155 Lead Ux Designer jobs in the United Kingdom

Our OEM Client based in Gaydon, is searching for a Lead UX Designer to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a contract position until 31st March 2026.

Umbrella Pay Rate: £52.54 per hour.

The Lead UX Designer is responsible for shaping the experience of our vehicles as part of the wider brand experience and in the specific details of the digital UX. Working closely with UI Design as part of a design pair, the UX designer blends creativity with a deep knowledge of best-practices and design patterns that can be woven into the creative vision and later developed into tangible and deployable solutions that are robust and technically and legally compliant.

Key accountabilities:

• Take creative direction, brand principles and design vision and develop these faithfully into user experiences across multiple digital interfaces.
• Develop wireframes and interactive design prototypes to bring the vision to life.
• Work closely with UI Designers, Managers and SW Developers to ensure the vision is delivered.
• Ensure design solutions are intuitive and user centric.
• Ensure design solutions meet usability, accessibility and legal requirements.
• Liaise and co-ordinate with creative operations, programme management and business operations teams to ensure content delivery timing can be supported. 
• Stakeholder Management across interdependent design functions.

Essential Skills:

• Excellent UX design process experience gained in agency and corporate settings.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering UX solutions.
• Understanding of legal, accessibility and usability standards and requirements.
• Automotive design experience preferable.
• Experience of user research methodologies that influence user centric design.
• Experience of usability testing.
• Strong Stakeholder Management and influencing skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to present complex information to all levels within the business.
• Comfortable working across different cultures, geography and time zones.
• Able to adapt to a fast-paced design environment.
• Proficiency in Figma, Adobe etc.

Lead UX Designer - (phone number removed) - £53.15/hr umbrella rate

Are you ready to elevate your career and make a lasting impact in the automotive industry? This exciting opportunity as a Lead UX Designer offers the chance to shape the user experience of cutting-edge vehicles, blending creativity with innovation in an inspiring and fast-paced environment. If you're passionate about creating intuitive and user-centric designs that enhance brand identity, this role is your next step forward.

What You Will Do:  

- Transform creative direction and design vision into seamless user experiences across multiple digital interfaces.

- Develop wireframes and interactive prototypes to bring concepts to life.

- Collaborate closely with UI designers, managers, and software developers to ensure the vision is realised.

- Ensure all design solutions meet usability, accessibility, and legal standards.

- Coordinate with creative operations, programme management, and business operations teams to align content delivery timelines.

- Manage stakeholders across interdependent design functions to ensure project success.

What You Will Bring:

 - Proven experience in UX design processes within agency and corporate settings.

- A strong portfolio showcasing delivered UX solutions.

- Knowledge of legal, accessibility, and usability standards.

- Proficiency in tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.

- Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to adapt to diverse cultures and fast-paced environments.

This role is integral to enhancing the digital UX of vehicles, contributing to the broader brand experience. By delivering intuitive and compliant design solutions, you will play a key role in ensuring the company continues to set the standard in automotive design innovation.

Location:  This position is based in Gaydon, offering a dynamic and collaborative workplace in one of the UK's automotive hubs.

Interested?:  If you're ready to take on the challenge and make your mark as a Lead UX Designer, apply today to join this company's journey towards innovation and excellence!

This role is Inside IR35.  Unfortunately we cannot progress candidates who require sponsorship to work in the UK.

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Our OEM Client based in Gaydon, is searching for a Lead UX Designer to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a contract position until 31st March 2026.

Umbrella Pay Rate: £52.54 per hour.

The Lead UX Designer is responsible for shaping the experience of our vehicles as part of the wider brand experience and in the specific details of the digital UX. Working closely with UI Design as part of a design pair, the UX designer blends creativity with a deep knowledge of best-practices and design patterns that can be woven into the creative vision and later developed into tangible and deployable solutions that are robust and technically and legally compliant.

Key accountabilities:

• Take creative direction, brand principles and design vision and develop these faithfully into user experiences across multiple digital interfaces.
• Develop wireframes and interactive design prototypes to bring the vision to life.
• Work closely with UI Designers, Managers and SW Developers to ensure the vision is delivered.
• Ensure design solutions are intuitive and user centric.
• Ensure design solutions meet usability, accessibility and legal requirements.
• Liaise and co-ordinate with creative operations, programme management and business operations teams to ensure content delivery timing can be supported. 
• Stakeholder Management across interdependent design functions.

Essential Skills:

• Excellent UX design process experience gained in agency and corporate settings.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering UX solutions.
• Understanding of legal, accessibility and usability standards and requirements.
• Automotive design experience preferable.
• Experience of user research methodologies that influence user centric design.
• Experience of usability testing.
• Strong Stakeholder Management and influencing skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to present complex information to all levels within the business.
• Comfortable working across different cultures, geography and time zones.
• Able to adapt to a fast-paced design environment.
• Proficiency in Figma, Adobe etc.

We’re looking for a hands-on UX champion who can turn research insights into simple, elegant journeys and build a cohesive, scalable design system. You’ll collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to craft intuitive experiences across our product suite, from core workflows to AI-powered enhancements.

Deskpro builds modern helpdesk software used by thousands of organisations worldwide to manage multichannel customer support. Our platform is feature-rich and highly configurable, it’s used by teams of all sizes, from startups to global enterprises, and has both internal and customer facing use-cases.

With that depth comes complexity: our user experience needs to evolve to match the scale and sophistication of our product. This is where you come in.

You’ll play a foundational role in establishing a unified design vision, championing usability, and shaping user experiences across our product suite. Whether it’s providing strategic insight, or solving real-world user experience challenges across the product, you'll contribute to delivering user-centred solutions that enhance both user satisfaction and our competitive advantage.

• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to develop intuitive user journeys that align with customer expectations and business goals.
• Lead design efforts from discovery to delivery, with an emphasis on clarity, usability, and reducing cognitive load.
• Champion the creation and adoption of a coherent, scalable design system, ensuring brand consistency across Deskpro’s product suite.
• Foster a user-centred design culture through regular user research and usability testing, to inform design decisions and bring the voice of the customer into every iteration.
• Establish lightweight, efficient processes for design collaboration.
• Take a hands-on approach: creating wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity UI, and product copy when needed.
• Provide strategic, UX driven insight for innovative product features, particularly around emerging technologies such as AI.
• Act as an advocate for UX best practices across Deskpro, mentoring team members and stakeholders about UX methodologies, and fostering an effective, collaborative design culture.

This role is about improving how Deskpro works, not just how it looks.

• Redesigning and streamlining user onboarding processes to improve trial conversion rates.
• Improving navigation and accessibility in workflow builders.
• Making multi-channel customer interactions seamless and intuitive.
• Developing intuitive UX patterns for integrating emerging AI-driven features across Deskpro’s product suite.
• Lead comprehensive UX audits to identify areas of improvement and provide actionable strategic recommendations.
• Help teams identify incremental improvements that make a big difference to daily user workflows.

• Lead UX vision and practice
• Develop and champion consistent design principles, patterns, and accessibility standards.
• Manage the end-to-end design process, from discovery and prototyping to validation, specification, development, and delivery.
• Mentor team-members and advocate for UX best practices.

• Build and maintain a scalable design system
• Develop a design system covering typography, colour, UI components, interaction patterns, and documentation.
• Support adoption across product, engineering, and marketing teams to ensure consistent implementation.
• Coordinate regular user testing, interviews, and research.
• Translate user pain points and support insights into actionable design improvements.
• Collaborate across teams
• Work closely with Product Managers to define clear problem statements, success metrics, and validated design hypotheses.
• Partner with Engineering to ensure designs are feasible and implemented accurately.
• Coordinate with our Product Marketing Manager to align in-product copy, visual consistency, and brand voice.

Requirements

• Experience designing user-centric digital products, ideally with 5+ years in UX/UI or product design (or equivalent experience).
• Strong portfolio demonstrating ability to own and create scalable design systems in complex products end-to-end.
• Experience building, managing, and scaling design systems, ideally within a growing technology company.
• Bring strong user research and analytics skills, with an ability to translate insights into actionable designs for product improvement.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Combine pragmatic thinking with creativity, ensuring design outcomes are both innovative and aligned with business objectives.
• Communicate clearly and effectively, particularly when explaining design choices and strategies to stakeholders.
• Proficiency with tools such as Figma or similar design and prototyping platforms.
• An interest in exploring how AI can augment and facilitate the process.
• Understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.
• Show leadership potential, mentorship experience, and passion for building and growing a user-centric, UX driven culture.

If you don’t meet every requirement but are excited about this role, we’d still love to hear from you.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary.
• A mixture of autonomy over your own work and real responsibilities to the team and business.
• Your choice of equipment (a lot of our team like MacBooks with two 4k monitors)
• We facilitate self-improvement: books, conferences, just ask!
• BUPA private healthcare & cash scheme
• Perkbox – giving you access to savings on shopping, gym memberships, eating out etc.
• Hybrid flexible working.
• And the usual pension scheme, bike storage, season ticket loans, death in service etc.

We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive team where everyone has equal opportunity to thrive. If you need any accommodations during the hiring process, just let us know - we’re happy to help.

Want to join a team of passionate people who want to build a future where no one dies from skin cancer?

Lead UX Designer GDS Experience Needed

£70-80pa + Bens

HYBRID/LONDON (2 days onsite)

Designing Services that protect National Security

Valid SC Clearance or past SC Clearance is a must

We are working with a trusted global innovator with over 100,000 professionals in 50+ countries, helping them find a Lead UX Designer with GDS experience to deliver transformation within a design studio dedicated to humanising complexity. The studio combines Strategy, Technology, and Design to create meaningful, inclusive, and impactful services that improve lives and systems.

The Role

As a Lead UX Designer , you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping public-facing services across the UK government. You will lead end-to-end UX delivery in agile, multidisciplinary teams, ensuring that the services we design are inclusive, accessible, and aligned with user and business needs.

You will work across Discovery, Alpha, Beta, and Live phases , leading the development of digital experiences that meet GDS service standards . From mapping user journeys to producing high-fidelity prototypes, you will guide clients and teams toward evidence-based decisions. You will also help define and maintain a consistent UX strategy across products and ensure design intent is preserved through development.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead UX design from discovery through to delivery, championing user needs and shaping intuitive, accessible public services
• Plan and conduct user-centred design activities such as contextual research, usability testing, journey mapping, and service blueprinting
• Collaborate with service designers during discovery and design phases to align UX with broader service goals and end-to-end journeys
• Create wireframes, flows, and high-fidelity prototypes to support stakeholder alignment and enable early design sign-off
• Work closely with Business Analysts and Tech Leads to translate requirements into usable and scalable design solutions
• Facilitate co-design workshops, ideation sessions, playback reviews, and internal critiques
• Define and maintain a consistent design approach across the product or service, ensuring alignment with the overarching UX and service strategy
• Collaborate closely with developers during build, clarifying interaction patterns and design intent to support smooth implementation
• Ensure all solutions adhere to accessibility (WCAG 2.2) and usability best practices
• Contribute to or help establish design systems and standards that support consistent delivery at scale
• Support GDS service assessments and advocate for users in governance and decision-making
• Mentor and guide junior designers, providing feedback and support for their growth
• Represent UX in client meetings, agile ceremonies, and internal leadership forums

What experience you'll bring:

Eligible for SC clearance (British citizen or equivalent, with 5 years of continuous UK residency)

• 8+ years of experience in UX, digital product design, or interaction design
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in UX Design, Interaction Design, HCI, or a related field
• Solid experience of Salesforce
• Strong portfolio demonstrating UX leadership across large-scale digital services
• Proven experience delivering to GDS service standards in central or local government
• Ability to design intuitive experiences through wireframes, flow diagrams, IA, and high-fidelity prototypes
• Proficient in tools such as Figma, Adobe CC, Miro, etc.
• Strong understanding of accessibility (WCAG 2.2) and inclusive design
• Practical knowledge of HTML/CSS to support collaborative handoff with developers
• Experience working in agile environments with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience contributing to or maintaining design systems in a public sector context
• Familiarity with design governance and GDS service assessments
• Experience working with policy, legal, or content teams to shape service journeys
• Exposure to prototyping tools or low-code platforms used in government delivery
• Understanding of public service KPIs (e.g. cost per transaction, conversion, channel shift)
• Comfortable with AI-enhanced design tools or auto-layout systems for rapid prototyping
• Experience designing services for vulnerable or underrepresented user groups
• Knowledge of mobile-first design and platform-specific guidance (e.g., iOS HIG, GOV.UK Design System)