnerships and Commercial, you’ll create high-quality visual experiences while helping us build the systems and standards that allow great design to scale across the organisation.

A major part of your role will be evolving and embedding Zuto’s design system, creating reusable assets, components and patterns that allow teams to move faster without sacrificing quality or consistency.

You’ll also use AI as a force multiplier in your day-to-day work, exploring how emerging tools can accelerate production, improve consistency and enable our design capability to have an even greater impact.

Success isn't about how many assets you produce. It's about how consistently great the Zuto experience feels, wherever a customer interacts with us.

What you'll be Doing

Brand & Visual Design

• Creating high-quality visual assets across digital products, marketing campaigns, partnerships and customer communications.

• Ensuring every customer-facing experience consistently reflects the Zuto brand.

• Translating our brand into clear, engaging and recognisable visual experiences.

• Continuously evolving visual standards, patterns and assets to improve quality and consistency.

• Maintaining a high standard of craft and attention to detail across everything we create.

Design Systems & Enablement

• Building, maintaining and championing a scalable Zuto design system across Product, Marketing and Commercial teams.

• Creating reusable components, templates and assets that allow teams to deliver great work faster.

• Establishing clear design standards and best practices that can be adopted across the wider organisation.

• Helping teams use our design system effectively while maintaining consistency.

• Evolving the system as Zuto grows, ensuring it continues to support both speed and quality.

AI-Enabled Design

• Using AI tools day-to-day to accelerate design production, content creation and asset generation.

• Exploring emerging AI capabilities that can improve design quality, consistency and delivery speed.

• Helping establish AI-native design workflows that allow a small team to have an outsized impact.

• Identifying opportunities to reduce repetitive design work and create more time for high-value creative thinking.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partnering closely with Product, Marketing, Partnerships and Commercial teams on new initiatives and campaigns.

• Supporting teams in applying Zuto’s design principles consistently and effectively.

• Working collaboratively to turn ideas and commercial opportunities into high-quality customer experiences.

• Acting as an advocate for customer-centred design and high-quality execution across the business.

• Helping build a stronger design culture as Zuto continues to grow.

What you'll Need

We’re looking for a versatile Designer who combines strong creative craft with commercial awareness, collaboration and a genuine obsession with quality.

You’ll need:

• Proven experience creating high-quality digital and visual design across multiple channels.

• Strong visual design skills and exceptional attention to detail.

• Experience building, maintaining or working within design systems.

• A strong understanding of branding, visual communication and customer experience.

• Confidence working across Product, Marketing and Commercial environments.

• The ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong collaboration skills and the confidence to influence people without needing formal authority.

• High personal standards and genuine pride in producing exceptional work.

• A proactive mindset and the desire to help shape and scale a design culture within a growing business.

AI Fluency

AI is becoming a fundamental part of how our Growth and Design teams operate, so we're looking for someone who is already comfortable using it as part of their creative process.

You'll be actively using AI to accelerate workflows, generate assets and content, explore ideas and increase design velocity, while continuing to explore new tools and capabilities that could improve how we work.

We want someone who sees AI as an opportunity to spend less time on repetitive production and more time creating brilliant work.

Why Join Zuto?

At Zuto, we don’t just talk about supporting our people, we live it. Here’s what makes being a Zutonite so special:

Financial Wellbeing

• Pension scheme, life assurance & income protection

• Free independent financial advice

• Lifestyle, restaurant & shopping discounts

• Cycle to work scheme

Physical & Mental Wellbeing

• GP Anytime service for you and your family

• Health cash back plan & access to wellbeing apps

• Discounted gym memberships and free digital fitness classes

Family Friendly

• Enhanced caregiver leave (primary & secondary)

• Flexible and shared parental leave

• Fertility and foster-friendly policies

Culture & Perks

• Birthdays off and volunteer days

• Bring your dog to work and enjoy free in-office massages

• Regular social events from team nights out to hikes, to sports clubs and more

• Regular gifting and celebrations throughout the year

Zuto is committed to nurturing a progressive and inclusive culture and provides equal employment opportunities. No applicant or Zutonite is discriminated against based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.