UX / UI Designer - (FTC 12 months)

Fastmarkets; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A data-driven company in Greater London seeks a motivated UX/UI Designer to own end-to-end design processes. The role involves creating wireframes, prototypes, and design specifications while collaborating with the product team. Candidates should have 3-5 years of experience in B2B/SaaS environments and be proficient in Figma. The company fosters a collaborative and inclusive culture, welcoming diverse perspectives and ideas.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years in product-side UX/UI with B2B/SaaS experience.
• Figma power user with strong understanding of design systems.
• Comfort with experiments and metrics.
• Ability to work autonomously and prioritize tasks.

Responsibilities

• Translate problems into designs using flows, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Define success events to measure design impact.
• Contribute to design systems and component libraries.
• Collaborate with researchers for rapid usability testing.

Skills

Product-side UX/UI experience

Figma proficiency

User experience and metrics analysis

Strong interaction and visual craft

Clear communication skills

Tools

Figma

Jira

FigJam

Job description

Overview

Job Description

The Role

Own end-to-end UX / UI for product initiatives within the product team. You’ll move fast on immediate fixes while contributing to bigger roadmap items, design with evidence, and ship UI that’s consistent with our design system.

Responsibilities

• Design delivery: Translate problems into flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI and clickable prototypes in Figma; write concise specs and acceptance criteria.
• Heap-aware design: Define success events with PM / Eng so we can measure impact; review dashboards to inform iterations.
• CX improvements: Ship quick wins without derailing big-ticket work.
• Design system: Use and extend our component library; contribute tokens / patterns with clear rationale.
• Research lite: Collaborate with our researcher on rapid tests; run lean usability sessions when needed; fold insights into designs.
• Quality & access: Partner with engineers through QA; uphold tidy files and leave a clear audit trail (notes, variants, naming).
• Stakeholder comms: Align with PMs, engineers and data; concise Looms / notes to unblock build.

Qualifications

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

• 3–5 years in product-side UX / UI with shipped work in B2B / SaaS or data-heavy apps.
• Figma power user: components, variants, auto-layout, prototyping, tokens.
• Comfortable with experiments / metrics (Heap / GA mix).
• Strong interaction & visual craft; responsive patterns; thoughtful microcopy.
• Clear communicator, pragmatic, can prioritise and operate autonomously on a contract.

Nice to have

• Basic HTML / CSS, familiarity with dashboards / financial data, Jira, FigJam.

Success looks like

• Measurable lifts on activation / retention / cross-sell from the work you ship.
• Clean handoffs and fewer design QA issues.
• Reusable patterns added to the design system with documentation.

If you\'re excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don\'t perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they\'re embedded in everything we do. Our values are :

METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance

ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with : we keep our promises and get things done

GROWTH MINDSET . This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency

INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.

CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do

• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process : it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.