Senior Digital Designer — Web & Product

3800 Limited; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HTML/CSS/JS knowledge

React/Next.js experience

Headless CMS familiarity

Frontend prototyping ability

Job summary

3800 is seeking an experienced digital designer to shape websites and digital products for clients and for the studio itself. The role spans research, UX, UI, interaction and full Figma design, from early thinking to launch, with close collaboration with developers.

You’ll own projects, challenge ideas, and help define how we approach digital work as the team grows, including opportunities to lead capabilities over time.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years’ experience across digital design, UX/UI, web or product design.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating depth over volume and thoughtful craft.
• Ability to own projects and explain thinking to clients and team.

Responsibilities

• Create websites, apps and digital products with high visual craft.
• Lead UX research, information architecture and accessibility considerations.
• Deliver high‑fidelity Figma designs, prototypes, components and design systems.
• Collaborate closely with developers to ensure accurate implementation.
• Present ideas clearly in workshops and guide client decisions.
• Explore AI tools to improve research, design, prototyping and production workflows.

Skills

Digital design

UX/UI design

Figma

Interaction design

Research planning

Frontend collaboration

AI workflows

Tools

React

Next.js

Headless CMS

HTML/CSS/JS

Figma

Job description

We’re looking for an experienced digital designer to help shape the websites and digital products we create for our clients, and for 3800 itself.

This is a broad, hands‑on role for someone who loves to be involved in every step of the process.

You’ll work across research, UX, UI, interaction and full Figma designs, taking projects from early thinking through to launch and working closely with developers along the way.

We’re not a high-volume digital agency. We’d rather make a handful of genuinely brilliant websites a year than churn through one every few weeks. That gives us the space to understand the organisation behind the website, the people using it, and what the experience really needs to do — then push the work as far as we can.

You’ll have a lot of ownership here. You’ll be expected to bring your own thinking, challenge ideas, shape the approach and care about the details right through to the finished product.

And as 3800 grows, there’s a clear opportunity to help define how we approach digital work and, over time, lead that capability.

The Role

Your work will span websites, apps and other digital products.

Digital design

Creating thoughtful, distinctive digital experiences with a high level of visual craft.

UX

Understanding audiences, journeys, information architecture, accessibility and how people need to move through an experience.

Research

Planning and collaborating on UXR tasks, from interviews and usability testing to analytics, competitor research and customer behaviour.

UI

Taking projects through to complete, high‑fidelity Figma designs, prototypes, components and design systems.

Interaction

Considering how websites move and respond — animation, transitions, scroll behaviour, micro‑interactions and the smaller details that shape the experience.

Development

Working closely with developers, writing clear briefs, understanding technical considerations and reviewing the finished build against the design.

Digital products

Working beyond traditional websites when the project requires it, including apps, tools, portals and other interfaces.

Clients

Presenting ideas clearly, contributing to workshops and helping clients make good decisions about their digital products.

AI & new workflows

Exploring where new AI tools can genuinely improve research, design, prototyping, production and development workflows.

3800

Helping improve our own website, digital tools, processes and the way we approach digital work as a studio.

As a bonus

• A good working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Experience working with modern front‑end frameworks such as React or Next.js
• Familiarity with headless CMS platforms
• The ability to prototype, experiment with or build front‑end interactions yourself

You don’t need to be a developer. But we’re particularly interested in designers who understand how their work gets built, enjoy getting closer to the code, and can work confidently with development teams and technologies.

Your experience

You’ll probably have around 5–10 years’ experience working across digital design, UX/UI, web or product design. Importantly, you’ll have a strong body of work that shows what you can do.

We care about depth more than volume, and would much rather see a handful of projects where you can explain the thinking and detail behind the work than fifty websites produced at speed.

You’ll be comfortable taking significant ownership of projects, working directly with clients and collaborating closely with a 3800's creative lead, founder, and external developers.

Salary

£40–60k (DoE)

Location

Sheffield, UK

(Studio‑based role)

Careers at 3800

We’re ambitious about the work we do, but deliberate about how we grow. We choose projects carefully and focus on work where we can make a genuine difference, both for our clients and the people we work alongside.

As a team, we invest heavily in each other’s development. Everyone receives a £1,000 annual personal development budget and 12 days per year dedicated to CPD, giving people the space and support to keep learning and progressing in their careers.

We also believe that good work comes from people who feel supported and connected. Alongside 23 days holiday (plus Christmas break and your birthday off) plus bank holidays, we make time to get together outside the studio — building the kind of team that genuinely enjoys working with each other.

All of our roles are based out of our Sheffield studio. As a company we put a lot of focus on working together and believe that our strongest work happens when people are in the same place. We aim to be flexible with working from home to accommodate needs on a case by case basis however, unless otherwise specified for the role, all working hours take place in the studio.