Senior UX Designer, Parallax

• As a Senior UX Designer, you must be able to showcase a highly polished portfolio of designs with various digital products and experiences (websites, apps etc.)
• You must also be able to demonstrate effectively how your UX strategies and/or designs have transformed businesses and delivered results
• You’re a clear communicator who can confidently influence, challenge and guide stakeholders and peers
• You balance user needs with commercial goals and technical constraints, and make pragmatic decisions when required
• You work well under pressure, handle ambiguity with maturity, and are highly self-organised
• You’re collaborative, humble and open to feedback, but not afraid to challenge assumptions
• You’re eager to grow, take ownership and become a trusted partner within the team and wider business
• 5+ years’ experience in UX, UI, or digital product design (agency or consultancy background preferred)
• Strong experience planning and facilitating discovery workshops
• Hands-on experience running user interviews, usability tests and unmoderated testing to validate concepts or designs
• Strong experience with Figma, including design systems (building, maintaining or evolving them)
• Ability to translate insight into clear IA, user flows, wireframes and journey maps
• Strong visual design sensibility and attention to detail across typography, composition and layout
• Experience working with brand guidelines or shaping new visual directions where needed
• Clear understanding of content design principles and how content shapes UX
• Experience working in agile teams and contributing to iterative delivery cycles
• Knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design principles

Desirable

• We’re looking for an enthusiastic and talented Senior UX Designer to join our Experience Design team
• This is a varied role allowing you to flex your creative muscles across strategic discovery, UX challenges, content, mobile apps and interactive digital designs
• This role sits at the intersection of research, strategy, interaction design and visual communication
• You’ll lead discovery, translate insight into clear experience direction, and collaborate with cross-functional squads to deliver usable, elegant and commercially impactful solutions
• You’ll be joining a consultancy with a varied client base across sectors and markets, so you’ll need to flex your style, adapt quickly, and design for both brand maturity and greenfield environments
• Plan and lead discovery workshops, aligning on objectives, requirements, KPIs and success measures
• Plan and run user research (interviews, usability testing, unmoderated tests, workshops). Synthesise findings into clear, actionable insights and present them to stakeholders and the team
• Define user journeys, IA, user flows and feature prioritisation. Translate business goals, user needs and technical constraints into coherent UX direction and design recommendations
• Turn ideas into wireframes, flows and interactive prototypes. Iterate rapidly based on insight, feasibility discussions and stakeholder feedback
• Contribute to and maintain design systems in Figma; apply strong visual design principles across typography, layout and interaction patterns
• Collaborate with developers, designers and delivery managers in cross-functional squads. Provide high-quality specifications, annotations and handover documentation, and support build feasibility and design quality throughout delivery
• Communicate design rationale to senior stakeholders and guide them through decisions with confidence and clarity
• Mentor mid-weight and junior designers, promoting a culture of feedback, openness and continuous improvement
• Contribute to estimates, proposals and new business activities, identifying strategic opportunities for design innovation
• Contribute to refining the Parallax design process, driving operational excellence from discovery through to delivery

• Stage 1
• Applied
• Stage 2
• Pre-screen call
• Stage 3
• 1st Interview & Design Task
• Once you've passed our quick pre-screen call, you'll be invited for an in-person interview at our offices, or if the role is remote, we'll do a video call
• Stage 4
• 2nd Interview
• If we're encouraged by your first interview, we will invite you in for a second interview, which will also be in-person at our offices in Leeds. This will be more scenario-focused, testing your practice, commercial and soft skills
• Stage 5
• Hired