Lead UX Designer

Futura Design Ltd; Coventry; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design firm is seeking a Lead UX Designer in Coventry to shape the user experience for automotive interfaces. This contract role focuses on collaborating with UI designers and development teams to produce intuitive designs that meet legal and usability standards. Ideal candidates will possess significant UX design experience, strong stakeholder management skills, and proficiency in industry-standard tools like Figma and Adobe. This position is set with an umbrella pay rate of £52.54 per hour, offering an exciting opportunity until March 2026.

Qualifications

• Excellent UX design process experience gained in agency and corporate settings.
• Understanding of legal, accessibility and usability standards and requirements.
• Automotive design experience preferable.

Responsibilities

• Take creative direction, brand principles and design vision and develop these into user experiences across multiple digital interfaces.
• Develop wireframes and interactive design prototypes.
• Work closely with UI Designers and stakeholders to ensure design solutions are user-centric.

Skills

UX design process experience

Stakeholder Management

Usability testing

User research methodologies

Proficiency in Figma

Tools

Figma

Adobe

Job description

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.