300 Lead User Researcher jobs in the United Kingdom

Lead User Researcher – UK Wide (Excluding London)

Up to £95,000 – Permanent

We’re looking for a Lead User Researcher to join a high-impact, public sector-focused team. This is a senior, hands-on role where you’ll drive research strategy , mentor other researchers, and ensure user insights directly shape critical government and healthcare services.

If you come from a consulting background , are SC-cleared, and thrive in fast-paced, high-responsibility environments, this role gives you the chance to make a real impact.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and manage complex user research programmes across multiple public sector projects
• Translate user insights into actionable guidance for design and delivery teams
• Mentor and coach junior researchers, shaping capability across the practice
• Influence stakeholders at all levels, ensuring evidence-based decisions guide service design
• Drive best practice in user research, advocating for inclusive, accessible, and ethical design
• Work across delivery phases: discovery, alpha, beta, and live, ensuring research has real-world impact

Experience required

• Strong consulting experience delivering user research in public sector, government, or healthcare
• Proven ability to lead research teams and deliver actionable insights at scale
• Deep understanding of user-centred design principles and research methodologies
• SC clearance (or eligible to obtain)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Nice to have

• Knowledge of UK Government Service Standard and GDS practices
• Experience in service design or digital transformation consulting
• Active involvement in design/research communities (mentoring, speaking, thought leadership)

Why this is different

• Work on high-impact public services that affect millions
• Shape the future of user research capability and practice in the public sector
• Lead a team of talented researchers in a collaborative, mission-driven environment
• Flexible UK-wide working (except London) with supportive benefits
• Opportunity to make your mark on government and healthcare services across the country

We’re looking for leaders who combine consulting experience, public sector knowledge, and hands-on research capability to deliver measurable impact.

To explore this opportunity, get in touch directly.

Job Title: UX Designer

Location: Chester, United Kingdom

We are looking for a UX Designer  with strong user-centered design expertise and hands-on experience in UI development using Angular or React . In this role, you will design intuitive user experiences and work closely with cross-functional teams to translate designs into functional interfaces.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct user research and transform insights into wireframes and prototypes
li>Design clean, user-friendly, and accessible interfaces
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders
• Build or support UI components using Angular or React

About Us:

Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” (EngineeringAI) methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital.

Job Description:

We’re looking for a Senior UX Researcher who brings deep curiosity, strong empathy, and a strategic mindset. In this role, you’ll lead and execute research that makes insights actionable, visible, and influential, helping shape product direction and business decisions.

What You’ll Do

As a Sr. UX Researcher, you will:

• Drive and execute all stages of research: from recruitment and participant communication to conducting studies, analyzing results, and delivering insights.
li>Develop impactful artifacts tailored to project needs, such as research plans, screeners, interview guides, reports, journey maps, personas, highlight reels, data visualizations, and mixed-method summaries.
• Present research readouts to client partners and executives to influence decision-making.
• Facilitate alignment workshops and support cross-functional collaboration to ensure insights are fully embedded in product strategy.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience conducting UX research to uncover insights, identify unmet needs, and improve product outcomes.
• Proficiency in a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods, with the ability to choose the right approach for each project.
• Empathetic listening skills and the ability to deliver an unbiased, user-centered point of view.
• Experience designing and executing inclusive participant recruitment strategies.
• Basic understanding of effective design principles and how research informs UX and product decisions.
• Strong portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your research process, storytelling, and impact.
• Excellent storytelling and presentation skills that bring research to life and inspire action.

Mainly if you bring the following, you're a superstar in our eyes

• Solid experience with mobile-first, native app experiences (iOS/Android), including familiarity with platform conventions and user behaviors.
• Demonstrated success in consumer-facing (B2C) research, especially in emotionally resonant, growth-oriented, or conversion-driven experiences.
• Deep domain expertise in banking or fintech, with a strong grasp of regulatory requirements, trust signals, and accessibility best practices.

About Us:

Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” (EngineeringAI) methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital.

With Ascendion, you:

Will get to work on numerous challenging and exciting projects on our various offerings including Salesforce, AI/Data Science, Generative AI/ML, Automation, Cloud Enterprise and Product/Platform Engineering. At Ascendion you have high chances of project extension or redeployment to other clients. Additionally, you can also share CV of anyone you know. We have a referral policy in place.

Job Description:

What You Bring

• 8+ years of experience writing for digital products, mobile apps, web platforms, or SaaS tools.
li>Mastery of UX writing principles, with a clear POV on clarity, hierarchy, intent, and tone.
• Experience working in cross-functional product teams using agile, iterative approaches.
• Strong portfolio showcasing thoughtful UX content work, explaining context, decision-making, and impact.
• Ability to balance creativity with precision, matching tone to task, adapting to constraints, and simplifying complexity.
• Familiarity with Figma and working within design systems.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG), content design principles, and UX best practices.
• Excellent storytelling, presentation, and collaboration skills.

If you bring the following, you're a superstar in our eyes

• Experience writing for native mobile platforms (iOS, Android)
• Industry experience in Banking, fintech, or other domains with regulatory nuance.
• Experience partnering with AI, LLM, or chat interface teams on content generation or governance.
• Comfort conducting or analyzing content-specific usability testing.

About Us:

Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” (EngineeringAI) methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital. For more information

With Ascendion, you:

Will get to work on numerous challenging and exciting projects on our various offerings including Salesforce, AI/Data Science, Generative AI/ML, Automation, Cloud Enterprise and Product/Platform Engineering. At Ascendion you have high chances of project extension or redeployment to other clients. Additionally, you can also share CV of anyone you know. We have a referral policy in place.

Job Description:

What You Bring

• 8+ years of experience writing for digital products, mobile apps, web platforms, or SaaS tools.
li>Mastery of UX writing principles, with a clear POV on clarity, hierarchy, intent, and tone.
• Experience working in cross-functional product teams using agile, iterative approaches.
• Strong portfolio showcasing thoughtful UX content work, explaining context, decision-making, and impact.
• Ability to balance creativity with precision, matching tone to task, adapting to constraints, and simplifying complexity.
• Familiarity with Figma and working within design systems.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG), content design principles, and UX best practices.
• Excellent storytelling, presentation, and collaboration skills.

If you bring the following, you're a superstar in our eyes

• Experience writing for native mobile platforms (iOS, Android)
• Industry experience in Banking, fintech, or other domains with regulatory nuance.
• Experience partnering with AI, LLM, or chat interface teams on content generation or governance.
• Comfort conducting or analyzing content-specific usability testing.

About Us:

Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” (EngineeringAI) methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital. For more information

With Ascendion, you:

Will get to work on numerous challenging and exciting projects on our various offerings including Salesforce, AI/Data Science, Generative AI/ML, Automation, Cloud Enterprise and Product/Platform Engineering. At Ascendion you have high chances of project extension or redeployment to other clients. Additionally, you can also share CV of anyone you know. We have a referral policy in place.

Job Description:

We’re looking for a Senior UX Researcher who brings deep curiosity, strong empathy, and a strategic mindset. In this role, you’ll lead and execute research that makes insights actionable, visible, and influential, helping shape product direction and business decisions.

What You’ll Do

As a Sr. UX Researcher, you will:

• Drive and execute all stages of research: from recruitment and participant communication to conducting studies, analyzing results, and delivering insights.
li>Develop impactful artifacts tailored to project needs, such as research plans, screeners, interview guides, reports, journey maps, personas, highlight reels, data visualizations, and mixed-method summaries.
• Present research readouts to client partners and executives to influence decision-making.
• Facilitate alignment workshops and support cross-functional collaboration to ensure insights are fully embedded in product strategy.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience conducting UX research to uncover insights, identify unmet needs, and improve product outcomes.
• Proficiency in a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods, with the ability to choose the right approach for each project.
• Empathetic listening skills and the ability to deliver an unbiased, user-centered point of view.
• Experience designing and executing inclusive participant recruitment strategies.
• Basic understanding of effective design principles and how research informs UX and product decisions.
• Strong portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your research process, storytelling, and impact.
• Excellent storytelling and presentation skills that bring research to life and inspire action.

Mainly if you bring the following, you're a superstar in our eyes

• Solid experience with mobile-first, native app experiences (iOS/Android), including familiarity with platform conventions and user behaviors.
• Demonstrated success in consumer-facing (B2C) research, especially in emotionally resonant, growth-oriented, or conversion-driven experiences.
• Deep domain expertise in banking or fintech, with a strong grasp of regulatory requirements, trust signals, and accessibility best practices.

About Us:

Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” (EngineeringAI) methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital.

With Ascendion, you:

Will get to work on numerous challenging and exciting projects on our various offerings including Salesforce, AI/Data Science, Generative AI/ML, Automation, Cloud Enterprise and Product/Platform Engineering. At Ascendion you have high chances of project extension or redeployment to other clients. Additionally, you can also share CV of anyone you know. We have a referral policy in place.

Job Title: UX Designer

Location: Chester, United Kingdom

We are looking for a UX Designer  with strong user-centered design expertise and hands-on experience in UI development using Angular or React . In this role, you will design intuitive user experiences and work closely with cross-functional teams to translate designs into functional interfaces.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct user research and transform insights into wireframes and prototypes
li>Design clean, user-friendly, and accessible interfaces
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders
• Build or support UI components using Angular or React

About Us:

Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” (EngineeringAI) methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital.

UI / UX Designer. 35-45k plus benefits.

Hybrid. 2 days a week with the creative, digital and marketing team in the Leeds office.

This is a corporation with a with a US turnover of 22 billion and a European turnover of 9 billion.

However, this is no legacy business, nor corporate culture environment. The marketing team is

more marketing agency culture, but client-side – best of both worlds.

This European wide company is enterprise, modern business environment, with product areas in next generation SaaS digital platforms to green tech, and much more. 14 business brand areas in the company operating throughout Europe.

Strong ethics in the future of industry.

If you’re looking for the client-side move but a fun, marketing agency culture, this UI / UX Designer role is the advantages and brilliance of both.

UI / UX Designer role to join the in-house creative agency:

Works within the internal creative and digital agency team; designers, copywriters, video / animation and multi-channel digital marketing agency team and works into the Creative Lead who’s from the top digital agency environments.

The internal studio digital agency team support the Marketing Strategy Heads, Leads and Execs who work across the 14 different business brand areas across Europe.

The UI / UX Designer role will focus on the larger web builds & campaigns as the design team become more involved in the main brand sites.

The remit is wide, from user experience design across marketing campaigns to embarking on the front end of a very large digital product for Europe, alongside the software team over the next year.

You will lead the design of intuitive, engaging digital experiences across websites, apps, landing pages, and internal tools using behavioural data, user research, and UX best practices to shape seamless user journeys and bring ideas to life—from wireframes to polished UI.

They are looking for a strong portfolio showcasing your UX thinking and visual design skills.

Adobe Creative Suite and Figma or XD required and solid understanding of responsive design, accessibility (WCAG), and front-end principles. (HTML/CSS knowledge is a plus).

The European Marketing Director is also from agency background, the reason she stayed and worked through to their Head role, she says is the people. It’s fun, varied with opportunity, not really for someone used to long processes and procedures to evolve and implement strategy.

Please email your CV to me, Graham, with a view to being briefed further on the Creative Lead’s insights and the UI / UX Designer JD – and on this varied global company.

UI / UX Designer.