Graduate UX Designer

Industry Placements; Wallsend; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Industry Placements as a Graduate UX Designer and kickstart your design career! You'll work within an innovative team, creating global products through engaging design. This two-year program offers extensive learning opportunities, allowing you to immerse yourself in user-centric design while making a real impact.

Benefits

Conditional bonus

Flexible holiday allowances

Great pension

Healthcare cash plan

Volunteer days

Dedicated learning days

Funding for professional development

Qualifications

• Recent graduate in a relevant design discipline.
• Demonstrated user-centricity with design projects.
• Keen to work in a team and contribute to various design facets.

Responsibilities

• Engage in interaction design for products across platforms.
• Collaborate with teams to translate designs into reality.
• Contribute to the company’s Design System and iterate on designs.

Skills

User-centricity

Design thinking

Business orientation

Data-informed mindset

Effective communication

Attention to detail

Problem-solving

Education

Relevant degree discipline

Job description

Graduate UX Designer

Looking to kick start your design career? Want to own the design of global products and sites? See your designs through to launch and beyond? Make a real difference to hundreds of thousands of users?

We're looking for Graduate UX Designers to join the team. In this two-year programme, you’ll join a team of talented, innovative, fresh-thinking designers - part of a rich global community of Accessibility Specialists, Content Designers, User Researchers, analysts and developers.

You’ll take an active role in the interaction design of our products, with the freedom to do the best work of your career

Key Responsibilities

Your two years will look something like this…

• Set up your new MacBook Pro.
• Discover the breadth and depth of the products and sites you’ll design for - in the cloud, desktop, tablet, and mobile.
• Join us at the cutting edge of discovering what AI can do for our users, and for us as designers.
• Immerse yourself in our Design System, define improvements, and get them published.
• Iteratively design end-to-end experience for big-ticket product features.
• Get to know our customers and users by name - meet entrepreneurs and some incredible small businesses.
• Engage with talented developers to make your designs reality, and collaborate on our Development Framework, Carbon.
• Continue your self-development – with dedicated learning days, and funding for professional development as part of our Ignite Graduate Programme.
• Make a difference to the communities we live and work in with 5 volunteer days every year.
• Enjoy benefits like conditional bonus, flexible holiday allowances, a great pension, and a healthcare cash plan.

About You

We’re interested in talented interaction designers who deliver effective solutions, and delightful experiences. If you’re ambitious enough to deliver the best in the market, but keen to truly understand and empathise with the real-life needs of users, step this way!

To be eligible for this role, you'll need to be a Graduate, ideally in a relevant discipline. Whilst we’re open to any degree discipline, you’ll need to demonstrate user-centricity, ideally with great balance of design thinking, business orientation and a data-informed mindset.

Alongside this, you'll be

• A team player, willing to contribute to multiple facets of design.
• A keen eye for detail and an inquisitive mind to help solve problems.
• You’ll be resilient and determined, able to work in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• As part of a global business, you’ll be an effective communicator, able to collaborate with people from across the world.

These roles are based in our Newcastle office. You’ll be in the office at least 3 days a week so will need to live in (or be willing to relocate to) an easily commutable distance.

What you can expect from the process

1. Apply online with CV

2. Complete psychometric screening and video interview

3. If successful at video interview stage, you will be invited to attend an assessment centre.

4. Successful candidates will join us on 1 October 2025

Please note that due to the high volume of application, there will be a delay in receiving a response from your video interview. We thank you for your patience.

Here at Sage, we are committed to inclusivity for all, so if there any adjustments that would help you thrive in the application process or beyond, please reach out to us [e-mail]

About Sage

People make Sage great. From our colleagues delivering ground-breaking solutions to the customers who use them, people have helped us grow for more than thirty years, and people are driving our future as a great SaaS company. We’re writing our next chapter. Be part of it!

Experience has taught us that when our customers thrive, we thrive. As a team, we always start with what customers need. Through the good… and more challenging times. Innovating at pace so customers can manage their finances, operations and people. Every one of us shapes our culture at Sage - doing what’s right and succeeding together, united by our commitment to each other. We encourage each other to grow in our roles, in our careers and as individuals.

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button.

Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.