UX Designer

Free-Work; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Free-Work is recruiting a hands-on UX Designer for a part-time role in Holborn, Central London. The position focuses on delivering user-centered design across multiple projects, with a 20-hour week commitment and an emphasis on stakeholder collaboration.

You will craft wireframes, run workshops, and communicate design decisions clearly to cross-functional teams. Experience with Sketch or similar tools and a Design degree or equivalent are preferred.

Qualifications

• Senior designer with 4+ years of work experience with blue chip clients.
• Design processes, agile development and lean UX.
• Working collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team.
• Creating omnichannel experiences – cross-platform and cross-device solutions.
• Ability to define key metrics and evaluate project success.
• Working to strict deadlines.
• Proven design track record and design agency experience.
• Design degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead UX design across multiple projects and collaborate with stakeholders to drive direction.
• Advise on best practices and execution within evolving digital strategy to deliver outcomes.

Skills

Communication

Workshop facilitation

UX research

Ambiguity handling

Leadership in challenging situations

Communicating commercial impact

UX process mastery

Visual thinking & prototyping

Attention to detail

Wireframing & iteration

Sketch

Axure

Technical understanding

Education

Design degree or equivalent

Tools

Sketch

Axure

Job description

UX Designer - Holborn - Part-Time

Our Client is seeking to recruit a part-time UX Designer for 20 hours per week.

We are looking for a hands-on practitioner, with a can-do attitude and strong organizational skills.

This is a consultancy role, advising a global player in Education on direction and execution of a number of products/projects, as part of the evolving digital strategy.

It is essential that you are self-managed and organized, and able to effectively prioritize and advise multiple stakeholders.

Your focus will be on people - clients, users/customers, and colleagues; and on the process - support and advocate best practice approaches, and adapt and pivot in order to achieve the most regardless of the context.

The key skills for this role are as follows:

SKILLS

• Excellent communication skills, written and oral. Excellent presentation skills.
• Workshop facilitation.
• UX and ethnographic research.
• Ability to fluidly and confidently work in ambiguous situations.
• Provide leadership in challenging situations through clarity, tact and diplomacy.
• Ability to identify and communicate the commercial impact of design decisions.
• Full command of the UX process is a must. An understanding of the Service Design purpose and process is a bonus.
• Visual thinking, proof of concept, rapid prototyping, storyboarding and technical skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to quickly turn around wireframes in an iterative environment.
• Proficiency in Sketch, Axure, etc.
• An understanding of technology.

EXPERIENCE

• Senior designer with over 4 years of work experience with blue chip clients
• Design processes, agile development and lean UX.
• Working collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team.
• Creating omnichannel experiences – cross-platform and cross-device solutions.
• Ability to define key metrics and evaluate project success.
• Working to strict deadlines.
• Proven design track record and design agency experience.
• Design degree or equivalent.

as a UX designer, Product designer, UX architect, or a Service designer.

The Client is based in Holborn Central London.

The salary for this role will be in the range £25K - £30K