Senior UX Designer

Utility Warehouse; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Matched-contribution pension scheme

Discounted private health insurance

Cashback Card

Pension & life assurance

Family-friendly policies

Private health insurance

Job summary

A leading utility provider in the UK is seeking a Senior UX Designer to enhance user experiences across various platforms. This role includes leading design teams, mentoring junior designers, and ensuring consistency in product design. Ideal candidates will have over 3 years of experience in user-centered design and a sound understanding of WCAG guidelines. The position offers competitive salary, flexible working arrangements, and a focus on personal development.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a UX/Product Designer with a solid understanding of full-cycle user-centered design.
• Expertise in both low- and high-fidelity wireframing and prototyping.
• Deep understanding of WCAG guidelines and a11y considerations.
• Ability to mentor junior designers.
• Knowledge of WCAG accessibility guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of digital and offline touchpoints for a consistent user experience.
• Drive team goals by ensuring work aligns with overarching objectives.
• Advocate for process improvements and mentor junior designers.
• Coach and mentor other designers.
• Present design rationale to stakeholders.
• Drive process improvements in design reviews.

Skills

User-centered design

Prototyping skills

Communication skills

Visual design

Mentorship

Multi-platform

Communication

Job description

Hi! We're UW. We’re on a mission to take the headache out of utilities by providing them all in one place. One bill for energy, broadband, mobile and insurance and a whole lot of savings!

We’re aiming to double in size as we help more people to stop wasting time and money. Big ambitions, to be delivered by people like you.

Got your attention? Read on…

We put people first. It’s all about you..

We're looking for a Senior UX Designer at UW, to own design work for complex or high-impact product areas with confidence and autonomy. You will demonstrate strong craft and collaboration skills and are trusted to deliver quality experiences with minimal oversight.

As a Senior UX Designer, you will contribute to defining product strategy through user insight and design direction, ensuring your team’s work aligns with user needs and business outcomes. You guide less experienced designers, helping them grow through feedback, mentoring, and example. You advocate for the user and represent design in cross-functional discussions, helping others understand the value of good design.

We work together. Your team and the people you will work with…

Within this role you will be building the design framework that underpins every product and service at Utility Warehouse. As part of a major digitalisation programme, you’ll work closely with service designers, product teams across energy, broadband, mobile, insurance and cashback, and partners in product, data and engineering.

We deliver progress. What you’ll do and how you will make an impact:

You’ll lead the end-to-end experience across digital and offline touch points, creating consistency at scale through clear design patterns, frameworks and standards. You’ll drive adoption of a unified design language, enable collaboration, and support designers in your team. This includes setting guidelines, organising design assets, and maintaining documentation to prevent experience drift. You’ll coach teams to think beyond individual products, embed service design as a lasting capability, and help shift design from a reactive function to a strategic partner, shaping processes, measuring impact, and influencing a long‑term transformation across the organisation.

• Drive Goals: You are integral in defining team goals and ensuring proposed work aligns with them. You drive prioritisation within your team to best achieve these outcomes.
• Autonomy: You lead design across complex user flows and multi-platform experiences, looking holistically at the user’s experience beyond just the touch points in your immediate remit.
• Influence: You use data and insights to influence product direction and educate others on user and business trade‑offs.

Advanced Research & Craft

• Complex Research: You plan and conduct end-to-end research for complex features or journeys, choosing the right methods (qualitative or quantitative) to ensure insights are reliable.
• Visual Excellence: You raise the visual design bar by setting high standards through your own work. You apply deep expertise in layout, hierarchy, typography, and color.
• Holistic Design: You collaborate with engineers to leverage technology to enhance the user experience, ensuring a seamless journey across platforms.
• Accessibility Guardian: You understand, assess against, and can clearly explain WCAG guidelines and accessibility considerations, ensuring inclusive design standards are met.
• Mentorship: You act as a collaborator and mentor to other designers, helping them improve their technical mastery (research, UX, UI).
• Communication: You present design rationale clearly and confidently to stakeholders, adapting your communication style to your audience.
• Process Improvement: You advocate for process improvements in design reviews and help the team work more effectively.

Here's the core skills and experience we're looking for you to bring:

Technical Mastery:

• 3yrs+ experience UX/ Product Designer with a solid understanding of full‑cycle user-centred design (Research, UX&UI)
• Best‑in‑class design, wireframe (low and high fidelity) and prototyping skills
• Demonstrable experience of applying a range or research methodologies to drive reliable insights
• Experience of leading design across complex user flows and multi-platform experiences
• Understands, assesses against and can explain WCAG guidelines&a11y consideration

Impact:

• High levels of prioritisation skills with the ability to focus and drive the right work at the right time.

Planning & Delivery:

• Experience of leading initiatives that improve how the UX or product team operates
• Ability to facilitate large‑scale meeting and cross‑team workshops
• Delivers high quality design outcomes across multiple work streams

Operational Excellence:

• Operates autonomously across multiple initiatives
• Improves team collaboration through process enhancements

Business & Domain Knowledge:

• Deep understanding of domain/ user segments and KPIs
• Uses data and insights to influence product direction

Leadership & Culture:

• Experience of giving feedback and guiding junior team members to improve their craft.

So why pick UW?

We’ve got big ambitions so there’s going to be plenty of challenges. There are also a lot of benefits:

• An industry‑benchmarked salary. We’ll share it during your first conversation.
• Share Options and Save as You Earn scheme.
• Flexible working — remote‑first with access to hot desks across the UK and a central London hub.
• Work‑from‑anywhere policy for up to 2 weeks per year.
• Discounts on our services and a free Cashback Card.
• Matched‑contribution pension scheme and life assurance up to 4x salary.
• Family‑friendly policies designed to help you and your family thrive.
• Discounted private health insurance, Employee Assistance line and free Virtual GP.
• Belonging groups helping shape an inclusive future.
• A commitment to learning and progression through our Career Development Framework with regular review and promotion cycles.