UX/UI Designer - Midweight - 12 month contract

The Role

At Unite Students, we create a Home for Success by leveraging technology to empower students to thrive in their university journey. We have an exciting opportunity for a Midweight UX/UI Designer to join our team based in Bristol on a 12-month contract.

As a Midweight UX/UI Designer, you will play a key role in crafting user experiences. Reporting to a Senior UX/UI Designer, you will be part of a dedicated UX team, contributing to innovative projects and digital solutions.

With support from the Lead and Senior Designers, you will contribute to ongoing product work on the website. You will collaborate with a UX Researcher to validate assumptions and ensure solutions are grounded in insights. You will be passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity.

You will facilitate workshops, create user journey maps, define information architecture for complex products, and design UI under the guidance of senior team members.

What You'll Be Doing

• Champion user-centred design principles, ensuring UX/UI standards across designs.
• Maintain brand guidelines and the design system to ensure consistency across digital experiences.
• Work closely with Product Owners (POs), Business Analysts (BAs), Developers, and Stakeholders to research, ideate, and conceptualise design solutions.
• Conduct research, user interviews, and usability testing to inform design decisions.
• Translate concepts into wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI design (iterating based on feedback and testing).
• Share ideas and suggest improvements during peer review sessions.
• Leverage backlog management tools (e.g., Azure DevOps) to track progress and align with project timelines.

What We're Looking for in You

• Demonstrable experience in UX/UI or product design.
• A strong portfolio showcasing web design skills.
• Proven ability to communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions effectively.
• Proficiency in building low and high fidelity UX/UI flows and prototypes in tools like Figma, Adobe XD, and Protopie.
• A practical understanding of accessibility requirements.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Collaborative, a good communicator, and strong problem-solver.

Desirable

• Experience working on B2C products with a focus on transaction and conversion.
• Experience with how back-end systems integrate with consumer-facing platforms and support customer journeys.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in hospitality, travel, or similar B2C domains involving booking flows.

What You'll Get in Return

• A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company's success.
• 25 days' paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service.
• A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save.
• Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform, and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends.
• Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal, and more!

About Unite Students

Founded in 1991, Unite Students is a FTSE 100 business and the UK's leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 25 leading university towns and cities, with 74,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.

Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy, healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn't just what we do but who we are.

People make Unite Students. Employees, students, and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.

Room for Everyone. We're proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we're passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what's right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.

We are US.