Senior UX Designer

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.

• 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.

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 layout.
• 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.

• 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

Parallax is a digital transformation consultancy with innovation at its core. We solve complex problems and build leading digital products for local and national SMEs, international clients and blue-chip corporations.

We transform ideas into opportunities, using cutting-edge user experience design, technical innovation, and our passion for digital excellence. We don't shy away from projects that seem too out of reach, unachievable or even impossible. We welcome the challenge and deliver success.

We're always questioning the norm and understand the risks of the latest and greatest and know how to deliver large digital projects at the forefront of technical possibility with a balanced approach to risk mitigation. Our clients trust us to deliver a transformative user experience married with technical excellence across various projects and industry sectors.

Our team features some of the most talented minds in the industry. We work hard to stay on top of the newest innovations and always strive to be the best at what we do.

We believe that our brand, people and behaviours are a powerful platform for social change in the tech industry. Our mission is to become the clear choice for all employees, candidates and clients, bringing out the best in people and giving everyone an equitable chance to find fulfilment in their careers. Parallax values and respects all differences in people (seen and unseen) and encourages applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences, abilities and backgrounds. If you are not 100% sure that you meet all the requirements but believe you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and use the application questions to tell us about what you would bring to this role.