Lead UI/UX Designer

Parcks Inc.; Brighton; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential + equity stake

Brighton flagship office

Job summary

Parcks Inc. is seeking a Lead UI/UX Designer to translate our sovereignty-focused philosophy into intuitive experiences. You will shape how users discover, control, and trust our software, from encrypted messaging to local data ownership.

This role blends product leadership with hands-on design across the Parcks ecosystem. You will establish a unified design language, mentor designers, and advocate accessibility, usability, and elegant interaction.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in UI/UX design.
• Proven experience leading complex digital products.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating interaction design and visual thinking.
• Deep understanding of information architecture, interaction design, usability, design systems, accessibility, and HCI.
• Ability to transform complexity into simplicity.

Responsibilities

• Lead the UX philosophy across Parcks and ensure consistency with our values.
• Own and evolve the Parcks Design System, components, typography, and accessibility standards.
• Translate privacy-focused features into intuitive UX workflows for encryption, permissions, and data control.
• Collaborate with engineering to simplify complex technologies into user-friendly interfaces.
• Run user research, usability testing, and accessibility reviews to inform design decisions.
• Mentor and grow junior designers and researchers to build a strong design culture.

Skills

UI/UX design

Leadership

User research

Accessibility

Information architecture

Interaction design

Design systems

Tools

Figma

Sketch

Prototyping tools

Job description

We believe that freedom should not only be protected. It should be felt.

For too long, privacy-focused and sovereign technologies have been designed as tools for specialists: powerful, but intimidating; secure, but difficult; ethical, but lacking beauty. This is not the future we want to build.

A machine that respects its user should also respect their emotions, their time, and their intelligence.

We seek a Lead UI/UX Designer who can transform the philosophy of digital sovereignty into an experience that anyone can embrace. Someone who understands that interfaces are not decoration layered on top of technology, they are the bridge between human intention and machine capability.

You will be the architect of how users experience our software environnement: how they discover its power, how they understand its privacy, how they control their data, and how they build a relationship of trust with their devices.

Your mission is not simply to design screens. Your mission is to make freedom intuitive.

You will craft an experience where encrypted communication, personal servers, local data ownership, and sovereign computing feel as natural as the best consumer technologies, while preserving the values that make Parcks different.

You will help prove that ethical technology does not need to sacrifice beauty. That privacy can feel effortless. That rebellion can feel elegant. Your mission is to make the most human, intuitive, and beautiful sovereign computing experience ever created.

Privacy, security, and user ownership cannot remain concepts understood only by engineers, developers, and security experts. They must become natural behaviours available to everyone.

You will transform complex technological capabilities into simple, meaningful human experiences. A user should not need to understand cryptography to communicate privately. A family should not need technical expertise to control their own data. A creator should not need to become a systems administrator to own their digital workspace.

Your responsibility is to hide complexity without hiding power. You will create experiences where users always remain in control, but never feel overwhelmed by unnecessary complexity.

You will define how Umbrella OS communicates: trust, transparency, security, personal ownership, creativity, freedom.

You will establish a unified design language across Parcks products, ensuring that every interaction feels like part of one coherent ecosystem.

Your work sits at the intersection of industrial design, software engineering, human psychology, accessibility, privacy, and technology philosophy.

Every interaction is a decision. Every animation communicates a feeling. Every workflow either empowers the user or creates friction.

Design is not just about making technology look attractive. Design is about making technology worthy of trust.

Key
responsibilities

• Human Experience Leadership — Define and protect the overall UX philosophy. Ensure every interaction reflects Parcks values: simplicity without limitation, privacy without complexity, power without intimidation, beauty without compromise. Create experience principles that guide every product decision.
• Parcks Design System Ownership — Create and maintain the unified design system, owning component libraries, interaction patterns, typography, iconography, accessibility standards, motion principles, and visual language. Ensure every part of the product feels like it belongs to the same universe.
• Privacy Experience Design — Transform advanced privacy features into understandable human experiences. Design intuitive workflows for encryption, permissions, privacy dashboards, local AI controls, personal data management, secure communication, and device sovereignty settings. The user should feel protected, not restricted.
• Complex System Simplification — Work closely with engineering teams to translate complex technologies into understandable interfaces, and transform technical capabilities into experiences ordinary users can understand.
• User Research & Reality Feedback — Build continuous feedback loops with CTL. Conduct usability studies, user interviews, prototype testing, behavioural analysis, and accessibility reviews. CTL reveals reality — you transform reality into better experiences.
• Design Leadership & Mentorship — Help build a world-class design culture. Mentor UI designers, UX researchers, interaction designers, and design engineers. Designers at Parcks are not decorators, they are architects of human freedom.
• 7+ years experience in UI/UX design.
• Proven experience leading complex digital products or platforms.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional interaction design and visual thinking.
• Deep understanding of information architecture, interaction design, usability principles, design systems, accessibility, responsive experiences, and human-computer interaction.
• Ability to transform complexity into simplicity.

Tools &
Technologies

• Figma.
• Sketch.
• Prototyping tools.

Duration &
Time Commitment

Full-time. Long-term role

• Bonus potential + equity stake — you are not just a manager, you’re an owner.
• Brighton's Flagship, with global collaboration.
• Work on an OS that will define a new era of independence.
• Join Kasa no ichimi — the freedom and responsibility to give voice to the most rebellious machines in the world.