Senior UX Designer

Parallax Agency Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design consultancy in Leeds seeks a Senior UX Designer to join their Experience Design team. This role involves leading discovery workshops, running user research, and collaborating across functions to create impactful solutions. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years’ experience and strong skills in Figma and user-centered design. Benefits include private medical care and flexible working options.

Benefits

Private medical healthcare (Bupa)

4% matched pension

Hybrid working (2 days in the office)

Flexible working

Quarterly company Hack Days

25 days annual leave + bank holidays + up to 5 loyalty days

Enhanced maternity leave (12 weeks full pay)

Enhanced paternity leave (3 weeks at 90% salary)

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in UX, UI, or digital product design, preferably in agency.
• Strong experience with Figma, including design systems.
• Experience working in agile teams and contributing to iterative delivery.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead discovery workshops, aligning on objectives and KPIs.
• Define user journeys, IA, user flows and feature prioritisation.
• Mentor mid-weight and junior designers for continuous improvement.

Skills

5+ years’ experience in UX, UI, or digital product design

Strong experience planning and facilitating discovery workshops

Hands-on experience running user interviews and usability tests

Strong experience with Figma

Ability to translate insight into clear IA and user flows

Strong visual design sensibility

Tools

Figma

Job description

Senior UX Designer

Department: Design

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Leeds - Hybrid

Compensation: £45,000 - £60,000 / year

Description

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.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

• 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.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

What you need to have:

• 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.
• 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.

Nice to have

• Experience designing within low‑code/no‑code environments (e.g. Webflow).
• Experience within a digital/tech consultancy.
• Exposure to analytics, experimentation or data‑driven optimisation.
• Experience in IoT, AI‑assisted products, or AI‑assisted design.
• Experience on branding projects.

Benefits

• Private medical healthcare (Bupa)
• 4% matched pension
• Hybrid working (2 days in the office)
• Flexible working
• Quarterly company Hack Days
• 1 professional development day per month
• City centre office
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + up to 5 loyalty days
• Team events
• Enhanced maternity leave (12 weeks full pay, followed by 27 weeks of SMP)
• Enhanced paternity leave (3 weeks at 90% salary)
• 2 streaming services or gym membership subsidised