User Experience Designer

hedgehog lab; Wilmslow; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A digital product consultancy is seeking a Product Designer to take charge of end-to-end design for web-first projects. You will leverage your Figma expertise to create prototypes, facilitate workshops, and collaborate closely with product, engineering, and research teams. Ideal candidates will have over five years in digital product design and a strong portfolio demonstrating real-world impact.

Benefits

Real autonomy

Meaningful work

Modern craft

Qualifications

• 5+ years in digital product design focused on web-first projects.
• 3+ years expertise in Figma with advanced prototyping skills.
• Proven experience in creating and maintaining design systems.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product design on web-first projects.
• Prototype rapidly in Figma and validate with users.
• Facilitate workshops and usability tests to drive decisions.

Skills

Figma

Digital product design

Facilitation of workshops

Job description

Location: Remote-first (UK). Optional hub days in Newcastle, Leeds, Edinburgh.

Whats In It For You

• Real autonomy & a loud design voice. Youll shape journeys, interfaces and outcomes not just tickets
• Meaningful work. A portfolio of products with social value and measurable impact.
• Modern craft. Contemporary tooling, rapid testing and iteration are baked in.

What Youll Do

• Own end-to-end product design on web-first projects: flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and polished prototypes.
• Prototype fast in Figma and validate with users/stakeholders before build.
• Create and evolve design systems (setup, documentation, governance).
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, usability tests and C-suite playbacks to drive decisions.
• Partner closely with product, engineering and research to ship outcomes, not outputs.

Who We Are

Were hedgehog lab, a digital product consultancy building products that do good and get results. Our design team works across sectors with a strong focus on fintech/wealth, alongside healthtech and insurtech.

What Were Looking For

• Experience: 58 years in digital product design (web-first; native app is a nice-to-have).
• Figma expert: 3+ years hands-on, including advanced prototyping and components/variants.
• Design systems: proven record creating and maintaining scalable systems.
• Facilitation: confident running workshops, interviews, testing and senior stakeholder sessions
• Portfolio: end-to-end process, system-level thinking and real-world impact.

Ready to have real impact and a real voice?

Apply via this advert and/or book a call with one of our recruiters: https://calendly.com/tom-smith-hedgehoglab/design-vacancy-call