Senior UI Designer

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading university is seeking a Senior UI Designer to enhance user experience through effective UI design. This role involves creating design assets, evolving design systems, and mentoring other designers while collaborating with product teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in user-centered design and exceptional communication skills.

Benefits

34 days of annual leave plus public holidays

Generous, defined benefit pension scheme

Family-friendly policies, including paid maternity/paternity leave

Qualifications

• Experience creating and evolving a design system for scalability.
• Proven ability to translate research insights into actionable design solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creation of UI design assets across digital platforms.
• Collaborate with product teams to align UI design with agile delivery.

Skills

User-Centered Design

UI Design

Storytelling

Communication

Design Thinking

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

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Senior UI Designer

The Senior UI Designer will play a leading role in the user interface design of our products and the evolution of our design system and accessibility standards. This role will be an active member of our design community in Digital and Technology, providing coaching and line management to other designers within the team.

You will lead the creation of UI design assets across UAL’s digital platforms, including wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs. You will also evolve and maintain a shared digital design system, ensuring consistency, brand alignment, and accessibility across our digital services, while providing efficiency and scalability to workflows.

This role will join a team of user experience, user interface designers, and user researchers, collaborating closely with product teams to align all UI design and research processes with our agile delivery methodology and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

In this recruitment round, we seek a Senior UI Designer to work across our Student Experience service teams, focusing on creating and enhancing a seamless and reliable digital experience. You will champion the evolution and implementation of easy-to-use principles, standards, and methodologies for UI design, ensuring their adoption and development over time. We welcome applications from experienced UI Designers who want to work for an organization committed to social purpose and facing new opportunities and challenges.

Experience

• Demonstrable knowledge, experience, and passion for user-centered design, with strong expertise in UI design and proficiency in tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience creating and evolving a design system to ensure scalability, balancing speed with quality to deliver value quickly and effectively.
• Proven ability to translate research insights, user feedback, and data into actionable design solutions, ensuring a delightful end-to-end user journey and driving measurable improvements to the user experience.
• Exceptional storytelling, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders, articulate design rationale, and bring user needs to life through compelling narratives and visual artifacts.
• Extensive experience applying design thinking across the full product lifecycle, and proactive in leading design initiatives that enhance user experience.
• Ability to mentor and coach designers and uphold high-quality design standards within teams.

Benefits

• 34 days of annual leave plus public holidays
• Generous, defined benefit pension scheme
• Family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of paid maternity or paternity leave

UAL is a world-class university shaping the creative industries worldwide, offering staff a range of benefits, training, and personal development opportunities to recognize and reward contributions, and to encourage excellence, creativity, and diversity.

HAYS Technology has been retained by the University of the Arts London to manage the recruitment of this role. For inquiries, please contact Breanna Mahan at Hays Technology.