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Senior Product Designer
We are seeking an experienced Senior Product Designer to join a fast-paced digital product team on an initial 3-month contract. This role will focus on creating intuitive, user-centred digital experiences across web and mobile platforms, combining user research, UX design, UI design, and collaborative product delivery.
Location: Waterside (UB7 0GB) (2 days onsite)
Contract Length: 3 months initially
Pay: attractive daily rate (inside IR35)
Key Responsibilities
User Research & Insight
- Support research activities, usability testing, and discovery initiatives to understand customer needs and behaviours.
- Analyse research findings and translate insights into actionable design recommendations.
- Collaborate with researchers, product teams, and stakeholders to validate assumptions and support evidence-based decision-making.
- Use customer feedback, behavioural data, and product metrics to inform design solutions.
UX & Product Design
- Design end-to-end user journeys and digital experiences across multiple channels.
- Create information architecture, user flows, wireframes, and interaction designs.
- Develop customer journey maps and service blueprints to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Balance customer needs, business goals, and technical constraints when designing solutions.
- Apply systems thinking to ensure a seamless experience across products and platforms.
- Partner with Product Managers and Product Owners to shape product strategy, prioritisation, and success metrics.
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UI Design & Prototyping
- Produce high-fidelity designs and interactive prototypes using Figma.
- Create responsive designs for web and mobile applications across multiple devices and screen sizes.
- Iterate designs based on stakeholder feedback, user testing, and delivery requirements.
- Contribute to design systems, component libraries, and reusable design patterns.
- Champion accessibility, consistency, and design quality across all digital products.
Delivery & Collaboration
- Work closely with Product Owners, Developers, Researchers, and Scrum teams throughout the product life cycle.
- Facilitate workshops, design reviews, and collaborative design sessions with stakeholders.
- Clearly communicate design rationale and recommendations using customer insights and product data.
- Support user acceptance testing, design assurance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Use collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Teams.
Required Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as a Product Designer, UX Designer, or Digital Product Designer.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design and user-centred design methodologies.
- Expertise in UX design, information architecture, interaction design, and user journey mapping.
- Advanced proficiency in Figma for wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity design.
- Experience conducting or supporting user research and usability testing.
- Strong understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.
- Experience working within Agile product development environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and workshop facilitation skills.
- Familiarity with design systems and component-based design approaches.
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Desirable
- Experience designing for large-scale digital products or customer-facing platforms.
- Knowledge of service design methodologies.
- Experience working with cross-functional product, engineering, and research teams.
- Understanding of data-driven design and experimentation approaches.
What You'll Bring
- A passion for creating exceptional user experiences.
- Strong problem-solving and systems-thinking abilities.
- Confidence in collaborating with diverse stakeholders and influencing product decisions.
- The ability to work independently and deliver high-quality design outcomes in a fast-moving environment.
If you're a talented Senior Product Designer looking for your next contract opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.
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