Senior Digital and UI Designer

Royal London; Alderley Edge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Royal London, the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, is hiring a Senior Digital & UI Designer to create accessible, visually compelling experiences across web and mobile. Working in cross-functional squads, you will shape product interfaces from concept to delivery, contribute to the design system, and champion accessibility and inclusive design.

You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to use insights and data to improve digital products while mentoring

Qualifications

• Significant experience designing digital products and services within agile product teams.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma and modern design workflows.
• Strong visual design skills across typography, layout, interaction and responsive design.
• Experience designing for web and mobile platforms, ideally across complex customer journeys.
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.
• Experience working with and contributing to design systems.
• Ability to use customer insight, research and data to inform design decisions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decisions through design.

Responsibilities

• Shape end-to-end experiences across web and mobile products, from concept through to delivery.
• Create prototypes and high-fidelity designs that solve customer and business problems.
• Collaborate to evolve Royal London’s design system, ensuring consistency across products.
• Work with researchers, product managers and engineers to shape product direction.
• Champion accessibility and inclusive design across customer experiences.
• Use data and experimentation to continuously improve digital products.
• Present design solutions and rationale to stakeholders.

Skills

Digital design

UI design

UX design

Accessibility

Design collaboration

Customer insight

Communication

Design systems

Tools

Figma

Job description

Contract type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Park
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 8th September 2026

We're looking for talented Senior Digital & UI Designers to create intuitive, accessible and visually compelling digital experiences that delight customers and support business growth.

Working within cross-functional product squads, you'll combine user insight, product thinking and exceptional visual design skills to shape experiences across our web and mobile platforms. You'll play a key role in evolving Royal London's design system and helping establish design excellence across our growing digital community.

This is an opportunity to influence products used by millions of customers while working alongside, product managers, engineers and fellow designers to solve meaningful customer problems.

About the role

• Shape end-to-end experiences across web and mobile products, from concept through to delivery.
• Create prototypes and high-fidelity designs that solve customer and business problems.
• Contribute to and evolve Royal London's design system, ensuring consistency and quality across products.
• Collaborate with researchers, product managers and engineers to shape product direction and prioritise opportunities.
• Champion accessibility, inclusive design and best practice across all customer experiences.
• Use customer insight, data and experimentation to continuously improve digital products.
• Support and influence stakeholders by presenting design solutions and articulating design rationale.

About you

• Significant experience designing digital products and services within agile product teams.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma and modern design workflows.
• Strong visual design skills across typography, layout, interaction and responsive design.
• Experience designing for web and mobile platforms, ideally across complex customer journeys.
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.
• Experience working with and contributing to design systems.
• Ability to use customer insight, research and data to inform design decisions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decisions through design.

• Experience within Financial Services or another regulated environment would be advantageous.

We'dparticularly love to hear from you if you have experience in one or more of the following areas:

AI & Digital Platforms

• Delivering AI-enabled products or digital capabilities.
• Experience working with financial industry standards such as Open Banking
• Bringing innovative technologies into regulated environments while balancing customer, risk and regulatory considerations.

Mobile App

• Delivering Mobile App functionality for customers
• Supporting effective and safe deliveries as part of agile squads
• Liaising with Development and test colleagues to drive continuous improvements to our services on Mobile Apps

While we are particularly interested in candidates with these skills, all relevant experience will be considered.Even if youdon'tmeet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and your unique experiences and perspectives could bea great additionto our team.

About Royal London

We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and