Senior Product Designer

Futureheads; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A digital recruitment agency seeks a Senior Product Designer to create customer-facing digital experiences for a global energy brand. This role involves translating complex problems into UI flows, designing interactive patterns, and collaborating extensively across teams. Ideal candidates have at least 5 years of experience in product design, with a strong focus on visual design and usability testing. This contract position offers a hybrid work model, emphasizing flexibility and a commitment to diversity.

Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience in product design for complex web products.
• Comfort across research methods, usability testing, and rapid validation.
• Experience collaborating with product, engineering, and editorial/content partners.

Responsibilities

• Translate complex problems into clear, testable flows.
• Design UI and interaction patterns with strong typography and micro‑interactions.
• Prototype and validate wireframes through high‑fidelity UI.

Skills

UI & Visual Design

Usability testing

Rapid validation

Job description

Senior Product Designer (Contract)

• Contract: 6 months, Inside IR35
• Day rate: £530/day
• Location: Hybrid (London‑based)
• Start: ASAP

A bit of context

We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to shape customer‑facing digital experiences for a global energy brand. You’ll balance UX thinking, UI craft, and pragmatic research, building coherent journeys across a large digital estate (web‑first with some mobile exposure). Expect data‑rich workflows, collaborative delivery, and the chance to improve design foundations at scale. Your work will touch high‑traffic customer journeys in a sector rapidly expanding its digital footprint (payments, rewards, EV charging, and convenience).

What you’ll do

• Translate complex problems into clear, testable flows—mapping journeys and refining information architecture for web experiences that scale.
• Design UI and interaction patterns (responsive web first; some mobile exposure) with strong typography, visual hierarchy, and micro‑interactions.
• Prototype and validate: wireframes through high‑fidelity UI; usability testing and quick research loops to de‑risk decisions.
• Data‑heavy UX: shape dashboards and analytical views so users get signal over noise—prioritised KPIs, sensible defaults, and clear actions.
• Design systems & accessibility: contribute to components, tokens, and usage guidance; design to WCAG 2.2 standards (focus visibility, touch target sizes, reduced drag gestures).
• Collaborate to ship: work closely with product owners, engineers, researchers, and copywriters; maintain momentum with crisp communication and reliable delivery.

What we’re looking for

• 5 years’ experience in product design for complex web products.
• Strength in UI & Visual Design
• Comfort across research methods, usability testing, and rapid validation.
• Experience collaborating with product, engineering, and editorial/content partners.
• A pragmatic mindset: you can prioritise, ship, and iterate.

Nice to have

• Exposure to mobile app patterns and platform conventions.
• Experience with data visualisation (dashboards, charts, graphing) and simplifying B2B SaaS workflows.

We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre‑interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us. Futureheads is a B Corp™ accredited digital recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in recruiting permanent, contract and freelance digital and tech professionals in creative, data, design, digital marketing, engineering, product, project and programme management, UX and service design jobs.