Lead UI Designer

Futura Design; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design agency in the UK is seeking a Lead UI Designer to create visually engaging digital interfaces for automotive applications. The successful candidate will collaborate with UX Designers and developers, create design systems, and manage stakeholders. The role requires excellent creative and interpersonal skills, along with proficiency in tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite. This is a contract position until March 2026 with an umbrella pay rate of £52.54 per hour.

Qualifications

• Excellent creative acumen gained in agency and corporate settings.
• Demonstrable experience of crafting visually engaging interfaces.
• Deep understanding of visual identity principles of typography, layout, and colour.
• Automotive design experience is preferable.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Take creative direction and interpret brand principles across digital interfaces.
• Develop and maintain design systems, guides, and components.
• Work closely with UX Designers and Developers to ensure design vision delivery.
• Produce high-fidelity mockups and prototypes based on feedback.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across design functions.

Skills

Creative acumen

Stakeholder management

Strong interpersonal skills

Proficiency in Figma

Experience with Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Our OEM Client based in Gaydon, is searching for a Lead UI Designer to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a contract position until 31st March 2026.

Umbrella Pay Rate: GBP52.54 per hour.

The UI Designer is responsible for translating the brand principles into the creative vision for how digital turns up across the visual interfaces of the vehicle.

Working closely with UX Design as part of a design pair, the UI Designer shapes how our digital experiences look, feel and behave, and how this is eventually realised into production HMI and UI systems.

Key accountabilities:

• Take creative direction and interpret brand principles and apply the vision across digital interfaces.
• Develop and maintain design systems, guides and components.
• Work closely with UX Designers, UX Design Technologists and SW Developers to ensure the vision can be delivered.
• Ensure cross design discipline alignment and the integration of BI system design within the digital experience.
• Produce high-fidelity mockups and prototypes and iterate based feedback.
• Liaise and co-ordinate with creative operations, programme management and business operations teams to ensure content delivery timing can be supported.
• Stakeholder management across interdependent design functions.

Essential Skills:

• Excellent creative acumen gained in agency and corporate settings.
• Demonstrable experience of crafting visually engaging interfaces.
• Deep understanding of visual identity principles of typography, layout and colour.
• Automotive design experience is preferable.
• Creative sensitivity and understanding complex multi-disciplinary design projects.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to present complex information to all levels within the business.
• Comfortable working across different cultures, geography and time zones.
• Able to adapt to a fast-paced design environment.
• Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite etc.